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Judicator

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This country is seriously messed up. My wife works for TD bank, just got a notice saying she has to remove her Facebook profile pic because she is using her pistol in it. Reason being is the a angry customer could look her up and sue her under that she is using it in a threatening manner. I mean it's no big deal to remove it but come on! Its her personal life apart from work.
 
It is insane how much reaction there is to a hypothetical person who might get upset about something. Do they really think that a customer is going to file a lawsuit over a non work-related photo, or are they just anti?
 
The control over employees personal lives is something that so many companies demand. It's an incredible injustice. If I have to adjust my personal life for my job, then at the very least, compensation is in order.
 
wow, I still don't get the whole concept that she is "threatening" at some other time/place which somehow affects how people see her now. I hope she doesn't have any other pictures looking plain angry.
 
How did they find out anyway? A search on me won't find my page.

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TD Banks sucks, I still use them and I hate every time I have to deal with them.
In fact most banking institutions suck overall. I am not surprised one bit they are anti.
 
One reason I never had, or ever will, have a Facebook (or MySpace), account.

It's no big secret that employers routinely look into a persons personal webspace (or are alerted to it), for whatever reason.

I'm just wondering if in your wifes case, was it a matter of routine/company practice, or did someone report it to them (not that she has anyway of finding that out)?
 
How do they know it's her facebook page? Is her work email address connected to it? does she list TD bank as her employer?
If so, I'd say they have some sort of say in the content, if not, tell them to go blow.

ETA- Radtekk beat me to it.
 
Tighten down those security settings. If you set them right, random people, or employers, will not be able to see anything about your profile including pictures.
 
I highly doubt anybody can sue her for threatening. They just are using scare tactics because it "reflects poorly" on their sacred institution. However, there was that one issue with where a college student army vet had pics of him and his guns on facebook and someone pissed themselves with fear and called campus police and he was arrested and had a crapstorm to deal with. Probably a thread here one it.
 
ask who at the company is stalking her so she knows whose name to put down on the internal complaint form with the company and then in the cort documents suing them for harassment.
 
LoginName said:
I'm just wondering if in your wifes case, was it a matter of routine/company practice, or did someone report it to them (not that she has anyway of finding that out)?
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She is in asset recovery when someone defaults on their loan. What gets me going is it's her personal life. Not like she carries to work. No need she sits in an office and talks to people on the phone.
 
Fix her facebooks privacy settings, and confirm you can't see her from a non-friend account. It is easy.

Or put pic of rainbow with a person from every nationality under it holding hands singing we are the world and the words "no place for hate" over it all, and leave it public. Your choice.

Brb, I just puked I'm my mouth.

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Do you and your wife value employment from TD Bank? If so, remove the picture. If not leave the company. Your core values and the companies may not align. Yes, it is her personal life but the picture was posted by you or your wife. Be careful what you put out on social media.
 
Judicator said:
This country is seriously messed up. My wife works for TD bank, just got a notice saying she has to remove her Facebook profile pic because she is using her pistol in it. Reason being is the a angry customer could look her up and sue her under that she is using it in a threatening manner. I mean it's no big deal to remove it but come on! Its her personal life apart from work.
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It's her personal life. Tell them to F off. Who are they to tell her what she can do in her free time?
If they fire her, then sue them.

Unless she conducts business for TD via Facebook then they are unrelated.
 
Call a civil righst attorney...this is way over the top.

Remember the movie "Roller Ball" and how several corporations ruled the world because government had so totally broken down? Watch out for the "little brothers" folks...cause they can screw your life over just as bad as big brother, maybe even worse.

With apologies to BillB and every other union basher out there (with considerable justification) this is exactly why unions were started back in the day because employers wanted to control their workers lives: pay in company script, buy in company stores, live in company housing. Now days they can't do that, but instead they want to control your life other ways...and no I don't have a real answer other than litigation, but then if you do prevail, they will just fire your ass for something else.

Every time we bring up the rights of the employer, some employer does some a-hole thing like this. "Want to work for this company, your choice, but we decide what you put up on the internet, whether you can own a gun, and what you can say." "Don't like it"..."T.S. go work someplace else, it's your right." Of course when we have about 16% actual unemployment (maybe even 20%) that becomes a viable option [thinking], esp in the financial services industry when BofA announced they were laying off another 40,000 people. NOT !!!

There has to be a balance and neither labor or management can get the upper hand.

Things just plain suck ! [angry]

Others will disagree
 
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Serious case of gun envy!!!

If your wife's FB profile pic was her holding a softball bat, because she plays for the TD Bank Softball Team would they have the same opinion and make the same request??? After all in my city the Luiseville (?sp) Slugger is the second favorite weapon of choice in violent acts here.

Narrow minded, false pretense (being succesfully sued) and blatantly ignorant on the part of TD. Unfortunately anyone can sue anybody over anything especially in Massachusetts. Will that suit be sucessful, that is another question all together.

It is up to your wife as to how much she wants to make of it. Given the current unemployment levels, should she just change the picture, privacy settings or fight TD?? Really an individual decision.

Best of luck!!!
 
Pilgrim said:
What are they going to do next, tell her she can't go to the beach in a bikini ? Drive a red car? Be seen in a particular supermarket? Buy pizza from a certain pizza shop.Tell them to FOAD.
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Well Pil some corporate bean counter will figure out the how much they are paying for health insurance and decide that all employees will have to eat a "healthy lifestyle" and will ban their employees from eating pizza. What happens in those businesses where employees wear uniforms? It would seem to me that if they go to Mickey D's for lunch and some vegan health net sees them, it might suggest that they live a reckless lifestyle. "I don't want somebody who eats a cheeseburger fixing my car, or handling my money." Hence, you better not eat fast food, and.." oh by the way we are going to check your cholesterol level quarterly."

You know of course, that some companies ban the use of tobacco by all employees on and off duty (sorry for the military term) and actually test people for nicotine consumption and fire them. http://lansing.injuryboard.com/misc...ps-worried-about-privacy.aspx?googleid=277588

See the trouble is, we often weigh our sympathies with owners, and management because we feel as business owners they have the right to hire and fire whom they want, and in an "at will" state a person can be terminated for any reason, even if that reason has nothing to do with work, or the workplace and even doing legal things like smoking cigarettes and lawful possession of firearms and posting them on Facebook are grounds for termination. That is the soft and sticky underbelly of this whole issue that we overlook sometimes. [wink]
 
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How can a customer sue her? She should tell her boss and HR to pound sand. They are making assumptions customers will be alarmed. I make the assumption that customers will like it. I am unapologetic about my 2A rights and because of that I have found more gun owner in unusual places. Screw TD Bank. I am sure they have no problem with armed guards protecting their banks. Hypocrits!
 
DaveB said:
How can a customer sue her? She should tell her boss and HR to pound sand. They are making assumptions customers will be alarmed. I make the assumption that customers will like it. I am unapologetic about my 2A rights and because of that I have found more gun owner in unusual places. Screw TD Bank. I am sure they have no problem with armed guards protecting their banks. Hypocrits!
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Yeah and when she tells them to pound sand, what next? [hmmm] They'll find a way to get her.
 
This actualy happens quite frequently. What many peaopl do is to have two facebook pages. One public with unicorns and rainbows and another one strictly set for family and close friends only with things that shoot and explode.

Google plus does that, but with one account.

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