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

[Softlysoftlycatchymonkey]

Oh don't get me started - I live on a estate and fucking hate summer.

[FlossyMoo]

Report her or block her otherwise she will continue to annoy you and subsequently us

[LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726]

OP... Why would she still be on your FB friends list if she mocked an old man and you were so annoyed about it when she did that? I'm sorry to ask but, is it just faux outrage on your behalf? Will there be another incident that angers you and still she will remain on your FB friends list or will it be 'strike 3'?

I agree that it would be cowardly to report her. Take it up with her directly if you feel so strongly. I don't understand because I couldn't feel as angry as you say you are and still entertain being one of her FB or any kind of friend.

[ilovesooty]

I'd have reported her after the first incident. If she'd received a warning then she might have learned the basics of not being unprofessional on social media by now.

[SqueakySqueak]

Bit of an overreaction for talking about the weather.

[NeedsAsockamnesty]

Of course they do, despite most of Mumsnet refusing to believe it - why do you think they are trying to implement a benefit cap that is higher than most people earn from working

You might want to educate yourself a bit as you are quite behind the times,the benefit cap had already been in force for over a year

[ChelsyHandy]

There are surely more annoying FB posts than that?

You sound like you're out to get this particular person OP, what with your excellent memory of their past posts too.

Maybe you should join the thought police?

And how is it unproffessional? Its not a doctor or lawyer, is it?

[shockinglybadteacher]

It is fucking unprofessional. You don't have to be a doctor or a lawyer to have standards you're expected to keep to in your job.

I'm a union rep. We have seen a rise in cases like this across the board and it is always due to someone having "a bit of a moan about work" and pissing someone off who then reports to the employer. Read the Labour Research pamphlet on it - privacy settings won't save you and neither will what you put being "innocuous", someone got canned for writing the equivalent of "Back to work on Monday, sooo looking forward to it (not)".

Do I approve of it, no, I think you ought to get to say what you want in your free time. The reality is that on social media you cannot. It's as ObfusKate says, there may be free speech but there is not speech without consequences.

I would counsel the OP not to report but to ask her friend to take the status down. Even setting aside the content, it could put her in a bad place with her employer and that bad place could include dismissal depending on the policies of her place of work.

(I took down a status of mine today because I rethought it - it was about work. Although all it said was "Yay! I love [aspect of job]" it is safer not to talk about work at all on social media).

[splendide]

I feel sorry for her to be honest. She sounds like an idiot with a crappy job and she will by a huge margin be a net receiver from the tax system.

[BarleyBub]

The Benefit cap is still only £26,000 a year so plenty of people will still be getting £400+ a week in benefits. I can't blame her for being pissed off, I would be too, I used to work in a shop where people on benefits made fun of the staff for having such a "shit job". But she should be smart enough not to share her thoughts on facebook as it could get her in trouble with management.

[EveDallasRetd]

But that includes housing benefit, paid to LHAs and private landlords thanks to the lack of council/social housing available. Would you really begrudge someone a roof over their heads simply because the need for it tops an 'acceptable' limit in your head?

[GreedyBitch]

Why don't you just flame her on her facebook page? Have the courage of your convictions! This is the second time she has been an arse and you're coming here for what?

[BettyBolognese]

is it her personal facebook account?

if so she can say whatever she likes. would you advocate censoring facebook statuses?

No Kerry you are completely wrong. Her employers will have a social networking policy. She can be in breach of it and lose her job. The photo of the customer would definitely be worth investigating.

[londonrach]

Block and report. Don't raise to bait

[melika]

You can't blame her for moaning, post office queues are always horrendous. Their staff have been cut and they are under pressure all day. I feel for her, I really do.

[shockinglybadteacher]

BarleyBub as well, yeah, no-one's getting £400 cash in hand per week. Their landlord will be getting a large part of that. (Even if they were, that's £1600 per month by my very bad calculations. That is not vast riches, especially if you have children...and utility bills to pay).

If you're really concerned about the level of benefits, you're better to go after the landlords than the claimants.

[BarleyBub]

EveDallas, people who work have to pay rent too.

[shockinglybadteacher]

melika complain about the cuts then rather than the customers?

[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?

[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.

[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.

[icanmakeyouicecream]

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

[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.