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Australian Workplace Tribunal Rules Facebook Unfriending Constitutes "Bullying"
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."
The Fuck?
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.
Unfriending someone doesn't even come close to what I went through.
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.
When you loose the right to choose your own friends, what does that say about a society? These people need to wake the fuck up and statt living in the real world.
"The Fair Work Commission didn't find that unfriending someone on Facebook constitutes workplace bullying," Josh Bornstein, a lawyer at the firm Maurice Blackburn, told ABC News.
"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."
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Please tell me there is more than just those items. There has to be something else going on here. There has to be....
Article title: Facebook 'unfriending' can constitute workplace bullying, Australian tribunal finds
Article content: Legal experts said the case did not mean that unfriending a colleague on Facebook would automatically constitute bullying.
"The Fair Work Commission didn't find that unfriending someone on Facebook constitutes workplace bullying," Josh Bornstein, a lawyer at the firm Maurice Blackburn, told ABC News.
"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."
The title is misleading. The unfriending was part of a range of things that the one coworker did to her coworker.
In today's society of entitled dips*its, even disagreeing with someone is bullying.
Digital is, by definition, imperfect. Analog is the way to go.
FTFA: "'The Fair Work Commission didn't find that unfriending someone on Facebook constitutes workplace bullying,' Josh Bornstein, a lawyer at the firm Maurice Blackburn, told ABC News."
"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
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot?!?
If you can be hurt by someone not speaking to you or by unfriending, you sorta deserved to be called a pussy, don't you?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Clearly a hoax. The correct expression would be "decobbering".
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
then i am in big DO-DO
The very last post on FB was unfriending EVERYONE
and telling FB to go shove a dried shucked corn cob up it's rear end
"I don't pitch OpenSUSE Linux to my friends, i let Microsoft do it for me
"The Fair Work Commission didn't find that unfriending someone on Facebook constitutes workplace bullying," Josh Bornstein, a lawyer at the firm Maurice Blackburn, told ABC News. Unfriending someone isn't workplace bullying, and shame on the poster for suggesting such a thing without even reading the article.
As a contractor, I was assigned the cubicle with a post in the middle of it... Help! I'm being oppressed!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
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.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
In my opinion, use of so-called 'social media' itself very often shows a lack of emotional maturity in the first place, and perhaps more than a little narcissism; it's all about look at me, look at me, look at me!
Furthermore, if 'unfriending' someone could be considered bullying, then sending someone a friend request could also be considered bullying, because you're putting that person on the spot to accept the request; the reciprocal of this would also be true: failure to graciously accept any and all 'friend' requests could be considered bullying.
Considering that the whole 'friend' concept is central to to all 'social media' platforms, one would almost have to conclude that 'social media' in and of itself is a mechanism that exists solely for bullying people. Since bullying is bad, social media needs to be eliminated. Facebook in particular is triggering me; anyone else care to join me in a class-action lawsuit against Facebook for it's enabling of bullies? {/sarcasm}
Sarcasm
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Welcome to Australia, the land of idiots.
Unfriending employees on Facebook and not saying good morning could constitute workplace bullying
Well, of course it could, but that's no reason to get the law involved.
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
That is a complete contradiction of the headline and the opening of the summary.
Yes this contradiction is too complete, it sounds like suspiciously specific denial, that's why it made it to headline :P
....I'm so glad I don't have a Facebook account.
Friend me, unfriend me, ignore me, whatever......I'm just happy to not have this drama-magnet in my life.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
You must be new here.
"Even Prophets don't know everything"
That's not all. There are people, many of whom post on Slashdot on Fridays, who really believe blocking someone on Twitter = Censorship.
You are welcome on my lawn.
So, when does unfriending someone constituted as "unreasonable behavior"?
It is still ridiculous.
First they had static ads and they didn't really bother me. Then they had video ads and I thought it was a nuisance, but I put up with it. Then there was an ad that kept yanking me up to the top of the Slashdot page instead of perhaps following me down. That was the last straw!
Some people are to stupid and much tor fragile to be let out of the house. What is next? Telling people it is illegal to end a friendship online? Whoever thinks such is reasonable really needs to get a life. And yes, I will unfriend any among my social networks who I find out think that this is reasonable. Life is too short to put up with nitwits.
“[Unfriending this colleague] evinces a lack of emotional maturity and is indicative of unreasonable behaviour,” the tribunal ruled.
So unfriending someone is among the list of things which can constitute bullying, even though by itself it wouldn't be.
Though personally, I think it's a good idea to unfriend every litigious crybaby who wants to look at my Facebook account to see if I said something she didn't like. A little Bird told me so.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
Exactly.
This headline is unacceptable and amounts to direct misinformation.
The article clearly states:
".....commission didn't find that unfriending someone on Facebook constitutes workplace bullying".
So FUCK YOU SLASHDOT
Suspiciously specific denial is when you deny something out of the blue. It's suspicious, because if someone else didn't prompt you to deny this particular thing, then it must have been some internal process of yours, such as guilty conscience.
On the other hand, a lot of old conspiracy theorists have switched their targets to "political correctness", and found backing from bullies terrified of running out of acceptable victims. As such, this Slashdot headline was perfectly predictable, so pre-emptively denying it is not suspicious but simply futile.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
Next they will be prosecuting people for intra-cubical "fart rape".
I really miss how awesome slashdot was 15 years ago.
would you even remain friends on Facebook with someone who is bullying you? And if you need to be connected on Facebook for work then your workplace is screwed up.
Can someone please tell me who runs Slashdot and dictates editorial policy?