Co-Workers Frustrated Because Of A Gorilla In Their Workplace. The lady is a senior for data analytics.
Dolls are fun and all. However, a doll can also bring a lot of outrage towards a person. Susan Fourie, an executive SARS member, learned this the hard way. The SARS executive is looking at a disciplinary procedure. This is after the Fourie used a gorilla doll to show that a section of the organisation has been working poorly.
The lady is a senior for data analytics. She has been implicated for an unsuitable attitude and going against the organisation’s code of conduct. SARS says the woman has made some of the other fellow workers feel as if they have been victimised against because of their race.
The event happened when her section was asked to help with some of the operations of the trade statistics sector. This is after a lot of people were ending their duties on that side. The lady says that she did offer the toy to some of her black co-workers. She says that she used the gorilla toy to show that their section of the organisation was putting a lot of pressure on her.
The event happened in August 2017, it was then originally announced a few months after. It was then examined until a disciplinary procedure was started this month. The disciplinary procedure is still ongoing. According to Sunday Times, Thato Koloane, and three other co-workers were summoned to Sarah Fourie’s workroom, where the lady gave Julio Sabu a gorilla and said it shows the pressure that their department was giving her.
Apparently Julio refused taking the doll and she then went on to offer it the gorilla to Thato Koloane, who also refused to take it on the part of Julio. “After the meeting. When we were about to leave, Susan asked us whether we are leaving the monkey. I took the monkey upstairs. While I was walking past my colleagues’ desks, some of them saw me holding the monkey and inquired about it. I told them what happened. I left the monkey on top of a table in an open area.”
When Victor Munyama was given the position of trade statistics he saw a hesitation of the trade statistics employees in communicating with the data analytics employees. He then discovered the reason why they were seperated. He felt as if the co-workers were dehumanised.
by Alexandra Ramaite
