Tabou Posted 18 December 2007 Posted 18 December 2007 Someone walks into your office...asks to speak to me using my FULL name (when I have never ever met this person EVER)...asks to speak to me in the back room...asks you a load of weird questions... is TAPE RECORDING me (he was fiddling with his coat and asked me to speak up..) And to top it all off... www.joegibbons.net This is the physco's website!!! Nice shotgun!!
Jack Posted 18 December 2007 Posted 18 December 2007 Someone walks into your office...asks to speak to me using my FULL name (when I have never ever met this person EVER)...asks to speak to me in the back room...asks you a load of weird questions... is TAPE RECORDING me (he was fiddling with his coat and asked me to speak up..) And to top it all off... www.joegibbons.net This is the physco's website!!! Nice shotgun!! Hide
Tabou Posted 18 December 2007 Author Posted 18 December 2007 Honestly! He walked into my office....asked one of the guys for me, walked into my office and was VERY VERY weird. I got his name...and, for a laugh, one of the guys typed his name into google. I work in Corby...I knew the residents were weird...but this is a bit freaky to say the least!!!
hairy Posted 18 December 2007 Posted 18 December 2007 Ask your manager what he / she is doing to stop Joe visiting again would be a good start.
Zingari Posted 18 December 2007 Posted 18 December 2007 look for a hidden camera and/or a man resembling jeremy beadle i think "joe gibbons" is trying to make a monkey out of you
AoWW Posted 18 December 2007 Posted 18 December 2007 Someone walks into your office...asks to speak to me using my FULL name (when I have never ever met this person EVER)...asks to speak to me in the back room...asks you a load of weird questions... is TAPE RECORDING me (he was fiddling with his coat and asked me to speak up..) And to top it all off... www.joegibbons.net This is the physco's website!!! Nice shotgun!! Reinvent yourself. Leave town, new identity... the works. Whatever!!!!!!!! MF - you're being a mardy git today.
DB11 Posted 18 December 2007 Posted 18 December 2007 And wasn't there an emoticon where you scratch your head? I can't find it
Zingari Posted 18 December 2007 Posted 18 December 2007 And wasn't there an emoticon where you scratch your head? I can't find it its on your neck/shoulders
AoWW Posted 18 December 2007 Posted 18 December 2007 its on your neck/shoulders Hmmmm, but this is DB11 - I'm not convinced.
Rincewind Posted 18 December 2007 Posted 18 December 2007 Was your permission asked whether he could use the taped conversation? If not he may be breaking a privacy law. I am pretty sure the 'victms' are asked whether any video clips are used on Beadle/type programs. I few years ago at a previous job I was mucking about with a mini-recorder that I had recently bought when a few of us were called up to the bosses office for a meeting. In the rush I forgot to turn it off so it was running during the meeting. Afterwards I joko funny ased to a workmate that if he forgot what had been said I'd play it back. Unknown to me the foreman overheard and informed the management. I was hauled in front of the boss who said if he could sack me on the spot he would. To cap it all the recording was bad as the thing was in my trousers pocket. They did not see the funny side and were unrepentant when I said it was an accident. So If you are offended by what this bloke done you can take it further if you wish. Your boss/company should not have let anyone into the premises without finding out the purpose for the visit. So they are breaking the H&S law.
Tabou Posted 19 December 2007 Author Posted 19 December 2007 Nightguard... Thanks for the message But it definantly wasn't a jeremy beadle style prank. The bloke was VERY VERY weird. I have no issue with my boss, as he is situated at a different location to me. I am based in an office on the High Street in Corby (might explain why he's a weirdo...) and he literally just walked in as anyone is free to do. He is coming back in in 45 mins anyway...so i shall probe for information/kick his bad asssss Will inform you of the outcome! (Assuming my body isn't thrown into the town's duckpond...)
hairy Posted 19 December 2007 Posted 19 December 2007 Make sure you have some special brew to help extract the information out of him. Corbites love special brew.
Tabou Posted 19 December 2007 Author Posted 19 December 2007 Make sure you have some special brew to help extract the information out of him. Corbites love special brew. I was talking to one of the boys in the office the other day about Corby. Apparently the females in Corby do practice safe sex...they ALSO carry knives...
