Jim has been a loyal and friendly postman in Wiveliscombe 27 years.
The Post Office have sacked him for not applying his van hand brake fully, it rolled away and cracked the light lens.
The charge is gross misconduct which is unreasonable , nobody was hurt .
Please sign his petition to get his job back, it is Christmas, the time of good will to all .
toby1234abc:
Jim has been a loyal and friendly postman in Wiveliscombe 27 years.
The Post Office have sacked him for not applying his van hand brake fully, it rolled away and cracked the light lens.
The charge is gross misconduct which is unreasonable , nobody was hurt .
Please sign his petition to get his job back, it is Christmas, the time of good will to all .
What miserable ■■■■■■■■■ Not suprising though, its par the course these days with ‘career-professionals’ dotting i’s and crossing t’s.
In his defence. Did he receive correct and continued driving assessments and training… 
I would describe his action as negligence, but falling short of gross negligence, which generally requires an indifference to, or blatant disregard of a workplace duty. Unless he was on his final written warning for other matters, then I’d say it was unfair dismissal.
Probably sacked for something that could have happened, would people still support him if his van had crushed a small child to death ? to me its total negligence, a driver should always make sure the parking brake is applied…full stop.
if his van was a transit connect then he has my sympathies. they have a known fault where the handbrake is applied firmly and will hold the van fine and then half a hour later when the disks have cooled off it will roll. it has happened to me and several of my colleagues i was lucky and it rolled into a kerb. several other people havent. there is now a memo going round every full months reminding us to pull the handbrake on as hard as we can, turn the wheels into the kerb and leave it in gear…
truckyboy:
Probably sacked for something that could have happened, would people still support him if his van had crushed a small child to death ? to me its total negligence, a driver should always make sure the parking brake is applied…full stop.
But it didn’t crush a small child to death. He made a minor error which resulted in a light lens being broken. Have you never made a mistake at work? I know I have.
Sometimes we get mail delivered at our house in St Andrew’s Road which is addressed to the same numbered house, but in the next street, St David’s Road. Somebody made a mistake, it happens. We just walk round and post it through the right person’s letterbox, we don’t think anybody should get the sack for it.
Thanks Harry for posting the link,the support from the community has been great, they don’t think it is worth losing a job .
On another subject about parking fines, I overheard a parking ticket issuer, telling a car driver, that they didn’t have to pay the fine .
Its just an invoice ,ask them what losses they have suffered and ignore dodgy threatening letters designed to scare people to pay up .