A SECURITY guard at the town’s job centre has left his job after posting inappropriate comments on Facebook while at work.

An anonymous tip-off to the News revealed that the employee, Paul Wheeler, had posted a series of damning posts – which have since been deleted – dating as far back as April of last year when ‘checking in’ at the centre in Fitzwilliam House, Skimped Hill Lane, ridiculing those using the service.

The ‘checking in’ option on the social media website allows people to let others know their location and share their thoughts.

The source, who wished to remain unnamed, said she had reported Mr Wheeler – who was employed by external security services company G4S secure solutions – after stumbling across his comments on Bracknell Job Centre’s Facebook page.

A scathing remark made in January of last year, read: “Stephen Hawking holds down THREE jobs. You won’t get a job because you’re stressed... or something”, while a similarly derogatory comment, made in December stated: “Brilliant! A member of the public has come in dressed as Jabba the Hutt.

"Oh wait, no he hasn’t, he’s just hideously obese”.

Further condemning posts in September and October read: “People worried about a zombie apocalypse? In my world shambling, uncommunicative, brain-dead people are called long term unemployed”, “Just had some woman coming in coughing up her lungs for 30 minutes now she [sic] outside sucking the life out of a number six.

Might be a good time to give up I think” and on October 30: “Jesus some of the people that’s been in today you’re [sic] think it was Halloween today”.

Following the General Election on May 7 when the Conservative Party won with an overall majority, Mr Wheeler wrote: “Looks like more benefit monkeys will have to start looking for work. Wonderful. #5MoreYears”.

It is unclear how long he Mr Wheeler had been employed at the centre or if he worked elsewhere.

A spokesperson for G4S Secure Solutions initially confirmed a member of staff at Bracknell Job Centre had been suspended while an investigation took place.

However, it then became clear Mr Wheeler was no longer with the company.

Account Director for G4S secure solutions in the UK, Alan Thresher, said: “There is no place for anyone in our business who uses foul or insulting language about the people and places we are entrusted to look after.”