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Poor Sue Dennison - fondly and well-known within SABC corridors as ''Tannie Sue'' and who worked at the SABC for 20 years - left the SABC's building in Auckland Park in tears and utterly unconsolable! In an unbelievable and horrible case of deplorable conduct, the bumbling and incompetent SABC forgot to tell Sue Dennison that she has to retire at the end of July. And get this: to add massive insult to injury the SABC sent poor Sue Dennison an email to tell her that the public broadcaster will absolutely not be paying her for the two days in August that she worked.
Sue Dennison who's been working at the SABC for two decades in the sales and marketing division where the SABC earns the broadcaster's revenue, was not aware that she had to retire. Several SABC workers continue working after retirement age and she received no notification. This Wednesday she got an utterly pathetic email from the SABC's human resources department saying, ''Hi Sue. This serves to advise that your last day in our service was 31 July 2010 as you reached normal retirement age during July. We erroneously did not inform you and did not do the processing. Please be aware that the SABC will not be in a position to pay you for the 2 days you worked in August 2010.''
Sue Dennison had to leave the building without any apology, without any goodbye, without any dignity and that after two decades of labour at the SABC. No wonder that Tannie Sue was sobbing uncontrolably with distraught SABC staff shaking their heads in shock at their own corporation who's incompetent human resources department is flagrantly breaking South Africa's labour law as it broke Tannie Sue's heart!
I'm awaiting word from SABC on this arrogant and unbelievable yet totally true travesty and to hear if the SABC plans to do anything about giving Sue Dennison a proper goodbye and who is responsible for this major slap in the face of a dedicated and longtime employee in the South African broadcasting biz.
