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?

So... a company can not pay an employee, leaving a family without money but that's ok.

Wife of said employee posts that they cannot pay their rent on her private Facebook and that's not ok.

Wtf?

It wasn't some random, it was someone who had information which could only have come from their employee (op's dp). They'd probably be right to wonder what else she'll be bollocking on about all over the Internet next.

Bringing your company into disrepute, by whatever means, is a sackable offence.

we should be apologising to you, because WE collectively are allowing workers rights to be stripped from all of us.

I don't get cross about posts on here very often but I find the comments, above, insulting and downright ignorant. You have no idea what other posters are doing to campaign against exploitative employers in real life and neither, I would hope, would any right-minded person condone the removal of workers' rights.

However, the OP did not ask us to condone this inequity. She asked us whether she was BU in posting what she did on FB and actually, for the many reasons already stated, quite a few people agree that it was an unwise course of action. In fact, far from protecting workers' rights, what she did may well have assisted what sounds like a thoroughly crap employer to get rid of a worker. Her DP.

The OP also suggested that she had the right to post whatever she wanted on FB which of course she does. But in this day and age people should surely have recognised that posting whatever you want on the internet always comes with consequences. It's not as if the internet were invented yesterday.

In conclusion, the OP's DP should have been paid, he should not have been made to sign a contract he didn't understand and his company should not exploit their workers. But we weren't asked to dispute those facts. We were asked to comment on the OP's alleged rights to post whatever she wanted on FB and did so. She can discard all or any of the comments received but if you don't want the specific question about the reasonability of your actions answered (or are unprepared to accept that you will get views that differ from your own) then don't post it in the first place.

Kim, one who has apparently also slagge off the company on facebook in the past!

They have different surnames and are not connected on Fb.

Kim one that's brown nosing for more hours

It's not unheared of for employees in a zero hour contracted role to start arguments for personal gain

I do also get irritated at the thought of them climbing out of their ivory towers for long enough to take offence at a comment made on fb. By someone they've left struggling to pay for rent and food.

In fact I hope they start a thread on here looking for support for their hurt feelings, the poor dears

If you put it out there you have to accept the fall out............

YABVU

Someone I worked with was sacked for comments about her job on facebook even though she didn't explicitly name the company etc. You need to be very careful about posting things like this online especially if you have connections to the company as friends. It's a YABU from me.

YANBU to be pissed off at your husband being paid so late though.

There is nothing to connect the two on fn though

Pandemoniaa, sorry it is not meant personally. It was a political statement that workers need to show solidarity. Over the last 30 years workers wages have not kept pace with productivity and profits. Unions were crushed in the 80's so they are pretty toothless, their response is to talk, talk some more and do very little because they rightly perceive that they could be completely crushed in a second brush with the Torries. So I guess what I am saying is that in view of the fact we are now individuals without collective solidarity, we need to talk. People need to be talking about how their wages don't cover living costs, their hours are being cut, their over time stopped etc, because when the Torries talk about encouraging foreign investment into the UK and flexible labour markets.....they are talking about Zero hours and competitively low priced labour.

Unless we talk and social media is central to that, we can not organises a response and stop the erosion of pay and rights.

RuledByHeart - did you see my earlier post, where I told you that being sacked would NOT be a good thing, because it would damage your dp's future employment prospects. It does not look good on a CV.

YABU...my husband would be furious if I did that. Likewise if he did the same. Really don't know why people feel they have to record everything on fb.

Thanks, Mini and I do agree with you. Sorry to go off on one but as a former convenor and long-time activist for worker's rights I allowed the red mist to come down briefly!

I hope that your DH is ok and that you have not ruined his work environment for him too much. I am pretty sure that my DH would dismiss anyone who did this/said this about his company although I do believe that there are formal warnings etc to go through beforehand.

I would be absolutely FUMING if my DH did this to me about where I work - but then, he would never do something so bloody short sighted and stupid.

Some people are so ragey

Have more and a

[Grin]

Or even

I don't usually post here but this got me thinking.

OP - I don't think what you did was the most dignified or wise of responses. However, I absolutely understand your frustration and in fairness, you didn't lie - just told it like it was. If that offends or embarrasses the company your DH works for then tough - they should pay people on time!

I used to work for a blue chip company which had a 'do not talk to the media' clause in my contract - but that also extended to my family. I have no idea how this could actually have been enforced legally as no one in my family signed my contract, did they? Fair enough if I'd passed information that wasn't in the public domain, but what if it was something that was in the public domain or directly affected them and they chose to speak to the press? It's a very grey area legally speaking.

Oh dear - was I deleted because I don't love FB?

OP - I don't think what you did was the most dignified or wise of responses. However, I absolutely understand your frustration and in fairness, you didn't lie - just told it like it was. If that offends or embarrasses the company your DH works for then tough - they should pay people on time!

this too ^^

i have NO TIME for cuntish employers who think its fine to fuck with the lives of their staff and their staff's families. they deserve naming and shaming IMO

this is why i am now self employed

Oeufs thank you for the and . I need to relax.