SFU shuttle driver fired after calling traffic control worker 'unbelievably beautiful'
A Simon Fraser University shuttle bus driver has lost a freedom-of-speech appeal in court after he was fired for stopping on the job to tell a construction flagperson she was beautiful.
In April 2024, Robert Glen Harrison, who was employed by Luxury Transport, was driving a bus when he stopped, opened the door and told a traffic controller she was “unbelievably beautiful” and should be a model and photographed, according to a recent B.C. Supreme Court decision by Justice Maegen Giltrow.
Harrison admitted he made the comments but maintains there was nothing inappropriate about it and “he meant it as an act of kindness to someone standing out on the road on a rainy day.”
The flagperson, however, took issue with the comment and reported it to SFU security, who took her statement and another from a witness.
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