An Australian father’s ‘dream tree change’ was humiliatingly destroyed when he was sacked over his weight after transferring his household 3,000km – regardless of his new boss seeing him earlier than hiring him.
Hamish Griffin posted to social media concerning the ‘heartbreak and embarrassment’ of his termination simply ‘two hours’ into a brand new function on the Big4 vacation park at Strahan, Tasmania, which left his household ‘homeless’.
Mr Griffin claimed he had solely been within the function two days when his employer, the park proprietor, requested him to assist transfer a settee, then ‘ripped’ into him, saying he wasn’t ‘bodily’ succesful earlier than dismissing him.
A obese Australian father’s ‘dream tree change’ was humiliatingly destroyed when he was sacked over of his weight after transferring his household 3,000km – regardless of his new boss seeing him earlier than hiring him
Hamish Griffin posted to social media concerning the ‘heartbreak and embarrassment’ of his termination simply ‘two hours’ into a brand new function on the Big4 vacation park at Strahan, Tasmania, which left his household ‘homeless’
‘I do know there are individuals in a lot worse monetary positions than us, however primarily we are actually homeless, unemployed, with a devastated little boy with no faculty to go to this 12 months,’ Mr Griffin mentioned.
He claimed his new employer, the proprietor of Big4 Strahan Vacation Retreat, justified the choice by speculating that he wouldn’t be capable of mow a garden or climb a ladder, and that any ‘affordable’ individual’ would agree.
Mr Griffin additionally claimed the park proprietor ‘insulted’ him by claiming he’d hidden his ‘medical situation’, which he defined was being ‘overweight’.
The park’s house owners confirmed in an announcement present to the ABC that they believed Mr Griffin had withheld a medical problem.
Mr Griffin later acquired authorized recommendation that the notion of a medical problem with out proof could possibly be grounds for a discrimination case.
Mr Griffin, his spouse Hazel and younger son Freddie, had simply arrived in Tasmania after promoting most of their possessions to make the epic journey from Cloncurry, in north-west Queensland the place he managed vacation parks for eight years.
He claimed he had been bodily able to performing all duties required to do his job over that point.
‘Carrying a couple of additional kilos, in my thoughts, is just not going to inhibit me and hasn’t inhibited me for the final eight years to hold out my duties as a supervisor of a park,’ Mr Griffin mentioned.
He claimed he had not been given a good probability ‘to show I’m succesful’
As a substitute, his new employer terminated him ‘as a result of he thought I couldn’t do these items, and may trigger him legal responsibility via harm as I’m too fats.
His preliminary publish to informed ‘household and mates’ he had ‘dangerous information’.
‘It’s with quite a lot of heartbreak and appreciable embarrassment that I’ve to advise that the dream tree change to the Apple Isle for the Griffin’s has changed into a nightmare … earlier than it’s even begun.’
Mr Griffin claimed he had solely been within the function two days when his employer, the park proprietor, requested him to assist transfer a settee, then ‘ripped’ into him, saying he wasn’t ‘bodily’ succesful earlier than dismissing him
Mr Griffin claimed he had been bodily able to performing all duties required to do his earlier job in the identical business
‘I nonetheless suppose that is only a dangerous dream I’ll get up from, however the actuality and unhappiness have actually set in.’
Mr Griffin instructed he was investigating authorized motion over his ‘outrageous’ sacking.
‘I had accomplished an interview through video for the job, and had despatched him hyperlinks to [an online] photograph, to which he replied “what a stunning photograph of you all”,’ he mentioned.
Big4 Vacation Parks at Strahan confirmed the sacking.
The park house owners informed the ABC that Mr Griffin’s sacking was because of a office well being problem based mostly on considerations Mr Griffin would hurt himself at work.
Additionally they claimed he had withheld a well being situation from employers.
Each day Mail Australia approached Big4 Strahan Vacation Retreat for added remark.
