Sacked for using 'N' word

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I don't know how to copy link sorry but has anyone been following the story of the Lloyd's bank manager who was sacked for asking a relevant question in a so called anti racism training session by his employers but in his question he used the full 'N' word.
His question I believe was how would he be expected to deal with black employees or customers speaking to each other using that word.
The trainer was so offended by the word, she had to take 5 days off work. However, he got sacked.
He has since been awarded £500,00 but no apology from Lloyd's and no job back.
As far as we know, the ridiculous incompetent trainer is still employed.

I am close to this story but afraid to say how.
But will say that I'm losing sleep and furious more and more at this bank.

How is the trainer ridiculous and incompetent? That seems like a very harsh judgement. The N word is extremely offensive because of its history and cultural connotations.

I've been following this story and feel quite sorry for him. He asked a question, believing that he was in a safe space and with the focus on improving his relationships with customers. He said he has dealt with this in his branch previously hence needing to ask. Can't believe the ridiculous trainer needed 5 days off work! Glad he has his compensation but that won't fix the issue of him losing a long term valued career.

Honestly? White people using the full N word, whilst whinging that they're only using it because some black people are using it, are generally unpleasant racists. There may be exceptions to this. I just haven't met one.

Just reading the replies to this....I agree using the word is highly offensive indeed, but surely in this context it isn't? When you are just referring to the word in a question? Am I missing something???

Taking 5 days off because someone used an offensive word in a question about how to deal with an offensive word, is fucking insane 🤣

Hang on, this is sounding mad.

He's being trained on anti racism. He asks how to deal with black colleagues or customers using the word n***, because he has experience of this happening in his branch and wants to know how to deal with it. He's sacked for using the word within the context of the question??

There would have been ways to describe the issue without using the word, so chances are he was looking for an opportunity to use it and upset without repercussions and it backfired

They're clearly both idiots and neither person should be defended for their dramatics nor their ignorance.

Isn't it just!! What a melt!

Was he not totally vindicated by the Tribunal

Cop yourself on OP. How extensive do you think the problem of black bank employees/customers throwing the N word around is? Really? This chucklefuck got exactly what he deserved.

If he's been awarded half a million quid for wrongful dismissal, it would seem chances are he wasn't doing any such thing.

There was just no need for him to say the word, there never is. He could just as easily have asked his question referring to it as ‘the n word’ which is surely what most people would do?

So why was he awarded so much money afterwards?

Did he have to say it in full, though? Did he really? He couldn’t have said “the N word”? He HAD to say it, in full, without censoring himself AT ALL?

An anti racism trainer who takes 5 days off after hearing the n word 🤣
You couldn't make it up!!

I feel for the fella who has lost his job 😞

The trainer and the Mickey Mouse DEI industry is indicative of how batshittery goes unchallenged these days. Can you imagine taking someone seriously who claims to to train other people but goes off sick for 5 days when someone in training asks a perfectly valid question.

Yes me too!

The story is most news outlets. Can anyone assist in posting a link pls. Afraid I can't manage it in my phone.
There is more detail to this story if you care to look it up.
Appreciate I have only given you headline

I see your point @WalKat (and I have to say I haven’t read the full story that this is about), but there are ways to avoid using the full word as it causes so much offence.

I’m not sure why the man couldn’t have just said ‘the N word’ instead of saying the full word - if he’d just said ‘the N word’, everyone would have known what he had meant.

I think part of it comes down to being professional and behaving well in the workplace. It’s a bit like if someone at work said a very serious swear word (e.g. c**t). It would look unprofessional and pretty rude if someone else repeated the full swear word rather than just say something like ‘the C word’, as most people know what that’s referring to).

The payout was for disability discrimination according to the articles I read. Not sure what difference that makes. But I'm shocked that you'd get to be a bank manager without realizing that the n word is highly inappropriate and that you wouldn't use a placeholder like "how do I handle it when staff or customers use racist language"

It seems a teeny bit suspect that this person's question, when recieving anti-racism training, was about how to pull up black people on their use of language.

The fact he has been awarded a payout of unfair dismissal and Lloyds have accepted that tells you something.
Many at Lloyds have refused this training.

At the beginning of the course, they were told it was a safe place to talk.
🤣🤣🤣

It's in the telegraph.
The Conseravtive Councillor has used Dyslexia as his defence........

"“I feel very discriminated against,” he said. “I often wonder if I wasn’t a white middle-aged male would I have had to go through everything I went through. There is no way of telling. But when I talk to my friends – and as you can imagine a good many are white, middle-aged and male – we all agree that is the worst thing you can be right now. You are bottom of everything.”

@WhatsInStoreFor2024 because sometimes the system rewards the wrong person, and racism still runs through our institutions like Brighton through a stick of rock.