to think I'll post what I like?

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On Facebook that is?

My DP started a new job and was meant to ne paid last Friday, of course the company messed this up and now nearly a week later they have finally said that he will get paid Tuesday, a week and half late.
We have rent due, bugger all food and absolutely nothing until he gets paid so we are not happy.

I posted on Facebook that I was fucked off that company have messed up and ranting about how we are meant to get by, the next thing I know DPs boss phone's bollocking him for allowing me to post this on my private profile.

I know now how they know about it a friend of mine also works for the said company and went running to boss man, she has been deleted.

I removed it to save hassle but AIBU to think WTF I can post what the hell I like on my profile and it shouldn't affect DPs job end of the day he isn't myboss and if ththey don't want me making the company look bad then they should bloody pay him on time not a week and a half late?

I think you are fine to say the facts - that you haven't been paid and that you are struggling to eat/pay the rent this week. I think it depends on how you said it though.

In all honesty it would benefit us if he did get sacked but it won't happen they just stop giving him hours but would still technically employed so has to be available tonwork therefore can't find anything else, he was promised set hours each week but turns out its a zero hour contract so they lied from the outset, not been happy since they offered the job under false pretences - whole other thread but maybe why I feel so annoyed.

"I can u derstand you wanting to rant, but do remember the internet is public information which hangs around forever. And even this thread is public so careful now. Next time, just post "fcty ffs fuckety fck" on fb and then DM your true friends the details."

Oh, god, don't do that- it's the most irritating Facebook thing ever. You then have to post "what's wrong?" And they have to post "I'll dm you, hun" and you look like an attentions seeker.

Just ring somebody up and rant at them over the phone.

He can be sacked because he's a new employee. I know an employer who sacked a new employee after their friend made a negative comment about them on FB. If you have under a year of service you can't claim for unfair dismissal so you can be pretty much sacked for anything (except for things like whistleblowing or discrimination).

I don't believe you are unreasonable, what is unreasonable is companies exploiting workers on zero hours contracts and then failing to pay them.

When DD was a baby, a girl i met at NCT kept ranting about her barrister husband's chambers and how she used to tell the clerk not to give him anymore cases as he was working too hard. I would cringe at her unprofessional interference.

Yes, you can certainly post what you like. We all can. Like we can stay up all night if we damn well please, and eat nothing but sweets if we want to. And then we have to deal with the rightful consequences of what we've done. It's called being grown up.

Its not unreasonable to be pissed off, but posting negative stuff about the comapny online could seriously affect their reputation.
Sorry, but you do sound childish.
Nowadays, theres nothing to stop the employer firing your DHs arse, then hiring someone who's wife CAN keep a lid on it. There are plenty of unemployed people out there.
It is your DH's problem, and HE needs to go to the company and request an interim payment and AFAIK as they messed up, they have to give him one.
Throwing your toys out of the pram on facebook wont help anything.

So if I understand the OP, she posted a bit of a rant about her husband's firm, not identifying either her DH or his firm by name? She was identified by a facebook "friend" who reported the issue to her boss?
If I have got this right then I think the OP has done nothing wrong. Isn't it similar to having a rant on here and another mumsnetter identifying the poster and running to their employers?
Fecking facebook. I blame everything on them, global warming, obesity, scabies..... I could go on but it's all down to those feckers at Facebook.

But if you have a grievance with a company - and it sounds like your dp has been badly treated - ranting on Facebook is an unconsidered response that will have done your case more harm than good.

Ooooh seeker my sister does that on fb all the time!!!!

In an age when democracy through political process is dying to be replaced with democracy at the till, people need to know which employers are fair trade or treat their staff fairly, who do not exploit or evade tax.

Yfronts exactly my point all I wrote was "how the fuck am I gonna make rent this month if won't pay him on time so much for being better off working"

Why did your DH not speak out about the zero hour contract before he signed it?

I don't believe you are unreasonable, what is unreasonable is companies exploiting workers on zero hours contracts and then failing to pay them.

^this

yabu if you named them, yanbu if not.

this is why i don't have my workplace on facebook, which leaves me "free" to complain if i've had a bad day without consequences. if you mentioned his workplace, then they will be angry. if your DH had written what you wrote, he would probably have lost his job.

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when workers are non unionised and every worker is competing for hrs against each other because they are on zero hours contracts, we need to have ways to ensure that companies also suffer the " rightful consequances" of how they behave. If workers do not speak up how are we to know which companies we should spend our money with.

Would do us a favour if he was sacked so he could get a proper job with a contract worth the paper its written on, they won't sack him as its easier for them to just stop giving hours but still have him on the books.

What an incredibly stupid thing to do. Sorry OP but you are a liability and need to change your attitude. But it was mean of your friend to go running to the boss as it was on a private profile. But let this be a lesson to be more cautious in future about what you post on facebook and who you trust as friends.

He didn't understand the contract when he signed it he was told he would get a certain agreed amount of hours each week only transpired after that it is a zero hour contract and they have no obligation to give the hours promised.

I completely agree that workers' rights are going down the toilet, Mini. That isn't what I meant by "rightful" at all. Speaking up in the OP's position is absolutely right. But going off half-cocked on FB (the company might argue that is she is identifiable, they are identifiable) comes across as childish and unconsidered, which is exactly the wrong way to start speaking up.

If he didnt understand it, he should have got clarification before signing it.

You are absolutely entitled to have a rant if you want to and the truth is an absolute defence.

They have paid him late and you are financially stressed. No libellous comments there.

I do think that having a public strop is a bit childish..not to mention dodgy as you never can tell what who's watching will do with the information (as you have found out).

Personally I'd have rung a good friend and had a bloody good whinge instead but each to their own and no, you are not being unreasonable.

Have they not started to offer more hours?

I can't believe so many people are defending companies who exploit. Why are workers giving away their rights and then castigating OP.

Should she starve in silence to protect business profits and reputation. Isn't that why these companies get twitchy, if they did no wrong and paid their staff then surely their employees would sing their praises and the cash tills would sing?

Catpuss yes he should have but it was a bit late by the time I realised, they know he is dyslexic and I feel.this was taken advantage of.

Yes I could have handled it better but after everything that has happened since starting this job that he didn't know what he was taking on and then not even getting paid for what he has worked I was pissed off and was ranting where I thought was completely private.

The friend that went running to the boss often slags them off on Facebook too and has left several times and I wasn't aware she was back at the company before this.