New Zealand telecoms company searches for foul mouthed employee

It's called freedom of F-You. Your right to object to a given situation. Justifiable chastisement in many situations. If people wish to view this as obscenity, then we are all going down a rather slippery slope in which any form of speech may be considered abuse. For example, merely raising ones voice. The right-wing Christian agenda is pretty clear in the tone of the reports. This is the second such report and I shudder to think they are both related to the recent DA F-You in Parliament. F you is certainly not hate speech and is used on a daily basis in many television shows. So why the moral prudery all of a sudden?
 
How can something happening in New Zeeland, be related to the DA in SA?

Going through their billing records should provide them with the culprit (match employee numbers against the 5 customer numbers).
 
afrodeity said:
It's called freedom of F-You. Your right to object to a given situation. Justifiable chastisement in many situations. If people wish to view this as obscenity, then we are all going down a rather slippery slope in which any form of speech may be considered abuse. For example, merely raising ones voice. The right-wing Christian agenda is pretty clear in the tone of the reports. This is the second such report and I shudder to think they are both related to the recent DA F-You in Parliament. F you is certainly not hate speech and is used on a daily basis in many television shows. So why the moral prudery all of a sudden?
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You can't be serious.

This isn't a morality issue, it's an issue of someone abusing his position in a company to harass its customers. And you do not have complete freedom while you're an employee. You have to abide by your company's code of conduct. If you don't, you should find another job.
 
afrodeity said:
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=6&art_id=vn20100218063332546C523798
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I've heard ANC deputies swear in parliament before. This one obese, white guy with curly hair. That was on the Parliament Channel a good few years back and it happend as I was channel surfing. He was just speaking casually - to a session of parliament and made a mistake then said "oh f-ck" and carried on. No-one even blinked. Maybe they were asleep or perhaps because it wasn't against anyone or in anger.

There should be a code of conduct in the parliament. Whether it is Sarkozy who as the President of France tells another citizen to "f-off" on TV or person in a court of law or someone in the parliament, there has to be respect to the office of the parliament and everyone else there. When you're an MP and you're swearing in parliament, you are making a farce of the office to which you were elected. You're free to swear as much as you want, on your own time.
 
PeterCH said:
You can't be serious.

This isn't a morality issue, it's an issue of someone abusing his position in a company to harass its customers. And you do not have complete freedom while you're an employee. You have to abide by your company's code of conduct. If you don't, you should find another job.
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well said.
 
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