Had to pop into work yesterday to pick something up from my boss and popped my head into the staff area to say hello to some colleagues. One of the lads that I work with (22 years old) was laughing at a video he was watching on his phone and showing it to his friend, asked me if I wanted to see.
It was a home video, not made by him, of a man hitting a small asian boy across the face. He looked to be about 5. My lovely colleague found this hilarious and when I got upset, made a horrid racist remark excusing the behaviour and implying I was uptight about it.
I had to leave straight away but after an hour I called my manager and told him what I'd seen. He was horrified and told me to leave it with him. I've had a text from a colleague this morning to say the lad in question has been suspended pending an investigation and there are some other colleagues apparently annoyed with me for going to my manager about this as it wasn't work related and the lad himself hadn't made the video, and the poor lad could now lose his job.
I can't see how anyone could defend him for this, I really don't. We've all recently had to sign an update to our contracts with regards to social media and internet use which explicitly forbids staff from sharing this kind of thing. No decent human being wants to see that kind of shit.
Suppose the lad keeps his job. WIBU to refuse to work with a nasty, vile, racist child abuse excuser?