Britain’s arbitrary authoritarianism

My contract of employment requires i keep my opinions to myself where they might bring my employer into disrepute.

Every other one since the age of 15 has said the same. Say ANYTHING to piss on my employer’s carefully crafted House of Cards and welcome to the dole

Every contract i had as a freelancer was even worse.

Where is my right to free speech to reveal all sorts ?

And every time that left leaning arsehole opens his gob he shows what a shitfest the BBC is.

Why should I be forced to tokerate employing someone under terms better than i am myself offered ?

Seems to me freedom of speech is pretty much like terrorism,one man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter,it’s not hard to work out we all have our prejudices and think only ours are legitimate.

It is the same for me. If I were to post something online that was highly offensive, whilst being openly identifiable as me, I would risk the sack.

I have seen it happen. A few years ago one colleague posted some highly offensive commentary about Muslims on Facebook, not helped by the fact that we happened to have a popular Muslim colleague at the time who originally came from Egypt. The staff member concerned was already on a final warning for posting offensive commentary of some other kind, the details of which I never became aware of. He was sacked.

I know if I went online and said something like "N*gg*rs are little better than apes", or "P*kis are mostly paedophiles" or "Gay people should be set on fire" or "Disabled babies should be strangled at birth" or "Hitler had the right idea when it came to the Jews" or anything like that, I guarantee that as soon as my employer became aware of it I would be sacked. I do of course hasten to add that I do not actually think any of those things, but they are the sort of examples that few employers would tolerate from their staff, especially if they work in public facing, highly visible, roles.

They also tend to frown upon employees being negative about their employer or any fellow employees online. 

Such is life today, and the main reason is that in days gone by we might just have shared offensive opinions with our mates down the pub, but now we can do it where the entire public can see it, including many customers of the organisations we work for.

Businesses are pretty much driven by the bottom line, and if for example several employees from a particular supermarket were openly spouting homophobic commentary online, this would be highly unlikely to attract many more customers but would if not addressed drive many gay ones away. It might also cause unwelcome internal friction with any gay colleagues kicking off. And in both cases there would be the potential for costly legal ramifications. So employers would tend to nip that sort of thing in the bud and come down on it like a ton of bricks in order to protect their own bottom line, especially if the offending staff members are easily replaceable.

I've yet to come across a right-wing Orwell botherer who actually understood what Orwell was saying.

I see you are an enthusiastic convert to cancel culture when it suits.