[armand.kay]

Originally Posted by Mokka

This is ridiculous. Unless her social media directly links her to her job as well they shouldn't be allowed legally to fire her...
But also... let a person grow and evolve already. Let her put her past behind her and move forward. Not being able to find work and being lambasted by media are not going to lead to progress. Society is going to push this kid over the edge... and then who will take responsibility for her suicide?

I mean they wern't joking when they told us in school to be careful what we post online

[ThriceShy]

Yeah, I'm not sure that legally you can fire someone for something they said while they were a minor, years before they even started working for you. She needs to lawyer up and seek advice.

I certainly wouldn't take that lying down.

[Headie]

Her to change her name to Ellis Hillon Valentine like our Emily did?

[Scream]

Like others have said, I feel a bit sorry for her. What she tweeted was absolutely ridiculous but I myself have looked back at my Facebook when I was around 15/16 and even though it wasn't anywhere near as offensive as what Ellis posted, I said things that I would definitely not say now.

It's a really hard situation because the tweets are actually inexcusable but she was young and would hopefully never dream about saying them things now. But now her life is literally ruined and it's going to be very hard to come back from this

[Ammi]

..this is where BB have to take some responsibility for things like this as well...if they had done some basic checks into things like housemate’s tweets, all basic things that are available to the public so easily as this seemed to have been with Ellis....?...then they could have made the decision to not put her into the house and not revealed why...and nothing would have impacted onto her personal life in such a way...

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..this is where BB have to take some responsibility for things like this as well...if they had done some basic checks into things like housemate’s tweets, all basic things that are available to the public so easily as this seemed to have been with Ellis....?...then they could have made the decision to not put her into the house and not revealed why...and nothing would have impacted onto her personal life in such a way...

This, totally for me.
Really unfortunate for Ellis.

[Amy Jade]

I think this is actually really sad. She was 14, we all make mistakes.

It's pretty gross people want her fired.

[Gstar]

I believe her firing will be more justified than Salmans

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Germyle

I believe her firing will be more justified than Salmans

...huh..?...our Salman, Germyle..?..

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by Germyle

I believe her firing will be more justified than Salmans

mess was he fired over what happened on here

[Gstar]

Originally Posted by Jack_

mess was he fired over what happened on here

No, he dropped oil on the floor and didn’t clean it up. A hazardous, clumsy bitch

[Eddie.]

Tesco Roxanne?

[Shaun]

Their Salman, yes

As for the subject... I think in a professional environment you should have the right to privacy with social media and not have your tweets scrutinised, but I think you surrender that right the second you decide to step in the public eye. Silly girl.

[Ammi]

...she didn’t step into the public eye though until BB made a decision to accept her as a housemate without checking any basic social media history, I presume...and then they’ve made the decision to immediately step her out of the public eye because of their inability to do basic checks...:I don’t care drinking coffee smiley as well inserted:...

[Ammi]

...and ok, I didn’t know anything about Salman losing his job or for the reason why that happened...and I’m a bit stunned tbh...

[Rob!]

I’m not entirely convinced McDonalds have a leg to stand on here. BB yes, because she’s in the public eye, but who the hell cares about the beliefs of the person typing your burger order into the till?

[Scream]

Originally Posted by Rob!

I’m not entirely convinced McDonalds have a leg to stand on here. BB yes, because she’s in the public eye, but who the hell cares about the beliefs of the person typing your burger order into the till?

possibly for her safety also i'm sure everyone in her town will know her now and i'm sure there's a lot that are extremely offended by her tweets regardless of her age. I am not sure myself whether she should have been removed from the house but because she has been, I think McDonals did the obvious thing

[Jake.]

BigSack?

[MB.]

Originally Posted by Jake.

BigSack?

What does Luke S have to do with this?

[Ammi]

..it really is a mess up by BB that’s quite unforgivable ...what she said was awful but may have been a stance she may have readdressed and revisited but now it’s something which will be very difficult for her to do that with ...what they did with their lack of input of any basic history check is quite dangerous imo...

[Glenn-C]

A bit ridiculous now how this girl's life is being ruined because the show couldn't take a few minutes to scroll through her twitter

[y.winter]

Is it still happening?

[Denver]

Anyway as someone who use to work in McDonald's it is written in the controls you can be sacked for disrespecting thecompnay on social media and as she hasn't done that she could definitely she them were they to sack her

[storybrooke]

I feel bad for her if she could lose her job over this, I know age is no excuse for saying these sort of things but still.. Hope things work out alright

[Robodog]

Whole lives ruined just for saying/thinking the wrong thing.

Slippery slope?...

Today, this punishment is for people who make rude comments about women/blacks/muslims/jews/LGBT people.

It's done under the guise of 'protecting minorities'. That's how it starts.

Tomorrow that punishment will get extended to include negative comments about everyone else (In the name of equal treatment, it's only fair, right?)


SO NEXT: people will get punished for making rude comments about men/whites/christians/straight people.
THEN it will be punishment for people being rude about governments, politicians, corporations etc etc
SOON you won't be able to say anything negative without getting punished under 'hate laws'.


"Yeah but we need these laws to protect minorities from offensive comments!"


Do you really think the people who enforce these laws, the same people who have been literally bombing the middle east for years - you think they actually care about minorities?


Or do you think perhaps they are using minorities as an excuse (like some kind of human shield) in order to bring in new laws that will eventually be used to control everybody?


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