Snowman’s head kick… The British Environmental Cleaners was fired for this reason [영상]

In the UK, an environmental sanitation worker who was collecting trash was fired for breaking a snowman made by a child. As if he was hitting a punching bag, he smashed a snowman and accused him of’concentric destruction’. However, there is a sympathy that the dismissal is too harsh, and the Independent and others reported on the 1st (local time) that there is a petition for reinstatement.

On the international petition site Change (www.change.org), a petition titled’Please give back your job to the environmental sanitation worker’ appeared. About 6500 people signed the petition as of the afternoon of the 1st Korean time. The number of people joining the signature continues to increase.

What happened to this environmental sanitation center until it lost its job overnight?

A three-year-old boy from Hereford, England, made a snowman about 2 meters high with his family on the 24th of last month after a heavy snowfall. But two days later, on the 26th, when the snowman was damaged, the child was greatly disappointed.

Accordingly, the child’s parents checked the closed circuit (CC) TV video. In the video, an environmental sanitation worker who came to collect garbage was confirmed to destroy a snowman. He blew the snowman’s head off with a kick, continued to hit and smash it, eventually destroying the snowman. After that, I left the site in a work car.

The child’s parents informed the local council as well as the company to which the cleaners belong. “The sanitation worker is a contractor’s employee,” a spokesman for Congress said. “I was very disappointed with his actions. I will never hire him again.” Accordingly, the environmental sanitation center was fired from the company. The child’s mother said, “The child usually liked to say hello to the sanitation worker,” and said, “It’s hard to do that to the snowman of that child.”

However, as the story spread, there was a heated debate in Britain over’Is it the reason for firing?’ Moreover, as the personal history of the fired sanitation worker becoming a father soon became known, voices to restore him to work also increased.

In an interview with the local media, the environmental cleanser said, “I did so because I felt the snowman was disturbing when I was working at the time,” and said, “It makes no sense to lose your job just because you have snow that melts anyway.” He said, “I apologized to my child’s family through social media (SNS) for this, but they blocked me,” he said. “I will soon become a father. I have a family to feed me.

In an online petition asking for his reinstatement, an article was posted saying, “He worked at risk during the corona19 pandemic. Is this the price? There were also opinions, “It is very unfair to fire him. He has a family to feed him,” and “It is irritable to fire him for kicking a snowman.”

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