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Manager has openly criticised me on Facebook
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PasturesNew wrote: »You can read this for starters, to start to understand what he's done wrong.
https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q771.htm
Sorry but that only relates to false information about people.
As much as it may pain the OP as it criticises him, I am not sure what he can do if everything that has been posted is true.0 -
No, he is a criminal - is that too difficult to understand?
If he was stupid, then he would have done it in a way which could not have been discovered.
He would still have been a criminal.
No crime has been committed here and if everything that the MD posted is true then there isn't even a case for libel.0 -
Onemanarmy wrote: »It's very tempting but I'm only in a few days over Christmas and I'm very reluctant to burn my bridges before I've got anything to move to.
If you "burn your bridges" then you have done precisely what he hoped you would do imo.
You've been set up by him basically.
In your position - I'd get onto Facebook and see if they could erase the post by him and I would not say one single word to him (or anyone that would tell him) about the fact I had had that post of his erased. Let him stew in frustration as to how you've managed to have his post taken down and pretend you haven't the faintest idea he put the offending post up there.
I would say he wants you to be so offended you'll resign "of your own free will" - and hence I'm advising you to pretend to ignorance that such a post even exists.
That's voice of experience time (if not via Facebook...) of one of the tactics my last employer tried on me to try and get me to resign (or, at least, not stand up to their attempts to unfairly dismiss me).0 -
moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »In your position - I'd get onto Facebook and see if they could erase the post by him and I would not say one single word to him (or anyone that would tell him) about the fact I had had that post of his erased.
Why on Earth would Facebook agree to delete a post just because another person doesn't like it??
Facebook don't even delete some of the terrorist postings.0 -
PersianCatLady wrote: »Why on Earth would Facebook agree to delete a post just because another person doesn't like it??
Facebook don't even delete some of the terrorist postings.
Quite!
Ultimately it is down to their policies. The publisher or printer of libellous material can also be liable under some circumstances even though they didn't write it. Probably somewhere or other in signing up to Facebook you are indemnifying them!
But of course that is only relevant if it is not true. Nowhere in this thread has the OP actually said it is untrue, only something like "a matter of opinion".
Newspapers regularly publish articles about people without their permission. Generally there is no redress unless it is actually false.0 -
Undervalued wrote: »Quite!
Ultimately it is down to their policies. The publisher or printer of libellous material can also be liable under some circumstances even though they didn't write it. Probably somewhere or other in signing up to Facebook you are indemnifying them!
But of course that is only relevant if it is not true. Nowhere in this thread has the OP actually said it is untrue, only something like "a matter of opinion".
Newspapers regularly publish articles about people without their permission. Generally there is no redress unless it is actually false.
Exactly I am so glad that you see this the same way too.
From the sounds of what has been written here I strongly suspect that everything the MD said was true but the OP doesn't like the fact that it is on Facebook.
Unfortunately for the OP in the grown-up world as long as something is true there is nothing you can do about and trying to get the post removed is just pathetic.
Perhaps a better strategy would be to take heed of what the MD has posted and try to work harder to improve in the areas that were mentioned in the FB post instead of moaning and complaining about the post.0 -
PersianCatLady wrote: »Exactly I am so glad that you see this the same way too.
From the sounds of what has been written here I strongly suspect that everything the MD said was true but the OP doesn't like the fact that it is on Facebook.
Unfortunately for the OP in the grown-up world as long as something is true there is nothing you can do about and trying to get the post removed is just pathetic.
Perhaps a better strategy would be to take heed of what the MD has posted and try to work harder to improve in the areas that were mentioned in the FB post instead of moaning and complaining about the post.
That's a refreshing way to look at it, but you don't have to search far on the internet to find stories of employees losing their jobs for making honest criticism of their employer on social media. However you're saying that if the situation is reversed then the employer should just accept it.
Are you a fan of Donald Trump by any chance?0 -
What strange behaviour. I don't have the experience to advise you legally but morraly that's really bad and I wouldn't want to work for someone like that.
I'd say nothing. Take screen shots as the others suggested and then find another job. Leave without notice and send the screen shots with your resignation.
Sounds like a small company so hard to do much else especially that he the MD. How unprofessional though. Maybe he had had a few when he posted it?!0 -
Onemanarmy wrote: »That's a refreshing way to look at it, but you don't have to search far on the internet to find stories of employees losing their jobs for making honest criticism of their employer on social media. However you're saying that if the situation is reversed then the employer should just accept it.
Are you a fan of Donald Trump by any chance?
I think that it is always wrong for someone to be penalised for stating the truth.
In the example you give of people being dismissed for making honest criticism of their employers then if that is all there is to it then I do think that it is absolutely disgusting for people to be dismissed.
However I do think that people are very naïve when they publicly say things about employers when the result is that they could lose their job.
If I were an employer and an employee made remarks about my company on social media I would definitely wonder about what their intentions were and what level of judgment a person has if they don't see the wider implications of their actions.
Unfortunately life isn't always fair and although your manager has morally been lacking by posting about you on social media sadly in this unfair world you wither have to just accept it or resign because at the end of the day he is the manager and you are his employee.
Finally no I don't like Donald Trump and do you mind me asking you how old you are??0 -
PersianCatLady wrote: »Why on Earth would Facebook agree to delete a post just because another person doesn't like it??
Facebook don't even delete some of the terrorist postings.
Because it's about that person #puzzled
Words like "libel" you know....that sort of thing...if it applies to newspapers then I would imagine it must apply to Facebook.:cool:0
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