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A staff closed from work an hour to official closing time and  the manager recommended one week suspension without pay and if there should be a repeat, his appointment be terminated. As the officer incharge of staff discipline, I pleaded with the manager that the punishment was excessive and advised that he cut two hours off the staff pay. When the manager refused, I suggested final warning which the he rejected. My final ruling was that nothing should happen to the staff.

Once my immediate boss wanted to sack six of our best salesmen and asked me to give him information with which to achieve his scheme. I told him, I was not going to provide the information he needed because they were previllaged and confidential material. He held it against me so that when he was to stand for me, he looked the other way. The joy of my decision was that those group of managers stayed with the company for another sixteen years minimum and were each promoted at least twice.

I was scheduled to attend an industry wide interactive forum with NSITF but before I could leave, there was an industrial relations situation that must be handled immediately. An expanded management meeting was called and the meeting ended long after the end of the interactive forum. To my surprise the Executive Director issued me a query for failing to attend the industry wide interactive forum with NSITF. MY response that my failure was predicated upon the expanded management meeting which held that morning was rejected. When I called the attention of the Managing Director to the situation, he said it was a departmental affair.

When the Board Chairman approved an official car for my office, a "powerful" member of management added another car to frustrate mine. Eventually when the two cars were purchased, I chose the Nissan and the other manager chose the Toyota but the "powerful" management member reversed the choices. We rejected the "power show" and the cars were abandoned for two months until the board chairman came and overruled the management. What happened can only be described as "wrong show"