Rincewind Posted 19 December 2007 Posted 19 December 2007 Is it used brfore or after they take the money?
Guest Posted 19 December 2007 Posted 19 December 2007 Was your permission asked whether he could use the taped conversation? If not he may be breaking a privacy law. I am pretty sure the 'victms' are asked whether any video clips are used on Beadle/type programs. There is no law of privacy, per se, in England and Wales. You are allowed to film or tape record whatever you like, albeit with a number of caveats. I won't go into details, but if you want an example of what little protection there is, why not read up on Kaye v Robertson. It is still applicable.
Fat Ron Posted 19 December 2007 Posted 19 December 2007 Someone walks into your office...asks to speak to me using my FULL name (when I have never ever met this person EVER)...asks to speak to me in the back room...asks you a load of weird questions... is TAPE RECORDING me (he was fiddling with his coat and asked me to speak up..) And to top it all off... www.joegibbons.net This is the physco's website!!! Nice shotgun!! Your ****ed mate.
Fat Ron Posted 19 December 2007 Posted 19 December 2007 Nightguard...Thanks for the message But it definantly wasn't a jeremy beadle style prank. The bloke was VERY VERY weird. I have no issue with my boss, as he is situated at a different location to me. I am based in an office on the High Street in Corby (might explain why he's a weirdo...) and he literally just walked in as anyone is free to do. He is coming back in in 45 mins anyway...so i shall probe for information/kick his bad asssss Will inform you of the outcome! (Assuming my body isn't thrown into the town's duckpond...) As this message was left at 9.13am.... I can only presume that your dead? Please confirm.....
DB11 Posted 19 December 2007 Posted 19 December 2007 As this message was left at 9.13am.... I can only presume that your dead?Please confirm.....
The People's Hero Posted 19 December 2007 Posted 19 December 2007 There is no law of privacy, per se, in England and Wales. You are allowed to film or tape record whatever you like, albeit with a number of caveats. I won't go into details, but if you want an example of what little protection there is, why not read up on Kaye v Robertson. It is still applicable. I'm intrigued but lazy - if you get 5 minutes, could you give me a brief flavour of this, Lisa?
Alexikokopops Posted 19 December 2007 Posted 19 December 2007 I'm intrigued but lazy - if you get 5 minutes, could you give me a brief flavour of this, Lisa? I'd say cheese and onion.
Rincewind Posted 19 December 2007 Posted 19 December 2007 Interesting. Why did my boss infer that I was breaking somer sort of law? I have felt guilty ever since. The conversation I recorded would have been recorded over and only used to confirm any misunderstood parts of the meeting which was to do with the future of our jobs and the way the buisness was progressing. I saw nothing wrong with this. Taking notes in writing would have been allowed. That has always puzzled me. I think I must add that it was an hosiery buisness and I had been with them 25 years plus. Redundancies werre a distint possibility in the future as the lines we produced got fewer. Redundancy came eventually which was decided on a points system mie being poor because of my low production rate and not a very tidy work area. It was in their interest to dispose of me without redundancy payout.
Guest Posted 20 December 2007 Posted 20 December 2007 I'm intrigued but lazy - if you get 5 minutes, could you give me a brief flavour of this, Lisa? The lack of privacy law, or the Kaye case? The Kaye case was Gordon Kaye, aka Rene from Allo Allo. All three judges in the Court of Appeal said that if there was ever time when someone deserved privacy, it was when he's lying in bed recovering from major brain surgery. Basically, the Sport got access to his hospital room and conducted an interview and took some pictures, without GK's consent, in fact he didn't remember it taking place. But the only thing he could successfully claim for was the fact that the Sport took away the opportunity for him to sell an "exclusive", and he got some damages for that. Interesting. Why did my boss infer that I was breaking somer sort of law? Because bosses say that, especially if they think or know you wouldn't know any better. Unless he was concerned about confidential matters of a commercial or personnel nature getting out, then he can't stop you from recording what is said in a meeting, whether in writing or on tape. It wouldn't be covered by copyright, and it most likely wouldn't come under the Data Protection Act.
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