Employer not to blame for employee's actions

A SENIOR GERMAN EXECUTIVE at Daimler Trucks and Buses (China) Ltd has reportedly lost his job after he allegedly insulted a Chinese citizen in a car parking dispute in Beijing. Beijing Times commented on Tuesday:

In an online post which subsequently went viral, the German driver was said to maneuver his car into a parking space in a luxury residential compound when another car was trying to back into it. He was then said to have insulted the Chinese driver in vulgar, racist terms and used pepper spray to disperse people who had gathered and grown angry at his remarks.

Although local police said that the two parties involved had reached an agreement through mediation, that the German auto giant has reportedly fired the senior employee concerned suggests it too found some wrongdoing on the part of its employee.