No dressing down for banker in TV supermodel email blunder
Published on Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 14:20 | Source : Reuters
Updated at Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 15:26
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No dressing down for banker in TV supermodel email blunder
An Australian banker who became an internet sensation after he was caught on live television viewing images of a scantily clad supermodel on his computer will keep his job, Macquarie Bank said on Friday.
An Australian banker who became an internet sensation after he was caught on live television viewing images of a scantily clad supermodel on his computer will keep his job, Macquarie Bank said on Friday.
"He will remain an employee of Macquarie," the bank said in a statement. "Macquarie and the employee apologise for any offence that may have been caused."
David Kiely, who works in Macquarie Private Wealth in Sydney, opened emails on Tuesday containing pictures of Kerr, unaware a colleague behind him was doing a live television interview about the Australian economy.
The incident became a YouTube hit and sparked an online campaign that urged forgiveness.
The financial website "Here is the City News" (http://news.hereisthecity.com/) set up a "Save Dave" page encouraging readers to email the public relations department of Macquarie Bank to save Kiely's job.
The web campaign listed four reasons why Kiely should be allowed to keep his job: he seems like a nice bloke; the photographs were not hardcore; he has suffered enough, and there's just too much political correctness in this world anyway.
Macquarie is known in banking circles as the "millionaire's club" because of the high bonuses earned by some of its staff.
