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A sales assistant who was fired after she posted an expletive-laden message about her boss on the Bebo social networking website has been awarded nearly €5,000 compensation.
The comment was:
I fuckin hate that cunt.
The [ Employment Appeals ] tribunal found that Ms Kiernan’s comments deserved “strong censure and possible disciplinary action” but they did not constitute gross misconduct in the circumstances.
As pointed out on boards.ie this morning:
It seems nobody has learned from the fairy.
Which is a reference to American employee of the Anglo Irish Bank who emailed to say he had to go to New York due to a family emergency, only to be discovered on facebook partying in a fairy costume.
Full story on Vallywag for that.
And then there’s the story of the 27 year old male, prosecuted today over leaving dirty messages on a school girl’s bebo site:
Paul Anthony Matthews (27) posted what a judge described as “outrageous” messages on a teenage girl’s site on January 31 this year.
Matthews, of Carnbeg, Doylesfort Road, Dundalk, agreed to pay the victim €3,000 instead of going to jail.
The pioneering case was brought under Section 13 (I) of the Post Office Amendment Act 1951 for sending offensive or indecent material by means of telecommunication.
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I effing hate that c*nt. Mmmh, not gross misconduct in that it wasn’t uttered during work time and not to the boss’s face within the hearing of other employees. Nevertheless it was posted on Bebo and became public, so any employees or customers of the firm coming across the published comment would get a bad impression of the boss, which could undermine his authority and street cred. Therefore a sacking matter IMHO. It might be construed as defamation of character too. The boss should get a share of that €5,000 methinks. As for the guy who took time off to party in fairy costume - should be banished to a lios or fairy fort.
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I find the whole Bebo thing to be really bonkers, ie. the way people say and post outrageous and highly personal things on their Bebo sites and don’t bother with privacy settings. I know a few people who work as primary school teachers whose Bebo accounts can be found easily via Google, and I wouldn’t have thought that they’d want the kids they teach (or their parents) being so well-informed about their private lives… Mental.