Employment Law Question:
by Philip
If one of your employees left a message on a customer’s answerphone of a grossly offensive nature involving that customer’s grand daughter, would you:
a) Sack them for gross misconduct
b) Sack them for gross misconduct
Or
c) Sack them for gross misconduct.
Most citizens, as license payers, are customers of the BBC, including Andrew Sachs. So come on BBC, grow some, and do the right thing. It’s not that difficult.
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Like accidents, serious misdemeanors are usually the result of system failure. In this instance, you must remember that the programme was signed off by internal controllers.
As a “shareholder”, I would like to see the control systems laid out for us all to see. How does the BBC ‘decide’ what to do, how to do it, etc. etc.
Jo said at October 29th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
There are two offences:
1. The original call.
2. The editor’s decision to sanction it for broadcast.
JR and RB need to be dismissed for 1. Someone else needs disciplining for 2.
The fact that someone else sanctioned the call for broadcast subsequently, doesn’t deflect from the fact or mitigate the fact that the call was made in the first place.
Philip said at October 29th, 2008 at 12:19 pm