Criticism of Johan Derksen is mounting after his comments about the culture of fear at WNL. The analyst from Today Inside was criticized on Wednesday evening by Meryl Ek and Ulkay Golsen. A day later, Angela de Jong wasn’t nice either.
Derksen didn’t seem too impressed with former WNL employees, including Eva Jenek, Ros Maugeri, Leonie ter Braak and Meryl Westrick, who came out Wednesday about broadcaster Bert Huisjes’ behavior. “Those people who are still complaining about it eleven years later should have said something at the time. And who are they? That little girl from Tockerland blowing up balloons somewhere. For example,” Dirksen said of Leonie Ter. Barak: “So it didn’t work.”
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Huisjes allegedly told the employee who returned from maternity leave that she had to lose weight. Olcay Gulsen and Meryl Ek were shocked, but Derksen said, “Do you want a pig like the one in the picture?” Jolsen said Derksen “couldn’t say that” and presenter Wilfred Jenny was also critical of him. “Whoa, man, what is this?” Later in the broadcast, Derksen told a joke. The alleged pregnancy discrimination — where female employees who became pregnant were not given contracts or were “penalized in scheduling” — didn’t seem to bother him either.
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In her column for Algemeen Dagblad De Jong wonders if Derksen has empathy. “Perhaps this is what I find most sad about the constant discussion of inappropriate behavior and all those old-timers who stubbornly refuse to pull their heads out of their hairy asses. Bert Huysges, Fons van Westerloo, Loïc Hermans, but also Johan Dirksen who of course once again got involved in these ‘Tutges’ “Wednesday evening on Today Inside – They’re all parents. I always wonder if they would have reacted differently if their children had been the target of sexual bullying stuck at work in the 1950s. Or do they simply not have an ounce of empathy?” You write.
Watch the discussion at the table on Today Inside in the video below.
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