To feel extreme anger over this Facebook status?

[AlexVause82]

"If you come into the Post Office, please do NOT proceed to tell us IT'S HOT!!!!! We know this as we are working whilst all you people with no jobs lap up the sunshine and spend my good earned TAX money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just because you have no job and receive £400 a week, doesn't mean you can flaunt it around when I work 40 hours a week for HALF your money!

Rant Over!!"

I am too angry to think of a reply right now. This person is always having a go at the jobless, it wasn't that long ago when her immediate friend circle - including me were long term unemployed. I see it as an insult to all of us

[windchime]

She will not get the sack. The Post Office has a fantastic union. I think you would actually have to murder your union rep, on the shop floor, to even get suspended.

[foslady]

My employer has fired someone for what they posted on facebook, and others have had written warnings. That's why the most I'll put if it's been a bag of shite is - 'Phew, what a day!'. All my friends/workmates know the code......!

[Whiskwarrior]

Interesting. I'm a single parent, with three kids, working part-time - I certainly don't 'get' £400 a week in benefits. Are things like Housing Benefit (goes towards my rent) and Council Tax Benefit (comes directly off my council tax so I don't see that)? I get £170 CTC per week, £50 JSA per week and £190 CB per month (£45 per week?).

And I pay all my bills out of my benefits, as well as groceries, clothing, travel, etc, etc. Where do people get these stupid ideas that those of us on benefits are living the high life? The only people I've ever known like that were criminals who subsidised their lives with burgling and mugging!

And loving the posters on this thread who seem to be newbies just goading with the 'she's telling it like it is' - do fuck off and get a life.

[abigamarone]

She sounds a bit of a prat merely for assuming everyone going to a PO during 'working hours' is unemployed let alone anything else.

[Smoolett]

Thats offensive. I was in there yesterday posting ebay parcels while on maternity leave. I wish I was getting 400 pw for doing nowt :-/

[MostWicked]

A benefit bashing status is a bit dim and somewhat annoying but I would probably reply to her post to correct her and suggest that she takes legal advice about being paid less than the minimum wage.

However, the posting a picture of the old man, was completely unacceptable and I remember at the time you posted about it, most of the responses said you should report her, though a few disagreed, but you chose not to, so I'm not quite sure why you are complaining about her again when you are not going to do anything about her.
Just hide her posts if you can't unfriend her or report her.

[SignYourName]

[OnlyLovers]

I want a chocolate eclair now!

[SignYourName]

I'm surprised that apparently intelligent people can't get their heads around the fact that many companies now have a social media policy which staff have to agree to, and which prohibits staff from using Facebook, Twitter and the like to bring their employer into disrepute or posting anything which casts their employer in a bad light.

This woman is keen enough to take her pay packet every week, even if it is only £200 (really...? ) Her side of the contract is to do her job effectively and comply with her employer's policies - and that includes their social media policy, assuming they have one.

A friend of mine received a written warning for using a play on words when referring to her office building (along the lines of St Ann's House / Satan's House) which was seen and reported by one of her colleagues. That's all it takes these days.

I remember your previous thread, OP. She sounds a thoroughly unpleasant individual and in your position I'd be de-friending faster than I can eat a chocolate eclair - and that's fast.

[NickiFury]

I would respond publicly telling her how ignorant she is and then block immediately to save the stress of an argument with her.

I tend to do this when foolish "friends" on FB start banging on about how there were no behavioural disorders in their day and kids these days just need a good spanking. It happens with monotonous regularity.

[brdgrl]

It's on her own Facebook page. Not posted in the window of the Post Office.
If she said it at a cocktail party, would you ring her employer up on the next morning? Really?
Of course she's an idiot and making an offensive statement, but really, she's making a statement of her personal views. Unfriend her or challenge her.

[OnlyLovers]

I would unfriend her. She sounds like a nasty piece of work. Photographing elderly customers to mock them? Is she 15?

[Sapat]

Puzzled as to why you feel you have to respond? You don't have to react to every post and impose yourself as a moral judge.

[FairPhyllis]

Hmm. There can't be that many post offices in travel agencies ...

OP are you in the NE of England?

If you feel strongly about it, send a screenshot to her employer. It's incredibly unprofessional.

[NickiFury]

I get that too, I also care for two disabled children, entirely alone as it was too much for ex and he pushed off to South East Asia.

SOME benefits recipients get that because of situations like mine.

Most don't though, for example a single person will get assistance with their rent and council tax and then about £70 in their hand a week to feed, clothe, keep warm and pay travel costs for all the interviews, meetings and courses they need to go on in the course of searching for a job.

Some goady fuckers on this thread.

[LapsedTwentysomething]

I don't see why the OP is getting a hard time for thinking that someone ought to be representing their employer positively or not at all. If I had to rely on benefits I would hate to think that I was being judged by a member of staff for doing so. I would sooner see someone struggling to find work in that post - they might have a keener sense of empathy.

And I have reported someone whose 'unwitting' sharing of links to far right groups on FB was incompatible with her role in education. I reported it the second time it happened, and yes the first incident was clear in my memory. I don't think she has been personally reprimanded about it but staff were reminded of their professional responsibilities on social media. I also wanted my employer to be aware that she potentially held reprehensible views that didn't sit well with her position.

She's no great friend if mine. I just responded to a friend request out of politeness. I have since deleted.

I would do the same again.

[MackerelOfFact]

Not everyone on benefits, obviously. But the ones on '£400 a week'.

[MackerelOfFact]

If she really earns £200 a week she probably doesn't pay income tax anyway (or a very tiny amount) as the personal allowance is £10,000.

Those on benefits are probably paying more in VAT on purchases out of their '£400 a week' than she pays in tax deductions on her £200 a week.

[icanmakeyouicecream]

If I could be arsed, I would screenshot it, then unfriend, then report it to the employer.

[EveDallasRetd]

Add message | Report | Message poster BarleyBub Wed 30-Jul-14 08:26:47
EveDallas, people who work have to pay rent too.

Never said they didn't Barley, but the benefit cap doesn't only apply to those people that don't work, and actually more benefits are paid to those in work to top them up to a living wage, and to retired people, then are paid to people that are unemployed.

[DrunkenWhore]

400 A WEEK?! Do people really get that in benefits?

I do! Although I'd swap it in a heartbeat for my 11 year old to be able to fucking read and write, and to allow her to go to an ordinary secondary school. Thankfully I don't collect my money in the post office as weirdly enough even benefit scrounging scum like me are allowed to have bank accounts.

[ChelsyHandy]

But Jesus Christ, its a Facebook status. Can you not just delete her if you object to the woman that much? At school, we used to call people who went around telling tales with the purpose of getting other people into trouble clips. Its not a complimentary term. In Stalinist Russia, neighbours used to tell tales on their neighbours to get them carted off in the night to the gulags.

And what if she complains about you harassing her if she somehow identifies the number of posts you are making about her in a public forum?

[shockinglybadteacher]

melika complain about the cuts then rather than the customers?