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A CITY of Sydney parking ranger has been reprimanded for not issuing enough fines in a humiliating and demeaning email that was copied to eight of his colleagues.

The ranger, who appears to have been deliberately singled out for ridicule, was warned by a team leader that his fellow workers were into double figures for fines issued in March, while he had issued only one.

Parking rangers were told by the same team leader, via a group email in April, that their lack of fines would be considered in their next performance review — pressuring staff into issuing more, despite City of Sydney’s policy of having no quotas or targets for the number of fines rangers must issue.

The fresh evidence of poor management practices within the City’s dysfunctional ranger unit emerged as it was confirmed that the suspected suicide death of City parking ranger Leong Lim, 62, had been referred to WorkCover



so what are the Unions doing about this then greg???

having read the previous reports of the City of SYdney s abuse of power.... you will have noted this has been going on for years...

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2015 at 5:41pm:



yes you have.. however I do not know the man personally .. but I would think all these rangers are in some union or other...and you claim you work in this area...then it saddens me you do not send someone to talk to these people and deal with this on going problem...

I am sorry greg...its you job to help these people not mine...I have no links or permission to talk to the workers where as the unions do have.......

get someone to Sydney to deal with something that is bad very bad....I dont understand why you expect me to do something....if I was in a union yes I would I would be on the doorstep.. how hard is it to find a parking ranger and get some details...if they are in a union whos job is it to set fire to their bums and tell them this has to stop....

ye gods you do have a problem sitting in front of a computer sending links to help dept......that obviously want to do everything from a sitting down position....

the fact that a man killed himself....isnt reason enough....

its shocking...if you are in a position to help then do it.. dont tell me to do it... you are in a far better place to help than I ever will be..... I am just highlighting the disgraceful way our workplace is going...and getting worse..........I tell you what it was never like this when I was in it full time... thats for sure.

cods wrote on Jun 30^th, 2015 at 6:02pm:



as an example of bullying, it is rather lame.  it was some rude schmuck abusing someone.  Bullying is when it continues time and time and time again.

but just like every time we tackel any other social problem, the first thing we do is widen the definition as far as possible so as to totally destroy the meaning.  sexism, racism, child abuse...  they are all defined so broadly now that as stand-alone terms they are near worthless.  Now bullying is about to join the growing list of terms which on their own and with context, are meaningless.

longweekend58 wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2015 at 6:16pm:



that is so not true... it was done in front of his peers..

just like the second example... 8 people received that email...

I am horrified that this type of abuse is now being looked at as lame...

for anyone who is humiliated with an audience... its anything but lame...lucky you you have never been in that position I wouldnt wish it on anyway...

its a power thing that says I AM BETTER THAN  YOU... never forget that...how dare anyone treat someone else like that knowing full well that person cannot do a thing about it...

its cruel.

cods wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2015 at 6:38pm:


thats not bullying. it is abuse and humiliation.  we have all these different words for a reason.  Having seen you inability to understand 'range of offence', I can see why you find 'range of meaning' so difficult.

longweekend58 wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2015 at 6:16pm:


Utter tosh...

Bullying is about power and control, so a demeaning letter/email from a BOSS is in fact, bullying, there is a power imbalance. I realise you may not recognise things being unbalanced though....

Cods, I suspect you won't like my point of view on this, but, none the less here we go....

To my mind, this is part of the end result of the systematic white anting, undermining and dismantling of the union movement.

It seems to have escaped you that if these people are not union members then quite simply the union cannot help them by law. A further point to that is this, the union should not help them either. Those paid up union members, particularly the ACTIVE ones are not in a financial position to carry the load for those who do not pay their union fees for whatever reason. That is simply inequitable.

NO bullying is wrong and yes bullying should be stamped out and addressed without pause.

That said, it is not simply a UNION issue and it is patently erroneous to simply use a case of bullying to slag of at the union movement. The Union movement presently is hardly a UNITED bunch of workers - it is, sadly, more often than not a dodgy organisation managed from afar that receives money from a bunch of, mostly, disinterested people who believe that the money they pay entitles them to some kind of magical protection. Being a Union member rather involves being pro active. Further, the union is not a separate thing to your work, it is either part of your work or you are fooling yourself thinking you have protection....

The other problem is, bullying is a management problem as well.

If there is a culture of bullying in any work place, then that has either been allowed to develop out of managerial ignorance or facilitated by managerial design. Either way, bullying does not occur because of the union movement in a work place nor is the union movement solely responsible for addressing it.

Workers need to get back to the very basics of looking out for each other. A line from a very recent mental health promotion springs to mine, workers need to adopt the "I've got your back" mentality and, until they do, it will be workers with minimal resources vs the MAN with more resources and, isolated from any form of unionised help, protection or support.

Phemanderac wrote on Jul 4^th, 2015 at 8:10am:



I was about to say something similar....longy and I never agree on anything... which is fine

but how anyone can call this anything other than bullying I do not know....

some people do not deal with POWER correctly....they forget how to treat others.....you could almost call it a form of domestic violence....work place violence if you like...

there is NO EXCUSE for it...my daughter was humiliated in front of her peers at a meeting.. by the so called manageress.......she almost went into shock.......I wouldnt wish it on anyone....

they are cowards..all of them...and I keep saying it GETTING WORSE....


I do not have a problem understanding BULLYING Mr Longweekend.....

maybe the fact you usually have some demeaning  put down in your replies to others....

.gives me a good example of why you think being humilated in front of people... has nothing to do with BULLYING.