You’re no better than me, cleaner told HSBC bank boss in her parting shot

Julie Cousins, with her son Joe, said a manager had been aggressive and cruel
Julie Cousins, with her son Joe, said a manager had been aggressive and cruel

A cleaner who was subjected to a dressing down by her boss at HSBC has gone viral with a note she wrote on her last day, telling the other staff “be kind — because you are all no better than the cleaner”.

Julie Cousins, 64, who cleaned bank branches for 35 years, left a handwritten note for a manager at HSBC whose “aggressive and cruel” words prompted her to quit. Her son Joe Cousins posted the letter that she wrote to her “awful manager” on social media after she walked out of her job.

The cleaner told her manager in the message that she was leaving “after the way you dressed me down in the office”. She went on to criticise her boss for being