A driver of ours has just left. We were good work mates, and now we are no longer professionally associated, we can now be friends on Facebook.
My work colleagues and boss are all great, top notch, but that doesn’t mean anything I do at the weekend/evening is fit for them to see!
To be honest I hate the fact that it matters. I’m not good at being discreet, but for some reason we have to be. In my perfect little world people wouldn’t take stuff to heart, but they do, so you can’t publicly call someone a ■■■■■ Shame.
Anyone that posts anything they can’t substantiate is a fool. Would they be a fool twice? I doubt it.
It reminds me of that young lass who was given a job as a junior police commissioner, only for some journalists to search her fb account, and find she liked to ask mildly racist rhetorical questions when drunk. She lost that job, and got a good dose of public humiliation too. She was only 18 if I remember rightly. Was it fair? Probably not. Just like the rest of the world.
The policy I use with facebook etc is: if you wouldn’t ring up the 200 plus people on your friends page to tell them every aspect of your private life, Don’t put it on Facebook. Saddos.
F-reds:
It reminds me of that young lass who was given a job as a junior police commissioner, only for some journalists to search her fb account, and find she liked to ask mildly racist rhetorical questions when drunk. She lost that job, and got a good dose of public humiliation too. She was only 18 if I remember rightly. Was it fair? Probably not. Just like the rest of the world.
Thats the whole problem with faceache twitsRus and such pointless things, the silly things done and said by youngsters, even in their cups, are there for ever for anyone to find and ruin their lives with many years later.
All subject to fashion and the hymn sheet of the day, whats normal light hearted banter one day can be a major crime the next.
TJ82:
Yep we have it written into our contracts about using social media and potential for gross misconduct issues arising from it
Yep same here thats why i dont say who i work for unless its in a pm to other members ,infact a driver got finish last month for putting racist comments on facebook,usual case it was a friday night and he was ■■■■■■ up
Rikki-UK:
For those who think this is all new… a certain well known family owned haulier was known to sack people who talked about the company on the CB, and in fact banned them from being used in company vehicles for many years. It all stemmed from when the owner fitted one in his Jag and was travelling down the A1 listening to his drivers slagging the company off… and revealing just who the company was pulling for and where they were going, all details the MD thought was company sensitive information. That was 25+ years ago
Yorkshire company?
Know one or 2 that used to ban the use of CBs. There used to be some BS talked on them mind
Glen A9:
You mean their employer found out they had doing work during their weekly rest period?
It doesn’t really matter how they found that out, they would be breaking the law if they allowed them to work without sufficient rest.
Although the example of some selling goods during their rest periods (on ebay or at car boot sales) would depend on whether it was being done regularly with the intention of making a profit, or whether it was a one-off to get rid of some unwanted household items.
How many drivers would sit on their hands for 2 days a week preserving their energy for the driving week ahead!!
While a leisure activity like mountaineering or running a marathon could be more physically demanding then a second job like working in a call centre on a Saturday, we all know that the law requires a rest period to be “freely disposable time”.
If you’re going to do another job at the weekend and stupid enough to make your main employer aware of that, whether by Facebook or by other means, then your likely to get sacked.
My Mrs sacked one of her office workers, she was on her third warning for excessive sickness with no doctors notes.
Then she asked for three weeks holiday but was refused due to other staff bring off, so she went off sick.
Then a few days later she pops up on my Mrs’s timeline paragliding in Greece along with a rack of other pictures and comments.
Stupid woman
F-reds:
It reminds me of that young lass who was given a job as a junior police commissioner, only for some journalists to search her fb account, and find she liked to ask mildly racist rhetorical questions when drunk. She lost that job, and got a good dose of public humiliation too. She was only 18 if I remember rightly. Was it fair? Probably not. Just like the rest of the world.
Thats the whole problem with faceache twitsRus and such pointless things, the silly things done and said by youngsters, even in their cups, are there for ever for anyone to find and ruin their lives with many years later.
All subject to fashion and the hymn sheet of the day, whats normal light hearted banter one day can be a major crime the next.
Best avoided IMO.
No different whatsoever to a forum. Always makes me laugh when people dismiss Facebook and Twitter as a waste of time, on a forum. It’s what you make it. Nothing more nothing less
About three years ago I had a blog running on a marine site and I said a couple of hometruths about the Irish twit who owned the boat, one of the followers lived very close and told him everything I put up, not all bad. My next due working spell for him did not happen and THAT WAS THE BEST THING HE EVER DID
Radar19:
Some places will question why if you don’t have a Facebook account.
Really? The agency I work for think I don’t have a computer! They asked me for my e mail address so I gave them my house address, told 'em I don’t know what an e mail is.
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Why the hell would you need to voice an opinion or what you had for your breakfast…lunch or tea plus pictures on a social network still beats the hell out of me…
And yes if you wanna slag the company you work for or the ppl within then your playing with fire and expect to get ya fingers burnt
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