Having this conversation about
Oh what about culture, I mean, Where is where
do you draw the line as to what's acceptable
when someone who's been heavily
involved in cancel culture to finds himself
in the Middle of
it? Well, I think I mean if you're employed
by an
Organization, you need to look at their social
media policy
and so I think it really is come back to that
in terms of
losing your job over something like this,
you really need to
look at you. You're representing the Organization
whether you're at work or not and some some
policies that
you're not as long as associate yourself with
us. But for someone
like Pete Evans, you know clearly he was it
was clearly attached,
to MKR and that's how people knew him so it
was really MKR trying
to minimize the damage to their reputation
and they and I mean
they might have lost advertisers over as well
and so
they were trying to distance themselves from
from him. So
it's I think you know if you're an independent
person, you can
go out and say whatever you like, but if you're
being paid
by an Organization, then you need to really
to negotiate what are the
terms surrounding that in relation to your
social media
activity. Yeah. It's a good point but I suppose
that in
TV land as we find ourselves with Pete Evans
you're almost too
big to fail. If you show's a success, you're
just able to
get away with whatever you want right. But
the problem was this
year is MKR, was a ratings disaster and Channel
Seven
obviously were probably looking at this saying
alright
well now is the time where we can take some
steps now. what's
your tips for companies that might be doing
that. We know
that Atlassian, which is one of the biggest
companies in
Australia in terms of value right now and
two of the
biggest billionaires in the country, and they
have said
that they've got a no jerk policy so you can
be as great
as you are at your job. But if you're a fool
or if you're a nightmare
in the office or whatever get out is the way
that they kind
of look at there too is that what businesses
should be doing
or is that a little bit too far? Well, I think
being a jerk is in the eye of the beholder
isn't it. There's probably different degrees
of being a jerk and so I think if
you're going to go for that behavior is otherwise
it
will come back to bite you. I'm not sure that
don't be a jerk
would stand up in a court of unfair dismissal.
The person wasn't
clear what being a jerk actually meant so
I think you're if you're
going to have conditions around people's
behavior on social media or in the workplace
you need to be very
clear about what is acceptable and what is
unacceptable and you
need to educate, so not just putting it in
a policy and saying read it, actually taking
the time to train people so they know what
that actually mean. Yeah for sure. Alright
we'll leave it there for now. Thank you so
much for your time.We'll talk to you soon.
