To call out my work colleague on her unacceptable view

[Marg33t]

She posted today on Facebook that she was sick of hearing about the death of one police officer as there's more important things going on and it's a risk they accept.

I've got family members in the force and quite honestly they are hero's doing very difficult work that not many people would do. I can't stand this anti police sentiment. I've got a meeting with her and many others tomorrow afternoon and I'm worried I won't be able to keep my cool. Would it be unreasonable to send her a private message to say how offensive her post was? I want to say nothing, but I m not sure I can

@thedancingbear

OP won't be back.

HR have confiscated her laptop :)

@Griselda1

It's a disgusting attitude, if she verbalises it in work take her to task but i'd ignore the social media comment.

Disgusting? Is it really though? She said there were more important things going on, other than this one death. Anything OP posted later was clearly made up after she was so roundly disagreed with.

Insensitive and unnecessary are about the worst adjectives I can come up with to describe the original statement, but it isn’t actually wrong. I certainly cannot imagine it would breach any organisations social media policy.

And this thread just descends into a nasty bullying pile on....

Exactly @Florencex

It’s a valid point of view, that there are more significant issues in the world, whether we agree with it or not.
To act in the malicious way the OP claims she has shows us she’s a spineless bully and hopefully if she really has screenshotted like she claims, it’ll come back to bite her hard.
Of course, so much of what the OP has said in her later posts is so obviously fabricated that it’s impossible to know whether she actually carried out what she claims.

if she doesn't want to be held up to her awful views then she shouldn't say them.

They’re not awful views.

HTH.

@SinisterBumFacedCat

And this thread just descends into a nasty bullying pile on....

Because so many people have argued for free speech and challenged the appropriation of #BLM into Blue Lives Matter?

@wombat1a
I haven’t rtft but the penalties for assaulting an emergency worker (police /NHs/fire) are higher than others

Don't engage with people who offend you.

Perhaps your views offend her? Don't bite back

Just because you don't agree with her views doesn't mean they are unacceptable. Mind yoir business and not her thoughts

Interesting that 25% of readers thought OP's initial position was not unreasonable.
The nasty bullying pile on by some of the 75% is no doubt putting them off from posting their viewpoint.

The vast majority of posters disagree with the op from the offset.

Today 15:48 MiddlesexGirl

“Interesting that 25% of readers thought OP's initial position was not unreasonable.
The nasty bullying pile on by some of the 75% is no doubt putting them off from posting their viewpoint”

Er- perhaps because the OPs initial question was whether she would be unreasonable to send her colleague a private message? Even then, 75% of people thought she was being unreasonable, because frankly, unless you want your social media to be an echo chamber, you accept like an adult that a lot of what you read isn’t necessarily going to reflect your own opinions.

When she didn’t get the majority she was hoping for, the OP quickly descended into ‘ok I’m going to let it go but btw I’ve screenshotted it and am going to send it to HR at work. If you’re going to call ‘bullying’, look no further than that. Nasty, spineless behaviour.
I imagine if the vote button activated later in the thread, she’d have a far lower vote than the (minority) percentage she got agreeing with her at the start

Its people like the OP who create toxic workplaces
They bring private matters into work, bitch, moan, complain, sneak about, report and then cry poor me when shit hits the fan and they told to grow up. Nasty, untrustworthy people these types.