Soldato
Who's alt account is this?
Can they sack me?
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Totally get this.
New guy, only found the forum last night because I was a little worried about the situation when I received the phone call yesterday. Worked for myself for years so quite new to this. Feeling a bit more relaxed about it given the comments here. I'll try to be relaxed on Monday morning and will listen more than talk.
Soldato
A friend of mine was put on a warning for criticising hamas because a muslim colleague overheard him and reported him!
Man of Honour
People like to get offended by proxy. Being offended is a choice IMO. There's so much victim mentality going on these days.
Just be aware that if you are 'new' enough, then you won't have the same levels of protection for your employment as if you've been there for two years, so whilst this sort of thing isn't really a 'sackable offence', within the first two years they can pretty much bin you for anything they like other than 'automatically unfair' reasons. As advised above, do more listening than talking and don't go in there looking to argue the toss and give someone an easy decision to remove someone who looks a potential nuisance - it sounds like they've got enough nuisance employees as it is
Soldato
Whilst interviewing for my current job, the interviewer made a point to tell me that I needed to consider if this workspace is suitable, basically telling me it wasn't for the easily offended.
Suits me because I give as hard as I get. Still get the odd mardy one though.
Soldato
How would that warning hold up legally? Hamas are recognised as a terrorist organisation by the UK, so I’d imagine criticising them is pretty much legally fine. I’d politely suggest your friend is telling porkies about their warning or perhaps were more than just ‘criticising’ Hamas.
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Soldato
No, it true.
Believe what you want. The work colleague didnt like a fellow 'muslim' being criticised.
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Soldato
Your mate is a fool for accepting a warning in that case.
Don
Depends if you can afford to kick up a stink about it sadly.
Caporegime
Please insanity
Soldato
But they are recognised (in the UK anyway) as a terrorist organisation.
So surely by reprimanding the employee for saying that, they are supporting a terrorist organisation?
Edit: seen above someone beat me to it.
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The problem with this stuff, is that if I read your account as written by you - clearly you can't be fired over that, that's ridiculous. (I hate people who pull stuff like this)
However.
Unless I've missed something, we don't know exactly what story she has told them (presumably HR, or her manager), in my experience nasty people like this have a tendancy to exaggerate things, make stuff up, or add additional details for extra shock effect, and with no witnesses it'll boil down to your word vs hers.
On Monday make sure you have your wits about you..
There was one other girl who came into the office towards the end of it while my accuser was getting triggered and upset; telling me that I shouldn't have an opinion about such things becasue I'm a bloke and asking how I would react should my daughter decide to abort her child in the future - would I support her or spin my story to her; that kind of thing. She only caught the end of it. I am a little worried about it.
That's worth thinking about actually...
Yeah, I've been playing through scenarios in my head all weekend. I'll have to think carefully before I speak (which had I been doing before then I wouldn't have this meeting in the first place).
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If you get sacked for simply saying what you said then the job is not worth it. What a bizarre reason to sack someone...