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No, everybody at the BBC knows you don't embarrass the organisation.

I once lazily registered at a political website with my BBC email address and made a comment.  Even tho' it wasn't directly visible, my email address came to the attention of some of the BBC's enemies (right wing blowhards) and they debated getting me sacked. They knew they could and I knew it too. I'd made one mistake and yet, if they'd felt like it, they could have destroyed my employment. Not because I was prominent, but because they wanted to instill fear among the general workforce to remind them they were being monitored. (they actually let me off cos they googled me and found out I was transgendered, they felt sorry for me !!)

And that's the way it works. The BBC couldn't keep her on cos it has to be seen to do the right thing at all times. She used a BBC phone, she made the BBC complicit in her act as that made it an official BBC call. So to absolve their blame, she had to go.

Is it just ? I doubt there's many large companies that could afford the bad publicity of having someone do that. Litigation is expensive and failure to act makes them liable. by using company resources to commit even a low level "crime", she gave them nowhere to go.

As I said, if she'd used her own mobile, she'd still be there.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Nov 17th, 2008 at 03:40:53 PM EST
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... and at the same time, unfair. Its not even cricket ... it may only take one slip to be out, but you normally get another bat in the second innings.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 09:20:47 AM EST
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I don't even know what that means, but it sounded good.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 09:56:48 AM EST
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You know how in cricket the bowler, who when his team came in went out in the field, going all out trying to get the team that went in to bat to go all out, throws the ball at the wooden stakes? And if the batsmen lets one through and it hits the wooden stakes, he's out?

But, of course, there's two innings ... so even in a game where it can be one strike, you're out, you get a second chance.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 10:18:26 AM EST
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