Yet millions of people think the opposite.
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Bless the Telegraph, people have opinions, shocker, should people be a bit more circumspect when using internal system, probably, will the usual suspects squeal about unprofessionalism, yep already happening.
Will it make the blind bit of difference to the bottom line, nope
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That’s tremendously blinkered.
It’s tremendously not, it’s not tremendously embarrassing as you said either, and neither has the other culture war things in the Telegraph in recent months.
Is there a bit of a thing on the elite right about how they are being victims of some conspiracy, yep, and does the telegraph fuel that, yep. But will this have people worried at in Broadwalk House, about the reputation of the bank, nope, it’s just a load of noise
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Good argument.
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It’s definitely something I wouldn’t do, and if it were my company it would be forbidden, but if they are allowed to make any lawful expression of their beliefs, then why should they be reprimanded for doing so?
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I tend to agree. But also
This. Any organisation, bank or otherwise, really should be mindful around leakage of information and SARs. While I can appreciate they might not want to impede on free speech and nor should they, any form of workplace communication tool can and does get leaked.
So if they’re ok with that happening (and it would appear they are) then go for it, be as radical as you want. But expect leaks, and subsequent flak.
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quiet, Hunt as a PEP and nearly as high profile as they come with a bundle of compliance work to do, as would Miller’s party as the manner of funding for a political party is ‘diverse’ to say the least, and some off those streams will set of a ton of alarms.
If they are picking and choosing, they aren’t picking potential customers which would place an undue burden on the business to manage, that is fair business decision.
I’d be surprised if it wasn’t stipulated in their code of conduct / staff handbook.
If I emailed someone at my company and said one of our customers was evil because they had different beliefs or political persuasion and it got out somehow, I imagine I’d be in big trouble.
Monzo need to stamp this stuff out. It is (quite obviously) embarrassing.
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Of course, it’s all an opinion. You either support or don’t support a party that implements policies that favour the wealthy and destroy the poor. That’s your choice.
As would I. I’m just not making that assumption.
Maybe they already have. We wouldn’t know.
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I think two things are being conflicted here.
If you have an open Slack channel for people to chat and try and connect with colleagues because you’re all hundreds of miles apart, obviously things will get said that are not the direct company line.
But there is a huuuuuge difference between “I don’t like the Tories and I can’t wait for an election” and someone else listing all the great things they believe the Tories have done/doing. And someone saying “Have you seen that fraud case from Mr Brown? LIAR”
I think the former is fine, the latter is not.
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They can try but they’ll never be able to.
Like someone said up above. They are human, and as such there will always people having these kinds of discussion where any large group of people exists, the fact it’s written or happening a work place doesn’t change human nature.
People suggesting that they should do it in a private Whatsapp group, are not living in the real world. The easiest method will be used, not one that means sharing personal phone numbers/usernames/email addresses with colleagues.
It might be embarrassing for a company but not moreso than if waiting staff in a restaurant were overheard talking about a customer.
People talking about other people is nothing new, neither is it happening in a place of work.
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Having these types of people working for you aren’t a net benefit.
- They cause headlines like this
- try to form unions for extremely privileged software engineers earning £100k+
- distract, alienate and demoralize their fellow employees that don’t share their views with endless waffling about niche social justice causes (which you aren’t allowed to say anything about because you will be branded a whatever-ist and fired)
- If they have hiring authority they will hire based on diversity, not who’s best qualified for the job.
- Ones in customer facing roles will sometimes discriminate based on their political beliefs (see Coutts/Nigel Farage scandal)
Best thing to do is declare a politics ban and offer severance to anyone not happy with it. Just like coinbase did https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/30/coinbase-ceo-offers-severance-to-employees-leaving-over-politics.html
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I’m definitely talking the latter - it’s why it makes headlines!
Every time I see 30 new messages in the MITM thread I think “oooh, is it IPO time??”
no. no it is not.
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So they called a political organisation evil and said Rees Mog should do the human race a favor and leave politics. Am I missing something because that’s the least scandalous thing they could have said.
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Also, as I noted last night, having a private WhatsApp group is still no defence against a whistleblower leaking the contents.
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FWIW I’m happy to support any group of workers who wish to organise in support of their aims, whatever their job title or salary.
I also think that Monzo should also support their employees.
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Thought I’d accidentally opened the Daily Mail website for a minute…
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