Dudley Council Stress Pigs Letter

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The Dudley Pig saga has resurfaced thanks to a letter from Councillor Pat Martin, Cabinet Member for Personnel. It reads

"I see that despite the statement I put out at the Dudley Council meeting some weeks ago, to the effect that pigs had never been banned from the council, you chose not to publish that fact. Thus we are still getting letters about the pigs affair that never was.
If anyone would like to walk round any office in the Council House they will see stress pigs on most people's desks. It's a good thing they are for stress. We have had enough since the ludicrous story got put around and embellished by all the media because it was funny.
The only pig that was removed was from the office of the employee involved. End of story. Except that does not make a story does it?"

Council meeting

Councillor Pat Martin was reported as telling a full council meeting:

"I fully support the actions by management to respond to the concerns from colleagues following established and approved procedures. However I'm satisfied these procedures need to be reconsidered to make them compatible with the current law on what's deemed to be offensive in the workplace. Therefore I've ordered an urgent review of the procedures."

After the meeting she said only the benefits department was affected by the request but admitted the policy was 'very strict' and that officials would look if they were 'too aggressive'. She said that under the current rules, staff could even be asked to remove a football scarf if colleagues claimed they were offended.

I'm glad we've got that cleared up Pat and I hope the benefits office workers won't have to spend too much time squeezing the stress pigs in the run up to their Christmas break, or should that read their Winter break?

Oh well - dum dum, a-diddly dum.