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Originally Posted by DarkFish
"this nature"? He said he hates this Middleton gal, and called her names. So what? I hate our beloved Her Majesty, Beatrix, by the grace of God, Queen of the Netherlands, princess of Orange-Nassau, princess of Lippe-Biesterfelt as well. Yes, I call her names as well. I'd like her better dead, and I'd even condone a lethal attack on her and her family. Here you go, it's on the Interwebz. Now should I be fired (don't have a job anyways  ) for this? Aren't we all entitled our own opinions? As long as you don't show them in public and keep them private, and of course don't let them interfere with your work, I don't see why your employer should have anything to do with them. Where is this world going if you can't even hate someone without losing your job? |
Well, i kind of agree with you, but...
there is such a thing called code of conduct.
I'm sure that when you sign up pr are hired as a Palace Guard you are agreeing to a few conditions.
At my job, when i signed on the dotted line i also had to read the Employee Handbook and sign off on that too. The Employee Handbook and the Enterprise Bargaining Agreement states, and i quote:
"Instant Dismissal----
Whilst not limited by the following, conduct of the nature stipulated will justify instant dismissal:
- Unauthorised disclosure of confidential company information to an external party----
- Defamation of the business or any of its team members
- Verbal or physical abuse of any team member or member of the public.
Now i picked out the ones that pertain the most to this situation.
As you can see, when you sign up for a job, you also agree to be bound by the Code of Conduct, to uphold the business's name and values and that you give a good impression of the business that you work for.
So, we may think that it's ok to slander and to simply give our opinions to the public or our our friends about the place where we work, but, there are and there will be ramifications of that, especially if your company has code of conducts.
I'm sure the Palace has similar, if not more rigorous criteria for working for them.
If you are going to be that stupid, posting on a public social network site about how crappy your employer is or how crappy the job is or how crappy the life is that you've been dealt, which has the company's name mentioned alongside of it, be prepared to lose your job!
NOTE:
I forgot to mention, in my companie's code of conduct, there is also a clause, several actually, about posting on network sites anything about your work place.
This is also frowned upon and if doing so, will be disciplined.
I say, if you don't like your job, or the people you work for, quit and work somewhere where you are happy.
Don't be a loser and whine and whinge on a social networking site!
