Australian Workplace Tribunal Rules Facebook Unfriending Constitutes "Bullying"

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Australian Workplace Tribunal Rules Facebook Unfriending Constitutes "Bullying"

Posted by samzenpus on Friday September 25, 2015 @05:18AM from the don't-unfriend-me-bro dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Unfriending employees on Facebook and not saying good morning could constitute workplace bullying, an Australian workplace tribunal has ruled. Australia's Fair Work Commission decided that administrator Lisa Bird had bullied real estate agent Rachael Roberts after unfriending her from Facebook. The commission's deputy president Nicole Wells said the act showed a "lack of emotional maturity" and was "indicative of unreasonable behavior."

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What by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-25 05:20 · Score: 2, Insightful

The Fuck?
What? by tripleevenfall · 2015-09-25 05:22 · Score: 5, Insightful

So, unfriending someone is bullying, presumably not accepting a friend request in the first place is bullying, maybe not sending someone a friend request is bullying too? We are all bullies now.
1. Re:What? by vikingpower · 2015-09-25 05:36 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Just RTFA. This is not a general judgment; it is about one particular case.
  
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And people wonder why I quit Facebook years ago by xxxJonBoyxxx · 2015-09-25 05:23 · Score: 5, Insightful

And people wonder why I quit Facebook years ago. I can't wait until the place turns into a nest of libel lawsuit discovery in the next few years - my popcorn is ready.
1. Re:And people wonder why I quit Facebook years ago by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-25 05:32 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  That just means you are socially excluding everyone. Your anti-social aggression warrants charges for terrorism.
2. Re:And people wonder why I quit Facebook years ago by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-25 05:40 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  This isn't a Facebook Issue. This is a whiny self-centered wimpy fragile human, who should probably be put in a mental institution's padded cell, because obviously life is too hard for them.
  This is Facebook's target demographic.
click-bait by Gravis+Zero · 2015-09-25 05:35 · Score: 4, Insightful

"What the Fair Work Commission did find is that a pattern of unreasonable behaviour, hostile behaviour, belittling behaviour over about a two-year period, which featured a range of different behaviours including berating, excluding and so on, constituted a workplace bullying."
it just so happened that unfriending happened in that period.
click-bait

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Totally misleading -article COMPLETELY contradicts by wonkey_monkey · 2015-09-25 05:47 · Score: 5, Insightful

Australian Workplace Tribunal Rules Facebook Unfriending Constitutes "Bullying"

They didn't rule that at all. Just read the last paragraph of the article:

"The Fair Work Commission didn't find that unfriending someone on Facebook constitutes workplace bullying,"
That is a complete contradiction of the headline and the opening of the summary.
If Slashdot had a shred of integrity left, it would retract this story in its entirety and apologise for talking bollocks.

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Re:Read the article by BradleyUffner · 2015-09-25 05:48 · Score: 3, Insightful

The title is misleading. The unfriending was part of a range of things that the one coworker did to her coworker.
It's more than misleading, it is an outright lie.