Comments on: Extreme office politics

By: Manuel

Manuel — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:42:18 +0000

Mr. Borg had this burning desire to get even…..

By: mat555

mat555 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:21:38 +0000

After reading all the other comments…if revenge is the motive here, than its not a matter for psychiatric intervention.

By: mat555

mat555 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:14:46 +0000

DCC – I can understand your reasoning completely!!! But still, the so called ‘bullies’ exist at all the strata in society and not only in the school environment. EVEN at many work places!!! I repeat that one cannot agree with the way the person in question responded (always assuming this is the case), but this could be a lesson to all of us in all work environments: A joke is only a joke when it ends as a joke! No one can justify aggression, but from the little I know, there was aggression from more than one part

By: Adrian Borg

Adrian Borg — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:36:03 +0000

I got some more information from a guy who works there. This is NOT a case of bullying at all. The guy who threw the fluid had been sacked over TWO years ago for some pretty serious matters and somehow he seems to have blamed Bonello who had nothing to do with him in reality. He went to the office to get revenge (why now?!!!) and found Bonello. It also appears that not all the screws are fitted tightly in all the right places either (get what I mean?)

By: Steve Grech

Steve Grech — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:11:14 +0000

I used to pass from near John’s garage on my way to work a couple of years ago.

I did see a person being bullied by his work mates next to John’s garage.

I wonder if it’s the same guy?

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:03:02 +0000

Sorry I didn’t understand this fully. Is Mario Bonello the Bully and Glen Borg couldn’t take it any longer and set him alight? Or is it that Glen Borg is actually the bully and overdid it?

By: Meerkat :)

Meerkat :) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:44:15 +0000

It’s because he had just issued this directive

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By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:32:06 +0000

Mat555 – right, who was being bullied? I’m getting confused here. Was it the one who got set alight or the one who threw the lighter fluid? I don’t know the ins and outs, but it seems to me that chucking lighter fluid and then a match is a little bit…..creative. I could understand the angry reaction of picking up the nearest chair/ornament and taking a swing at the provocative person, but setting him alight? That’s the kind of thing that is done to disobedient wives and daughters by their parents and siblings in the more backward parts of Islamic society.

By: amrio

amrio — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:05:00 +0000

Hi all! I’m back (but only for a couple of days). Strange incident, this. For one, I can’t fathom what lighter fluid is. Was it BBQ lighter fluid? It can’t be cigarette lighter fluid, as some are suggested, as that turns instantly to gas. Whatever it was, it must have been surely a premeditated act; if someone ticks you off in the office, you throw a chair or a desk or a screwdriver or something at him, not lighter fluid…

By: A Camilleri

A Camilleri — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:39:20 +0000

Could it be the action of someone who had been the underdog for years until some straw broke the camel’s back?