If your curious how a company can fire the person who cuts up the vuvuzela and not the one that hooks it up "to a compressed air pump" Feel free to ask here:

http://www.nedtrain.nl/nl/173/contact/contactformulier.html

Let us know if you get a response.

By S. | July 8, 2010 2:04 PM

The company should be made to buy him a new one.

By Henk Luf | July 8, 2010 2:23 PM

It's amazing what people in the workplace here have to put up with. The person should have never gotten fired, first of all. The person with the vuvuzela should have been told to play with his toy at home. Team spirit is a fine thing, but there is a time and a place. My boyfriend (Dutch) worked at a company a number of years ago and had a male colleague with long hair. Another employee came along behind the guy with a pair of scissors and cut a chunk out of it. Had that happened in America, the person doing the cutting could/would have been charged with assault with a deadly weapon (had the injured employee decided to press charges - long hair takes quite a while to grow and then there are hairdresser charges to try to fix the messed up bits) and rightfully so. My boyfriend said there was no use to complain as nothing would be done anyway. I'm afraid to get a job here. I could end up deaf, bald or WORSE!

By Cathy | July 8, 2010 2:54 PM

This man is a hero. :)

By AMB | July 8, 2010 3:00 PM

The an deserves a medal, not his cards.

By Jamie Anderson | July 8, 2010 3:04 PM

Those irritating horns should be outlawed, you can't hear the singing over the awful noise at the games. The guy that hooked the horn up to compressed air should be castrated and the man fired should be promoted.......

By AJ in the USA | July 8, 2010 3:15 PM

yet i bet they didnt do anything about this unhealthy noise pollution and the fact they are a pain in the backside, i hope he sues them

By adhd | July 8, 2010 3:43 PM

They should honour this handy hero with a statue! Let's saw all those noisy and unneccessary hooligan-@$#% to pieces...

For real: football madness scares me to bits. This mass hysteria gets to dangerous levels and people seem to loose there common senses.

By Olaf | July 8, 2010 3:49 PM

I really miss the United States and worker's rights when I read things like this. Sacked on the spot? For not being 'one of them', obviously..football is a mass-marketed cult gone mad.

By W. Carres | July 8, 2010 4:33 PM

How rediculous is the management that fired someone for a silly prank like this.I think the manager should be sacked for making a stupid decision.

By Declan | July 8, 2010 7:35 PM

hahahhaaa.. i did! just have to wait and see the response!! dont think they have the guts though, they should be mortified for their actions!!!

By W | July 8, 2010 9:04 PM

You can get sacked for cutting up a 10 cent vuvuzela, but not for getting too "stressed" to come to work? This is a crazy country.

By Jane | July 8, 2010 9:58 PM

I trust after the "orange" of the moment, NedTrain will rectify their idiotic decision. I support the team but hope that those who have other interests---like their hearing---can also be respected!

By Gabriel | July 9, 2010 9:02 AM

I broke wind through mine, the cat has never been the same since.

The vuvuzela is also very good at controlling projectile intestinal disorders ensuring everything gets in the bowl.

As for sawing them in half, its an option I suppose.

I would luv to see the official text on his works file!

By M | July 9, 2010 9:36 AM

Perhaps Nels should have taken stress leave because of the noise, Jane!

By CW | July 9, 2010 10:12 AM

Don't even get me started on THAT, Jane...ha. I just read on this site within the past few weeks that a larger portion of small/home-based businesses are owned by immigrants, not Dutch people. Been there, done that in America. Now THAT'S stress!

By Cathy | July 9, 2010 10:18 AM

Come on... We are just celebrating. It is a matter of just another game before the vuvzela's ending up in the bins. Bear with it please

By Lisa | July 9, 2010 10:46 AM

One of the comments on the Haarlem Dagsblad website regarding this story suggested that the sacked employee should file a complaint with the Health and Labour Inspection because hooking a vuvuzela up to pressurized air pump causes a sound level of over 120 dB and it's illegal to be submitted to a sound level like that in the workplace.

I hope Nels does.

By CW | July 9, 2010 11:12 AM

The manager who did the firing should be sacked. Such an apparatus is clearly illegal for work safety reasons. The poor fired worker is a victim of managerial mobbing. NedTrain should be held responsible for openly allowing occupational hazards and then punishing those who refuse to tolerate such abuses of workplace safety.

By C. H. | July 9, 2010 2:27 PM

Hi Jane, Cathy and others,
Just one small remark: this particular incident happened in one particular place. That doesn't mean that the entire country (the place is huge you know) is crazy. People are crazy, not countries.
AJ in the USA, for example, wants to have a man castrated for pulling off a prank at work. That doesn't mean that the entire USA, or in fact AJ himself, is crazy, now does it?

By Chris | July 9, 2010 4:20 PM

If you want to know the reason of this "music instrument" google "metthew Delooze Articles - The Winner it all etc." You will be surprised...

By bm | July 9, 2010 9:13 PM

I'm not saying the whole country is nuts. I'm just surprised that certain things are allowed in a place that is supposed to be set aside for work. If the company chooses to have a TV or whatever for the employees to watch a game, THEN it would make sense to have the horn allowed. I'm just suprised that someone got fired over trying to get rid of a nuisance and do his job, which is what he was there for and paid for to begin with. Perhaps the guy should have been told to buy the other guy another horn (to be kept at home) and that should have been the end up it. The boss over-reacted.

By Cathy | July 10, 2010 12:16 PM

This is totally insaine.
My Dutch colleague (all young men) drive me up the wall sometimes. Sometimes I find myself playing "The parent".
Unfortunately for this poor guy management appears to be one of the children.

By Karen | July 11, 2010 7:46 AM