Be Careful What You Post on Facebook

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  1. Con

    Conan Troutman Well-Known Member

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    Conan Troutman, Jun 30, 2019
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    He wasn’t sacked for what he posted.
     
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    Conan Troutman Well-Known Member

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    What was he sacked for?
     
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    Two wuidwa week tops union
     
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    The advice I'd give is, don't post on social media. Full stop.
     
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    What’s he on about?

    ‘I couldn’t appeal because I couldn’t afford to pay to join a union’.

    You don’t need to be in a union to appeal. Anyone can appeal, it’s simple employment law. Unless he’s telling porkies about the details of his termination then I’d say he’s got a pretty good case for wrongful dismissal.
     
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    Care to elaborate? The article seems pretty certain that's what he was sacked for
     
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    I would suggest from the article that, unless there are other circumstances in his employment history, then he had grounds for appeal.

    And he doesn’t need a Union to assist, they’ll just **** it up!!
     
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    Came off 'facey' two year ago, best thing I ever did. Waste of time and energy
     
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    Sweeping statement. If he’d been in the union they would have at least defended him and if he’s no other offences may have got off with a warning or less. Unions look into precedence etc. Asda are not known for being union friendly so to speak. But employees have indeed been well defended and had punishments overturned due to union intervention.
    Ps Biggest problem is employees not being fully open about accusations to their union rep. On a couple of occasions mistrust has made the situation worse when the company have produced evidence that the employee is lying. Rep finishes up with egg on face.
     
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    Facebook can also lead to danger. Young lass at the Youth Club I worked at was about fifteen but
    posed as an eighteen year old in her "conversations " with a Southern lad on Facebook.

    She ran into the Club office with her mate saying there was a strange bloke asking for her outside.
    I went out to investigate. The " lad" looked to be around twenty five. He had a Mohican dyed bright
    purple, with piercings through his nose, lips and ears and was wearing Doc Martins.

    He had travelled up from Plymouth. I told him to wait whilst I went indoors to check where the girl was.
    I phoned her parents and arranged for them to pick her up in their car via a back entrance and take her
    home. I went back outside and explained to the bloke that he'd been duped and the girl was only fifteen.

    To his credit, he took it very well and thanked me for warning him. One of my leaders had to go past
    Westgate Station on his way home, so he gave him a lift. Thankfully, we never heard any more from him,
    but the incident proved to be an invaluable lesson not to egg people on or tell lies on a Facebook.
     
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    Conan Troutman Well-Known Member

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    Well I'm on tenterhooks waiting to find out what this bloke really did.
     
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    I work at asda. You are given a briefing quite regularly on many things. One of them is what is acceptable to post on social media as a asda colleague. If is profile picture or any part of his description references that he works for asda then wether you agree with his sacking or not, he has breached company policy. He would have been aware of this but breached the policy anyway. He has no one but himself to blame
     
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    Donnyred did the girl tell you she'd been pretending to be 18?
     
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    So what was he sacked for? I've read that story twice and all I'm seeing is he was sacked for breaching the companies social media policy by posting what he posted...
     
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    Looks like he did reference Asda on his profile.
     
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    It's quite simple - if your FB profile includes your employer - then you post something in breach of your employers policies, you're at risk of disciplinary action.

    It's quite simple; either tell the world who you work for and be an 'ambassador' - or don't tell the world who you work for and you can be as much of a dick as you like - it's all on you.
     
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    If you say you're English these days, you'll be arrested and thrown in jail.
     
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    From what I have read part of Asda Social network policy is if you have the company on your profile it can be classed as gross misconduct, if this is correct technically it would seem they ,say have charged him with GMC and found him guilty.
    That said if you had an excellent employee who made a genuine error and was showing remorse as he claims would you really sack him? There would be much more for Asda to gain by allowing him to stay and openly demonstrate how they are working with employees to educate on such things.
     
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    Don't disagree with what your saying but if you are a employee of a company that has these policies in place, would you risk it just for a couple of likes ?
     
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