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If you’re a supervisor, please ensure you listen to your employees’ complaints. You don’t want this kind of things happening at your workplace!
A frustrated baggage handler (who also suffers from untreated depression) at Changi Airport was arrested on Monday because tampered 286 of passengers’ luggage bags wrongly (on purpose) and sent them to different destinations!
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For what happened way back in 2016, 66 year-old Tay Boon Keh was sentenced to 20 days of jail for 20 charges of mischief and another 266 similar charges.
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Tay had admitted to tampering the bags wrong on purpose because he was frustrated that his complaints went unnoticed. He also felt he was ill-treated by the company.
When Tay was working as a baggage handler, he was responsible for aligning checked-in luggage bags and ensuring they were properly placed on an X-Ray machine for security checks, before they were loaded onto the planes.
However, luck was not on his side as the senior citizen was assigned to an X-Ray machine that broke down several times a day. That led him to carry the bags to a functional machine, which was about 6 meters away for screening. Imagine walking 6 meters back and forth carrying luggage bags…. Poor Tay!
When his complaints to the supervisor wasn’t getting anywhere, he decided to cause a blunder so that people will take him seriously.
After about 20 emails from passengers who were equally frustrated, the mischief came to light and the airlines had to pay out more than $ 42,000 as compensations to the affected passengers.
If only they fixed the X-Ray machine…
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Defence lawyer Tang Jin Sheng and Lok Vi Ming asked for the court to grant an order of conditional discharge, where the accused is discharged with the condition of not re-offending within a year, or a fine of S$10,000.
We hope Tay gets proper help him cope with his depressive disorder. To those of you who need help, please do not hesitate to call Befrienders at 03-7956 8145
Anyway, what do you think Tay could have done to get his way in fixing the X-Ray machine?
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