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Press December 9, 2006 SINGAPORE A TEMPORARY employee at a Singapore company has been fired and another is being investigated for posting videos of themselves "horsing around" in the office on the popular video-sharing YouTube Web site, local media reported Saturday, Dec 9. The two were initially reprimanded but StarHub on Tuesday fired Terence Tan, 25, the Straits Times newspaper reported. The company is considering disciplinary action against the other employee, who was not named. Company officials were not available for comment on Saturday. Chan Hoi San, StarHub's head of human resources, told Channel NewsAsia that Tan was fired "due to misconduct in our office premise." Other staff were told to remove any office videos they might have posted online. The two clips, 2 to 4 minutes long, showed the two young men in company T-shirts playing around in the office after hours with a small anti-stress ball while others watched. They were posted in October but taken off two weeks ago at StarHub's request, the Straits Times reported. Tan, who has worked as a promoter at the company since July, said he was told he had tainted StarHub's image and reputation. "I thought the matter would be over after the scolding," Tan was quoted by Channel NewsAsia as saying. "I just posted the clips online because we thought they were quite funny. ... It's not like I wanted to tell the public that StarHub was a slack place; nothing of that sort." Channel NewAsia reported that the clips had generated 460 hits before they were removed from the site. |
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