A Japanese bus driver who took three decades at work will not receive his pension of $ 84,000 – everything because he decided to slip a few dollars into passenger dishes. THE Mainichi Note that in February 2022, the anonymous driver slipped an invoice of 1000 years of a passenger, worth around $ 7, in his pocket instead of depositing it in the prices processing machine. A month later, the Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau dismissed the driver after examining surveillance images and decided that he was not entitled to his retirement funds. The man continued and lost by the Kyoto district court, but he then won his case on appeal, the upper court concluding that the penalty of losing his pension was excessive, since he had reimbursed the small quantity he had taken.
But Thursday, the Japan Supreme Court restored the original decision, quoting other times that the man had been in trouble at work, including to smoke an electronic cigarette while he worked, although there were no passengers on his bus at the time. The man had also initially tried to deny to take the $ 7 when he was confronted for the first time with his supervisor. “Each of the bus drivers works alone and manages public funds,” a manager of the Kyoto public transport office told AFP. “We have taken very seriously that the embezzlement of funds linked to this area of our work was held. If our strict measures were not accepted, then our organization could become reckless and this could cause the erodation of public confidence.” (More stories in Japan.)
