Tekkie Town probes ‘abuse’ of staffer

National shoe retailer, Tekkie Town, has instituted disciplinary processes after a supervisor in one of their Nelson Mandela Bay stores allegedly humiliated a saleswoman, ordering her to stand in the store window with a degrading note stuck on her. Last Friday, an employee known only as Lee was laughing with a colleague when manager Thozama Spielman instructed her to write a note reading “I don’t listen to my supervisor and now I’m in the naughty corner”.

Then her hands were apparently tied behind her back and she was ordered to stand in the display window. The 18-year-old initially thought it was a joke but passers-by started taking photographs and laughing at her. Patriotic Alliance councillor Marlon Daniels said she was “humiliated beyond measure”. He said “her hands were tied behind her back, a page was stuck to her stomach with humiliating words on it and her mouth was taped”.

Tekkie Town confirmed the matter was being investigated.