GB News on big screen in at prospective new workplace...

[WinkyTinky]

...made me immediately want to turn the job down. Lovely posh building, fancy reception area, all very professional people who conducted the interview and showed me around their very impressive facilities. But they choose GB News of all the news channels???! There are of course other factors in turning the job down, I'm not crazy. Interested to know what would put you off taking a job.

[Temporaryname158]

I think you are being ridiculous

[AhBiscuits]

That would put me off too.
I wonder who gets to choose the channel though, probably not the colleagues you'll work with day to day.

[WinterMorn]

There could be a dozen reasons why this happened. Why didn’t you ask why they were showing it?

[BunniesRUs]

Very concerning

[cadygal257]

It's possible they roll all the news channels over be course of the day.

[gannett]

I'd have definitely asked whose decision it was to put GB News on, and why, and whether it was the norm. There are definitely fields of work where it'd be useful, if not pleasant, to monitor that channel. But if that wasn't the case and it was just the preferred outlet of the company... I'd run.

[Itloggedmeoutagain]

I'm not seeing an issue

[AgnesX]

It's probably set by reception (yuk). Everywhere I've ever worked that's had a TV at reception it's the BBC news channel.

No idea if that was company policy though. Before you turn the offer down you could ask.

[RoomOfRequirement]

The kind of people who think that channel is good are not the kind of people I choose to spend my time with. So if I didn't really need the job I'd say no too.

[WinkyTinky]

@Itloggedmeoutagain Farage, Mogg, Anderson, Wooton, Fox, Neil bloody Oliver..... They are the issue.

[NewPapaGuinea]

Probably not directly, but would take a closer look at the culture of the company.

[KoolKookaburra]

It's going to depend very much on the job and the target customers for their services/products

[Whatevershallidowithmylife]

our receptionists keep changing to Loose Women etc when specifically they’re meant to have sky/bbc news only on. I’d rather GB news than LW.

[Heftyhideaway]

Run for the hills! It’s not a mainstream channel. Unless it’s some kind of think tank and this is linked to research I can’t think of a single reason this would be on.

[WinkyTinky]

I sat there waiting for the interviewer to arrive while the presenters on the lunch time news were all "ahhh, bloody foreigners" and all I could think of is Christ alive, this is one of the reasons I'm leaving my bloody husband!!! It just felt totally mad as a first impression!

[Bbq1]

It's probably just happened to be on
Even so, you'd look unhinged to ask them why they have GB news on in reception.

[Bambi1449]

That would absolutely put me off wanting to work there. YANBU.

[Mrsjayy]

@WinkyTinky

...made me immediately want to turn the job down. Lovely posh building, fancy reception area, all very professional people who conducted the interview and showed me around their very impressive facilities. But they choose GB News of all the news channels???! There are of course other factors in turning the job down, I'm not crazy. Interested to know what would put you off taking a job.

Oh RUN! I mean GB news isn't even news it's an opinion channel and really any company broadcasting the channel isn't worth your time,

[MrsSkylerWhite]

Temporaryname158 · Today 09:47
I think you are being ridiculous”

You’d be happy having to listen to that shite at work?

[MuffinsAreJustCakesAtBreakfast]

YABU

The channel would have been chosen by a person or two. It does not represent every single person at the entire company.

If you want to be in the modern working world you will have to work with people whose opinions you find distasteful but work professionally with these people nonetheless. It's life. I'm pretty sure amongst my colleagues I have Trump supporters, racists, anti-abortionists etc. They must be there...I don't know who...but statistically some of my colleagues must be these things.

It'll be the same everywhere you go. Regardless of what the telly in the lobby shows.

[CaptainCarrotsBigSword]

It's a difficult adjustment but we are going to have to accept that we no longer have (if we ever really did) an unbiased, non-political news source. GB news is kind of like Fox news in the US, and while a lot of people dislike it, it is still a legitimate news network - it's not like a YouTube channel. BBC news has a lot of biases too - look at how they treat trans issues, e.g., how quickly they swept the Cass report off the front pages when other news networks were still running it as a prominent story, how they will always blindly report a trans identifying male sex or violent offender as "she" even when other news networks are pointing out that the person is biologically male, how they continued to label JKR as transphobic.

Now, you wouldn't necessarily be unreasonable in deciding that you don't want to work in a company that is politically/ values aligned with GB news, but I don't think that the company are unreasonable for deciding that the set of biases presented by that news channel is preferable (to them) than the set of biases presented by any of the other news channels.

However, there is the possibility that they rotate through news channels, thereby avoiding promoting any set of biases or agendas over another - which would actually be pretty fair minded.

I personally favour sky news as it seems relatively fair handed - but then, does it just match my biases?

[Sugarfish]

I wouldn’t care. It’s an absolute trash channel, and in reality it’s the butt of many jokes and it’s harmless. I guess someone in the company must it like it? Also if you’re working with many people chances are a lot of them will have different views to you anyway and it’s not a bad thing. It’s not good to live in an echo chamber.

[Mrsjayy]

I don't think GB news is harmless at all. That's like saying oh Jeremy Kyle was trash TV and harmless.

[Tattletwat]

I find most news channels distasteful these days since Covid I don't trust any of them, nearly all of them during height of COVID were just mouthpieces and fearmongers of the government BBC and Sky were terrible during that time.

[WinkyTinky]

@Bbq1 yes I would have looked unhinged ha! But I'm still tempted to mention it when I ring the recruitment company on Monday to say I'm really sorry but I can't accept the job.