We came across an interesting anti-dismissal tactic this week which kept an errant staff member in his job.

Earlier this week, a trader was spotted by TV viewers in Australia watching pictures of scantily clad Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr on his work PC monitor.

As Australia’s 7 News was carrying out a serious interview on Aussie interest rates with a senior Macquarie private wealth professional, client investment manager David Kiely was spotted carrying out a serious analysis of Ms Kerr’s recent GQ photoshoot.

When he was tipped off by a colleague, he quickly closed down the screen and gave a guilty look at the camera. Naturally the clip was put on YouTube and caused somewhat of a stir in the banking community.

Financial market website Here is the City started a ‘Save Dave’ campaign, as there were rumours that Kiely may have been set up by an endearing colleague, who sent him an email with the pics attached, knowing full well that he would open them in full view of the TV cameras.

Hereisthecity.com started their campaign because, according to the website:

1. He seems like a nice bloke

2. The pics weren’t hardcore

3. He has suffered enough

4. There’s just too much political correctness in this world anyway

Readers were encouraged to send emails of support to [email protected]. “Please put the narrative ’Don’t fire David Kiely’ in the subject bar,” the site urged.

And the upshot of all this? The global response was so great that Macquarie Bank issued the following statement: ‘He will remain an employee of Macquarie. Macquarie and the employee apologise for the offence that he may have caused.’

So the moral of the story is, if you’ve committed a minor indiscretion at work, which has been seen by hundreds of thousands of people, don’t call Ghostbusters — call HereistheCity.com.