30 November - As bad as each other?
I believe that today Mr. Nick Hollier, long time loyalist to Bexley Council,
leaves its employ possibly on retirement but good news whatever the reason. My
favourite letter from HR Director Nick Hollier was suffixed with the comments that may be read below.
I had very carefully constructed
a complaint referencing the lies told about me by his Legal Team Leader. Confirmed as lies by four
Councillors from both Parties. It was difficult to
complain about a liar without using that word but I was pleased to use the word
lying only once - and none of its derivatives.
Mr. Hollier was not happy about what I’d said and based on the one use of the
word ‘lying’ threatened me with Unreasonable Customer Behaviour and being
vexatious, hostile, abusive and offensive.
If you followed the link above you will know that my complaint was none of those things,
nor anywhere close. I would also remind readers that the police regarded the lies as
so serious that they sent a file to the Crown Prosecution Service and
specifically named Lynn Tyler as being one of several Bexley employees including
the Chief Executive who had likely committed
Misconduct in a Public Office.
Good riddance!
Things do not appear to have improved since. At an Employment Tribunal not
very long ago, Ms. Lorraine Barlow
another Head of Corporate Human Resources at Bexley Council impressed the judge
with her lack of efficiency. Notes that were lost or maybe never existed were mysteriously
found when that became convenient.
This is remarkably similar to what happened in the Tyler case above. She had
produced alleged witness statements which were untruthful and denied by their so
called signatories, who never actually signed them.
The Tribunal concerned discriminatory pay levels in the surveyor’s department and the claim was not upheld but
the judgment
(PDF) includes a few items of interest.
Like Bexley Council spent £55 million on its Temporary Accommodation Project. In effect doing the reverse of
what the Housing Associations have been doing recently.
