It’s still against a lot of company policy. I would say most workplaces would say the same.
Not sure about your contact but I have a number of things in mine relating to inappropriate behavior.
It’s what you have outlined in your comment that is the issue in most workplaces - “harmless fun” is still not appropriate in any sense and in 2024 all of these people are now being discovered who once would have once been protected.
Seven in a sense have been notorious for this in the past.
holidays from his proper job. Checking Will’s social, does he know he’s on 7 now too… Not a mention of it, you’d think if you were gifted the plumiest job in town you’d at least allude to it.
To be fair, it doesn’t look like he uses his socials that often.
to be fair, he’s been parachuted into this high-paying job, you’d think he could at least put it in the bio or retweet a story or two.
I’m not sure the lack of a couple of posts on a dying/dead platform like X/Twitter is really gonna do much to annoy his bosses.
Mike Smithson is back today.
We are now in the era of everyone being offended by everything. Much of the shit I got away with at work 20 years ago would never fly these days. Times have changed and sending anything like what was claimed to have been sent is incredibly risky.
Don’t send anything you wouldn’t want coming back to bite you and don’t do or say anything to anyone who you aren’t close friends with and/or haven’t known for a very long time AND that you know is ok with it. Most important of all: keep it off any work device or work email.
Even then you still have to be careful. In the case being discussed the recipient was fine with it and yet the sender was still let go. That was just corporate ass covering so that they have a defense in future cases. “Oh we fired so and so for doing this. We have zero tolerance.”… blah blah.
Welcome to 2024.
First presenter axing named as Paul Burt from 7News QLD:
Liz Cantor or Laura Dymock will probably replace him.
Also leaves Gold Coast without a weather presenter from Tuesday-Friday (unless they get Liz to do the other four days).
It would likely have to be in addition to someone’s current role or a rescoped job - the role is being made redundant and employment lawyers don’t look too kindly on some of those shenanigans.
Do they really need a sport reporter? Many nights there is barely anything to report that is purely local.
Also mentioned in the CM report
There had been fears for the future of Seven’s Gold Coast news bulletin, but it is expected to continue operating on a skeleton staff after several employees and freelancers were among those let go.
Shame to see Paul Burt go.
I expect the Gold Coast bulletin to lose one of their anchors.
Doesn’t replacing him defeat the purpose of budget cuts?
You can get someone else to do the same stuff for cheaper pay if there role is renamed or additional roles are added i.e. in this case Liz would be the fulltime presenter and presenter of Thursday night Lotto.
Poor Burty. I hope he was offered a pay cut first if they are going to replace him anyway.
And she isn’t that good either. Paul is a decent loss- no one on their team is like him either. It’s interesting given it affects the Brisbane bulletin too.
You’d imagine. Amanda is only part-time though.
Working 6 days a week plus doing extra things like costal reports would’ve made him a target for the cuts.
What was he doing on Mondays?
Having a day off I presume.