A few days ago I was on customer-site, installing some tin and updating software.
All fairly routine and mundane, but while I was waiting for some Microsoft updates to complete I started chatting to one of the accountants there (an old friend and former work colleague from my time working at CSC), and how he was very much under pressure now that one of his colleagues had been suspended due to alleged homophobic comments in the office.
He said that the guy had been helping a new placement person get up to speed with the Sage accounting software. They both got on quite well for the first 2 or 3 months, but it all started to fall apart when she started asking him personal questions, mostly on his views of LGBTs.
This guy is in his early 60s and didn’t agree with any of it, and as a consequence some of his remarks were as you might expect rather offensive.
Nothing else was said for a couple of days until he was called into his manager’s office and told about his suspension due to a complaint by “a work colleague”.
Rather shocked by that he had to leave the premises more or less straight away. The guy who told me this also said that he was absolutely certain the “work colleague” was this new placement bint because she was very happy to see him suspended for his “old fashioned views”
Turns out she was recording the entire conversation between the suspended guy and herself on her phone, and that she was leading him on even though he was totally unaware he was being filmed – entrapment in other words.
This is only a small company of about 25 employees, and I don’t know anything about their HR policies. And neither do I know if the suspended guy will be able to defend himself and have his job reinstated. I don’t even know if any of what I was told by the accountant is true either. But it really is a fucking liberty to be coerced in that fashion by some calculating cunt who wants nothing better than to see someone fired for expressing a view.
I am so glad I am self-employed, and rarely get involved in any kind of personal conversations for precisely that reason. Say anything out of turn, and you could end up recorded on film, and ultimately on social media as the resident bad guy with your life ruined!
UPDATE – Seems that the suspended guy has got in touch with a lawyer and is going to challenge the decision, suggesting that the alleged recording is a breach of trust and illegal (given that this happened on company premises without company approval or knowledge.).
Nominated by: Technocunt
… if that kinda shit came my way they’d need a new category to add to the scale of ‘going postal’!
Stitch me up … everybody dies!
FAAFO
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Covert recordings are usually inadmissable in disciplinaries as evidence. If anything the cunt doing the recordings should be out on their arse. The old guy would have them over a barrel at tribunal.
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Glad i’ve been self-employed for most of my working life.
I hope the bitch gets taken to court.
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Update to my original nom here.
Seems that the young snitch bitch was threatened with suspension while the internal investigation continued, especially with the threat of lawyers from the suspended accountant.
However, she’s been absent from work for 3 weeks now, even before the suspension was invoked. And she hasn’t given any explanation for her absence.
Moreover, it would seem the alleged comments she posted on her Twitter account, have now been deleted, either by her or Twitter mods.
The accused accountant is still on 80% full pay, even though he is suspended. But has not been allowed back into the office or WfH until the matter is closed..
Being only a small business of 24 people they now find themselves in a legal minefield given that they don’t have a legal advisor on their payroll.
It would seem therefore, that any woke cunt with an agenda, can truly fuck with a small business that doesn’t have the resources to protect itself from legal allegations.
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