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It speaks volumes about the work culture. If I was your son I’d be seriously considering if this is where I wanted to work.

That's toxic!

Exactly,that's how it goes in places like that.

Horrible.
Just remind your DS that today it's his friend who failed the interview, tomorrow it will be him for not loading something properly.
Advice him to find another job ASAP!

That sounds like a terrible place to work. If it's linked to a major supermarket chain, could consider anonymously leaking to their social media/ to the press?

GDPR. You are only allowed to use things for the purpose for which they were intended. Given it’s likely that managers and supervisors also use the canteen you can’t just blame it on some idiot employee. It should have been immediately removed and an investigation about how it got there undertaken. It’s horrendous behaviour.

I would say that there's a breach of data protection. Info should only be used for the purpose it was gathered for. In this case it's being used to humiliate. However at 18 he is an adult so I don't think that it's up to his parents to do anything. I would imagine that there's a law suit here.

Definitely a bully culture in that workplace,I've saw it before towards apprentices and to someone with a disability and funnily enough it was nearly all male workplace.to be fair the younger guys weren't into that it was a couple of old dinosaurs that kept it going.

This is awful behaviour on the company's part . Your son would be putting his job at risk if he reported it so he's right in just keeping his head down. Hopefully gain experience and move on .
He could try to take a photo of it and highlight it in his resignation if he gets a new job.

How horrid.

I've never worked for the local supermarket but have been in the staff break room to get a cup of tea when volunteering with the food bank.

It needs to be dealt with as it's showing a very nasty culture. Evidence needed first and then action.

I wouldn't call it banter if he doesn't work there. At my previous job in a warehouse someone stuck something on my back and took a photo. She showed me it and asked if she could put it on facebook. I said yeah whatever, I was aware of it. Someone else did something similar but didn't tell me, I told them to take the post down as its not banter when I'm not involved. It's laughing at me not with me.

This is horrendous! I would raise hell!

Get your son to photograph the picture etc and send it to the press and shame the hell out them

I'm not sure if it breaches data protection, if it's just a photo.

My understanding is that an individual has no rights over their image if taken in a public place, like the street or in a crowd. But in this instance the photo was taken for ID purposes and the individual does have rights over it.

Horrendous. I'd also be approaching local news outlet anonymously. Poor lad

Your son should look for somewhere else to work. What an awful culture.

How awful, and how unbelievable they think they can get away with it in this day and age.
I would try to send an anonymous tip-off to a local paper to expose the workplace.

Horrible and pretty sure a breach of GDPR. They had no business keeping his personal data, which includes photos, when they had not employed him. And using it in this was is not acceptable. Maybe worth getting legal advice/going to Citizen’s Advice.

This would be the most delicious outcome as it would also prove the lad not to be any kind of dunce but to be perfectly savvy and competent thank you very much.

They'd very much have egg on their faces.

The employer has shown what they are like. Believe them. They will be like this to your som and his friend. Get him to gain experience and then move on. You and he don't need him to be working in a toxic environment.

@Megifer Yes, you are right. The photo was only to be used for the interview process, not to be shown to everyone after they were rejected for the job and mocked. It should have been in a private file, and possibly deleted after a set number of days. It breaches employment law I think? The guy could probably seek compensation, or threaten the legal route.

That’s awful. Agree that it should be reported but your son needs to be careful he’s not linked to the reporting of it if he wants the job. Good for him for seeing it as something that is wrong and not going along with it.

If they allow this sort of behaviour, god knows what else they'll allow.

My advice would be to get a photo of it and leak it anonymously. Either by "name & shame" in social media or by emailing the store's corporate office.

I’d get a photo of it to DSs friend who can then make a complaint and hopefully get some sort of gesture to apologise, I’m thinking money.

Pictures fall within gdpr as they can identify the individual.

I'm a bit out of date now with the regs but I'm fairly sure this could be a reportable breach as it could negatively impact his "rights and freedoms" e.g. knowing how common it is for people to move to similar companies it could affect his future employment opportunities if someone recognises The Dunce Interviewee (yes, its a stretch.....would be for the ICO to decide)

Yes, that's what I was thinking. This is in no way an appropriate use of someone's personal data.