This just in:Unfriending employees now count as bullying [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11890275/Facebook-unfriending-can-constitute-workplace-bullying-Australian-tribunal-finds.html] according to the Australian Workplace Tribunal.
Not only that, but failure to say good morning also counts.
One has to wonder if we aren't taking this hyper-sensitivity a bit too far.
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Not only that, but failure to say good morning also counts.
One has to wonder if we aren't taking this hyper-sensitivity a bit too far.
From the article:
What do you think? Is it about time that 'Facebook friends' is written into the constitution as a basic human right? Is a 'good morning' grounds for bullying? Or is this yet another step towards coddling those that have never needed to learn about life's (not really) harsh reality?A woman in Australia who unfriended a colleague on Facebook after a dispute at work was found by a tribunal to have committed workplace bullying.
The Fair Work Commission, a workplace tribunal, said the decision by Lisa Bird, a real estate agent sales administrator, to unfriend her colleague Rachel Roberts showed a "lack of emotional maturity" and was "indicative of unreasonable behaviour."