Re:How a UK company handled an offensive private joke
by DanBC on Friday March 22, 2013 @09:11AM
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> "do you know we can get them sacked, just like that. How can they possibly believe that they can get away with racism like that?
Well, that's just not true. Employees have some rights in the UK. It depends very much on the contracts they have, and how long they've been working there, and also the type of insults made.
In a work situation this kind of banter is not acceptable; but the handling of it seems to be pretty lousy.
The blog author is uses remarkably offensive language throughout the post - much worse than the "joke" that was told to him - certainly that kind of attitude in the work place would be basis for disciplinary procedure. It's hard to find any sympathy for someone using such language while they're complaining about the language used by others.
It's also weird to call this single incident 'bullying' - perhaps there was other stuff going on, or perhaps it was the start of a campaign, but on its on it's not bullying.
Well, that's just not true. Employees have some rights in the UK. It depends very much on the contracts they have, and how long they've been working there, and also the type of insults made.
In a work situation this kind of banter is not acceptable; but the handling of it seems to be pretty lousy.
The blog author is uses remarkably offensive language throughout the post - much worse than the "joke" that was told to him - certainly that kind of attitude in the work place would be basis for disciplinary procedure. It's hard to find any sympathy for someone using such language while they're complaining about the language used by others.
It's also weird to call this single incident 'bullying' - perhaps there was other stuff going on, or perhaps it was the start of a campaign, but on its on it's not bullying.