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    Calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, tribunal rules
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    Calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, tribunal rules

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    1. xDroneytea on

      Ego trip from the boss there. If all I get called is a dickhead, it’s not a bad week in the office.

    2. 299WF on

      Christ Almighty… the last time I had a boss, I called him a dickhead to his face pretty much every day. How some people get as far as they do in life is beyond me sometimes…

      I guess because he was actually a dickhead and had come to terms with that a long time ago, then HR were fine with it. I have since learned that you should never argue with an idiot; they’ll drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

      Edit: Having now read the article, someone who works in scaffolding who can’t handle being called a dickhead (especially when engaging in acts of dickheadery) should probably consider finding another industry to work in, seeing as though that’s probably the least worst insult you’ll come across…

    3. Comfortable-Law-7147 on

      So she called them dickheads and he replied with the f word while sacking her?

      Seems her language was normal in their workplace. 

    4. HUGE_COCK_MAN420 on

      Context matters. It is a sackable offense in some situations. However, in this case – The workplace didn’t take the correct approach to firing her. She recieved compensation because she wasn’t sacked properly, not because you’re allowed to call people at work dickheads.

      I can’t describe in words how much I despise journalists. There’s no integrity, It’s all just a battle of who can make a headline that is most likely to get shared on social media.

    5. BaldyBaldyBouncer on

      Wow, she had to wait 3 years and the legal fees were as much as the compensation she was awarded. Seems like a big win for the lawyers here and not really anyone else.

    6. Old_Course9344 on

      Most bosses do look like that though

      Bald shiny head

      Lots of loose fat around their necks

      Large moobs dangling like testicles

      You basically see a walking dick all day long

    7. Porsche-Turbo on

      I wouldn’t sack them. I’ll make them take on more work.
      Cos my former boss did that to me!

    8. Rebel_Diamond on

      Headline is bollocks as usual. The actual story is:

      – Woman has contract that says she can be fired for insulting and offensive language *if given a prior warning*
      – Woman uses insulting and offensive language
      – Woman is fired without a warning

      They could have absolutely fired her for it if they’d followed their own procedures, or just not included the prior warning sentence in the employment contract in the first place.

    9. busty_annabelle on

      The headline here seems a bit misleading. They seem to suggest that if she’d been given a prior warning about this behaviour it could have been a sackable offense. They just didn’t find it to be gross misconduct.

    10. darkmatters2501 on

      I meen if the boss is a dickhead. How can a factually correct statement me a sackable offence.

      It’s like firing some one for saying water is wet ?

    12. Wonderful_Discount59 on

      Was the boss Dick Jones from Robocop?  

      _I remember when I was a young executive for this company. I used to call the old man funny names – Iron Butt, Boner… once I even called him… Asshole[1] – but there was always respect. I always knew where the line was drawn, and you just stepped over it, buddy-boy._

      [1] or “airhead”, if you were watching it on ITV.

    13. ShinyHappyPurple on

      Finally some good news.

      I also feel like this is a hearteningly British ruling.

      You can call ya boss a dickhead but you have to front up and say sorry within 24 hours would be my ruling…….

    14. Ok_Photo_865 on

      No shit, called a dickhead a dickhead should be acceptable. It really has more to do with, you reap what you sow.