I took over a team that included a bolshie, lazy, strident woman who had a reputation for being being the very worst sort of barrack room lawyer.

I had to reprimand her a number of times over the space of six months, with the result that it was heading towards dismissal proceedings.

So I wasn’t surprised when, after meeting her for her annual review, she made a formal complaint about my conduct during the review meeting, She claimed that I propositioned her, offering to give her a good review if she slept with me.

I was carpeted by my boss, who didn’t attempt to get my side of the story and simply ranted about how I’d let the side down, how bad this would look, blah, blah, blah.

I simply sat quietly and smiled at him, which I knew would infuriate him as he was a control-freak prat. When he was nicely red-faced and finger wagging, I smiled even more and said “Perhaps you’d like to hear this?”

I took a digital recorder out of my pocket, popped it on his desk and hit “play”. Yes, I’d recorded the entire meeting with the lying cow.

There were a few grumbles from various people about the “legality” of my covert recording (to which I replied that if it hadn’t been covert, she wouldn’t have been caught out), but the result was that she quit a hop, step and a jump ahead of disciplinary action.

Oh, and my boss (and various other prats) were very, very wary about what they said to me after that because they never knew if I was recording or not…

£11k is ridiculous, a bollocking for comparing him to Bin Laden would have been about right (but he DOES look like a prat).

I replied, ‘you are only saying that because I am White-what would you say
if I was a black officer’.

He was stunned…

We will never move on past prejudice until we all FORGET
what we look like and focus on how we behave.

The HR guy needs a gaffer with balls (remember them?) to
give him a dressing down big time.

Or the bobby to say feck off moron..

Anyway, I reckon he would have done vastly more good for the cause of genuine minorities everywhere if he`d simply said: “Oi you white honky trash, just ‘cos you can`t tell the difference between an International terrorist and a sworn officer of her Majesty don`t take your inadequacy out on me. Find yourself another job!”.

Equally I`d like to see the Muslim officer demand the guy got a b*ll*cking without having to get a payout on the side. Let normal disciplinary procedure sort out the rudeness and inappropriate comments, without trying to make it out to be more than it is.

Do you really want to be treated as an equal by your colleagues because you ARE equal? Or because it might cost your employer a bundle of cash if they don`t?

2. An asian male made a complaint of racial abuse against his white neighbour. When informed that enquiries ahad been made at the address of another asian male who had seen the incident, but reported it differently, the asian ‘victim’ replied. ‘Don’t believe him, he’s just a stupid P*k*.

So, not just the racists are racist.

Whenever he needed a replacement secretary, he’d ring the agency and demand they send him a “blonde with big tits”.

Somehow, he always got away with it.