At Least Some Good Has Come Out Of This Sorry Affair.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2382881/Family-got-dinner-lady-fired-accidentally-served-child-gammon-emigrating-Muslim-country.html

[emmie]

those are some interesting points if true about the husband, is that why they are moving do you reckon..

[naomi24]

For anyone who isn't happy here, the obvious answer is to move to a place where they will be happy. Seems this family have taken that option.

[jno]

now the dinner lady says she didn't know Muslims can't eat pork. Good grief. So it does seem some good has come out of this affair, as you say: an ignorant dinner lady unsuited to her job will have to seek work elsewhere.

That is what you meant, isn't it?

[emmie]

did you read all of it,
the dinner lady says even if she is reinstated she doesn't want to work there, sounds about right quite frankly.

[emmie]

so unsuited she has been there 11 years. Perhaps it's more to do with the amount of children having so many different dietary needs, and having to cater and remember them all. A mistake and a costly one.

[emmie]

so both the woman and the child's mistake, that is all it was, ridiculous

Alison Waldock, 51, has said she forgot the dietary needs of seven-year-old Khadija Darr when she asked if she wanted roast gammon, and the youngster said yes.

The headteacher of Queen Edith Primary School spotted the mistake as the youngster was about to eat her lunch and swept the plate away from her.

[Gromit]

I suspect the reason for emigrating has nothing to do with 'this sorry affair' and more yo do with the regulatory authorities closing down his dodgy businesses two years ago. The decision to move will have been a financial one, not to do with wanting more sunshine or avoiding Gammon and chips.

[sp1814]

"At Least Some Good Has Come Out Of This Sorry Affair"

Hmmm...

[jno]

the company suggested it wasn't the first time she'd made a mistake. So it would not be surprising that she doesn't want to work there any more. Let's see what arises out of any hearing for wrongful dismissal, rather than taking the Mail as gospel.

[emmie]

rather shot himself in the foot i would have thought

The move comes after Mr Darr’s recruitment firm was closed down in June when he was found to be working as a company director illegally.

Following an investigation by the Insolvency Service, he was banned from holding company directorships after he was caught pocketing over £500,000 owed in tax in 2008.

His firm Interecruit (UK) went into liquidation after Mr Darr, 36, ‘diverted’ money owed to the taxman in VAT, income tax and national insurance to another of his companies.

The nine-year ban was imposed in February 2011 but in May this year he was found to be operating a similar company named Interecruit (GB), which supplied agricultural workers.

[emmie]

i wonder is everyone so perfect in your world Jono, mistakes happen, if it was life threatening, like a known nut allergy, then one suggests she would have been sacked on the spot.

[jno]

you don't know the history of this woman, emmie, and the Mail isn't about to tell you, so best to wait and see what comes from more reliable sources.

[Gromit]

How can someone be a dinner lady for 11 years and not know that muslims do not eat pork?

[jno]

she says her employers didn't train her properly, Gromit. A sad state of affairs and I'm sure it will be a vital point in her dismissal claim.

‘We could have had training on this, but they did not do anything.' Scandalous.

[emmie]

you don't see the idiot double standards here, you are also quoting from the Mail. I did quote from another source.

[Gromit]

Exactly emmie,

The decision to leave this country is not as a result of his child being given Gammon, it is as a result of yhe authorities closing down his dodgy businesses. They are moving in a August (now) so I suspect the decision was taken a long time ago.

[emmie]

suggest the family are moving because of the crook of a husband. If she did something wrong, then she has been dismissed.

[emmie]

gromit, why then did they not go a while back...

[jackthehat]

Perhaps it was more to do with identifying which of the children were which when it came to dietary requirements?

As jno, I will reserve judgement on the incident until all the facts have been released, although it certainly appears that the emigration of Mr and Mrs Darr to UAE will be no loss to this country.

[sp1814]

Ha gromit.

Go on...tell us all about the migration plans of a family you don't know.