to think I'll post what I like?

[ruledbyheart]

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'm with the OP on this, the major issue is that the company should have paid her OH on time! It's completely out of order to not pay him for work done.

I can completely understand her wanting to sound off about it and her OH should not be disciplined for something she has done, that's like something out of the Dark Ages.

spb afaik these zero contract jobs will not sack you. They just don't give you any hours but you are still "employed" by them.

This is ridiculous. There's nothing stopping him from searching for a new "proper" job whilst still employed by these people. I don't think the dp has a problem at all, it's the OP creating problems by posting silly status updates on fb.

Also afa I can see, the OP isn't asking for support. She's trying to maintain that she should be able to write bad things about her dp's employers on Facebook, which a multitude of people have told her is wrong and she IBU. No one is going to support a wrong action.

Tab then presumably there's nothing stopping him getting another job right now?

yes, of course he could get another job now. Which is what I would be doing. But if he hasnt got another job to go to, AFAIK he will not get any benefits for a certain period of time.

I have got another thread posted a few weeks back as to why I cannot work, highrisk pregnancy which wasn't planned.
If DP resigned he wouldn't be entitled to anything but if he gets sacked its a different matter.

DP is looking for work elsewhere but after trying for over a year and this is the only option so far its not that simple.

MiniTheMinx - Respect.

I will munch my biscuit. But will grab a coffee first.

Ownedbyacockerspaniel I have already said up thread that I could have handled it better and it seems I was unreasonable.

I can't believe how many of you think the OP is being unreasonable.

Even if she had named the company, which she didn't, she didn't lie about them. Saying a company hasn't paid your DP, and that you are being left in the lurch because of it, is not making a derogatory comment, it's stating a fact. If she'd said the company made crap products, without backing it up, is being derogatory.

Of course the company don't want people to know that they are in fact bad employers, but if they don't want people to rant about them then they need to treat their staff better.

In fact a poster complained on here recently about her company not paying them and had lots of 'the company must pay you' responses. I don't think anybody said "oh you can't say that on a public forum".

Lets hope he keeps his job, but can keep looking for something better. That actually pays him.

I've never heard of anyone being sacked for something their DP's said about their employee on Facebook. I think he's lucky not to have had a written warning, though.

Lesson learned, eh?

I also wouldn't have posted this thread, tbh. Anyone can look at the forums if they want after all.

Nice 'friend' you have there. What a sad individual. I don't advise this but if it was me I'd be plotting some kind of revenge on the backstabbing cow.

Do you get benefits if you're sacked? I didn't think you did? Tell him to Chuck paint over his boss's car, that'll do it.
(not really...just really struggling to understand how someone can want to be sacked but not be). Is he still doing any work there? Does he bother turning up?

If you named the company; you could well have gotten your dp fired. Do you actually realise that?

Exactly jade

Err really flogging. So if some random posts that my employers haven't paid me on the internet I could be fired?

"MiniTheMinx - Respect.I will munch my biscuit. But will grab a coffee first"

Did you not understand the point I was making.

See again, right wing propaganda is dumbing down the workforce

More concerning perhaps should be, why does industry need docile workers with uncritical brains? ahhh, that would be because docile workers don't mind working for peanuts or even not being paid ! and when this happens another brainless worker will side with the boss and arse lick for extra biscuits.

Sorry no I didn't name the company as such not by name, I wrote about how we are meant to pay rent of the other halfs work don't pay him, DP not named and the company wasn't named as such.

I'd have a lot more sympathy with the OP if she put her hands up and said, "You know what, that was silly, I shouldn't have done that". Instead it's someone else's fault because they told their boss. Eh, no. A bit of personal responsibility goes a long way.

What was the point in posting about it on Facebook anyway?

What fo you mean "as such"?

If I say floggingmolly's boss is an arse does that get floggingmolly sacked?

Unfortunately, whether or not you named your DP or his company, someone on your FB friend list identified you easily and reported it to his company. It's a shitty thing to do but exactly why you need to be very careful what you post on the internet and especially on social media which is like a leaky colander so far as confidentiality is concerned.

Perhaps I should add that, what the friend did in telling the boss, was arse lick for extra hours, see workers pitted against each other, atomised and individualised make excellent workers, ripe for exploitation.

Please don't keep apologising OP we should be apologising to you, because WE collectively are allowing workers rights to be stripped from all of us.

By as such my friends on Facebook knowDP and where he works so didn't need to put the name of the company and I didn't put the companies name.
Obviously said friend was also aware who my dp is and where he works.

'He didn't understand the contract when he signed'

big problem.

and sorry, but you have damaged his working relationship. yabu as you've acknowledged. just another voice piling it on

OH FOR GOD'S SAKE!! ruledbyheart

You should NOT have done it, draw a line under it and move on. It was a bad call a poor judment call. We have all been there and done it once.

Regardless of the legall side of things, no DP will not get fired, but his boss is now unhappy with him and is probably worried you will leak information out right left and center. Such was the price of having a pop at them online.

DP would not be better fired, he would still not get any benefits the same as if he resigned, because it was of his own doing.

He needs to be made redundant to get jobseekers back.

Just ecourage him to look for a new job, with contracted minimal hours. Even if it takes 3/4 months he would be better off somewhere else as you have now caused a unhappy workign environment for the poor bloke.

Claude so will floggingmolly now get the sack or into trouble because some random on the internet has called her boss names?