{"id":165722,"date":"2025-12-03T08:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/165722\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T08:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:31:06","slug":"executive-leaves-bank-after-mock-terrorist-prank-at-work-christmas-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/165722\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive leaves bank after mock \u2018terrorist\u2019 prank at work Christmas party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">An anonymous employee reported the incident to gossip account The Aussie Corporate, which shared the allegations on Instagram yesterday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">A photo booth at the function reportedly \u201ccaptured a highly disturbing image involving an executive and a junior colleague involving a mock terrorist or hostage situation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">The executive was pictured in a kneeling position while a junior colleague made gun signs at them, seemingly acting out a captive-prisoner situation with a racial undertone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe situation was further compounded by the junior colleague wearing a towel fashioned as a head dress, which was understood to be an attempt to depict a terrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Nine executives work alongside Raja at the financial institution, which was created out of a merger between NAB and Cuscal in 2021, according to news.com.au.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Raja said recruitment for the departing managerial role has already begun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An anonymous employee reported the incident to gossip account The Aussie Corporate, which shared the allegations on Instagram&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5813,74,1975,85,1643,108265,138,18399,3938,7973,101,108264,3556,111,139,69,108266,4762,61122,45604,108267,5843,8445,4576],"class_list":["post-165722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-acting","tag-after","tag-at","tag-australia","tag-bank","tag-bankowned","tag-business","tag-christmas","tag-executive","tag-leaves","tag-left","tag-mock","tag-national","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-offshoot","tag-party","tag-photographed","tag-prank","tag-scenario","tag-senior","tag-terrorist","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}