You Can’t Get The Staff
‘ANOTHER day, another case of alleged bullying. This time it concerns Dr Edward Haughey, who lives at Corby Castle, and is described by the Telegraph as one of Britains richest men.
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His housekeeper Linda Heaton says that he reduced her to tears over a missing gold menu holder, pulled her up over plans to use silver salvers for the meat course, and became very stroppy about her choice of vegetable bowls.
He is also said to have shouted (at the top of is voice) at the fish man. (Thats a man who sells fish, not a piscine-human hybrid summoned up in a feverish opium dream.)
Anyway, Mrs Heaton is very upset, and cried at yesterdays employment tribunal. The paper reports that Haughey generally raged about standards of cleaning at the castle, and interrogated a cleaner over how often she laundered his underpants.
This last detail intrigues us. Was he complaining that his smalls were laundered too rarely or awful thought, but it is our duty to face it too often? We can only speculate privately, and we invite readers to do likewise.
Two years ago, Dr Heaton donated £1 million to the Conservative Party. This may or may not be significant.’
Posted: 17th, September 2003 | In: Broadsheets Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
