Good news for Shybu Antony

Article published: Monday August 31, 2009 
Things are looking positive for Shybu

Shybu Antony and Jeffrey Morgan, are now good friends after Mr Morgan gave up his job for Mr Antony.

Things couldn't get much better for Shybu Antony. The former BP Barnetts employee was left high and dry when his employer Leo Gao fled New Zealand with his partner Kara Hurring, aka Yang, and close to $4 million of $10 million desposited in error into their Westpac Bank account.

Mr Antony, a husband and father-of-two, is now working up to 30 hours a week at Shell Te Ngae after part-time worker Jeffrey Morgan gave him his job. The pair are now close friends and Mr Antony can't thank Mr Morgan enough for his kind gesture. Mr Antony was shocked and saddened to lose his job of more than three years at Barnetts, which was put into receivership after Gao skipped the country. Since May when Mr Morgan gave up his job, Mr Antony has been working mostly at Shell Te Ngae, but has also done a couple of shifts at Shell Fairy Springs and Shell Fenton.










Jeffrey Morgan (left) and Shybu Antony 

"Life is good. At last I got a job because of this gentleman," he said of his new friend, who he described as "a great man". Mr Antony said he, his wife Elizabeth Peter and their two children had visited Mr Morgan and his wife Grace twice since the job offer was first made.

Mr Morgan, 66, said he was now officially retired and was not missing work, although he was still trying to adapt to not working different shifts. Two weeks ago Mr Antony got another surprise when the Barnetts receivers paid him $2600 in holiday pay and wages he was still owed by Gao. Mr Antony thought he would never see the money, but said he'd had faith something positive would happen. "I am very happy," he said.

Both Mr Antony and Mr Morgan said they would urge Gao to come back and return the money. "I hope that his conscience will prick him," Mr Morgan said.

Source: www.rotoruadailypost.co.nz
http://www.rotoruadailypost.co.nz/local/news/things-are-looking-positive-for-shybu/3903542/

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