'I shouldn't be telling you this, but …': loose-lipped WorkSafeBC employee fights firing

Her WorkSafeBC subordinates claimed Taranjeet Manak often began sentences with the phrase “I shouldn’t be telling you this, but …”

According to a recent B.C. Supreme Court judgment, the long serving manager’s superiors agreed. Manak was fired in 2011 after she was found to have breached the organization’s confidentiality standards.

In a decision that provides a behind-the-scenes window into the stresses of life at WorkSafeBC, Justice Ward Branch rejected Manak’s claim for wrongful dismissal.

“If the plaintiff needed support, that should have been sought from people