As a line manager can I demand to see someone's Facebook pages?

[MaryMotherOfCheeses]

Because someone who works with me took three days off recently due to "a stomach bug".

I've been told her Facebook pages say she went away for a few days and got pissed with her friends.

Assuming she doesn't own up when I confront her, can I insist on seeing her Facebook pages? If there's no such stuff on there, why would she hide it?

What do you think?

I was looking on old posts to see what sort of employment issues people had had as I've a few myself, and just thought I'd comment anywaym even though its old lol.

so has she been got rid of yet

Yabu.

I hope in the meantime the posters on the thread have worked out how FB works? Its private if you set it private. Which is why the OP couldn't see it.
But then knowing fuck all about something never stopped people pontificate vociferously in AIBU, did it?

Oh I'm in your camp that I'd love to be able to ask to see it, catch her out and then sack her. However, you can't really do it so unfortunately you'll need to go the formal route of capability and absence management.
People like this make me sick (excuse the pun) and I think she'll be stupid enough to trip herself up one day.

What a funny thread!

Dagnabit! I've just conscientiously read through the whole bloody thing before adding my tuppenceworth, only to find that the op has probably sacked the wench by now anyway. Grrrrr!

I thought I recognised this thread!

Please don't CarrieandBillie. It causes confusion and doesn't help the OP who moved on 18 months ago.

It is unreasonable.

You either believe in rights to privacy, or you don't.

If you believe in your own rights to privacy, don't attempt to breach hers.

If you don't believe in rights to privacy, write your MP and ask that UK law be changed.

Ah but my (ex) line manager once got his daughter to add me as a friend so he could see my page

I went onto his daughter's page the other week, and she's got piccies of him right there...

Sorry but I think that if you actually have to ask on here if this is unreasonable, then you shouldn't really be getting paid to be in a management role.

Of course you cannot stand there and demand that she log into her Facebook account in front of you. She is being completely unreasonable and taking the piss, but YABU to even think that this is within your power/role over someone.

I?d ask the person who told you about it (who must be 'friends' with her) to take a screen shot of her Facebook page and then you have the proof.

it's a relly old thread purple

I really want to know what happened about it in the end.

Oh bugger/..... ......I got caught out on that one too....lol.......... though wonder if the P taker did eventually trip herself up.....thats if the OP was genuine..

I did initially think the same as purple....but having recently come across an area store manager that thought getting check out staff to insist on looking into peoples personal shopping trolleys before serving them was acceptable & legal.... because " well, honest people won't mind will they" ..... then these days it seems having authority doesn't always mean you know what you are doing

OP - would you hand over your diary, nah didn't think so.

TREAS old thread!

at all the new posts.

this is ancient. check the dates before you post.

ahh this is ancient.

but i know someone who just got fired for stuff theyd written on their facebook page!

Ooh lemony was it Gail Moss?

I know it's an old thread but...a teacher friend of mine was recently suspended over stuff on her FB page- moaning about work etc but nothing too outrageous.

I wonder how her HT was allowed to do that then?

@ Olifin - some people are incredibly indiscrete when adding 'friends' and she probably added her HT at some point and either forgot or was so fed up that she didn't care. That or she didn't set her privacy settings properly.

This may be an old thread, but is does provide someuseful information and clarity on managing sick leave. I'm a manager in the public sector, and we do have a specific procedure for monitoring and addressing excessive sick leave, one of the first steps being to have Occupational Welfare staff checking the sick record for items that can be taken out of consideration when looking at the record. Eg, if someone had had a one -off operation I wouldn't count that for taking action. If the sick leave goes over the trigger point (14 days) even when these one-offs have bben removed, then we put staff on a form of monitoring working pattern to address the issue.

Anyone who's been taking the P* usually knuckles down at that point, and it's all by our book, which even the unions have agreed.

For anyone else in a similar situation, use your procedures, they'll ususally catch someone out if they've been faking it.

"a teacher friend of mine was recently suspended over stuff on her FB page"

Society is going to have to get to grips with the ease with which people can publish things to very wide audiences, without necessarily themselves realising quite how many people are watching.

So, if you sit in your front room and tell three of your friends that your boss is a bit of an arse, no problem. If you print fifty thousand handbills and have them loaded into the undercarriage of a plane so they are spread all over West London as the plane approaches 27R, it's hard to argue you didn't know what you were doing. But if you put something on Facebook you might intellectually know that the audience is huge, but you will have an emotional sense that you are sharing it just with your close friends. Which is a problem.

NO! Bugger off!

Sandstorm That's what we thought, but her HT was very definitely not on her friends list and her privacy settings were rock solid as she didn't want pupils reading her page!

The only possible explanation is that another colleague read the page and grassed to the HT (and probably showed them the page, I guess) which seems to me to be the same as the OP's situation.