From time to time we’re sure that we’ve all unfriended people on Facebook. Either we unfriended them for personal reasons, like a nasty breakup or a falling out, or because we’re trying to clean up our friend’s list to include only people we actually know, as opposed to having met once or twice.
Now if you’re thinking about unfriending your colleague at work, it would seem that over in Australia, unfriending a colleague can be considered as a form of workplace bullying. This was determined to be the case by the country’s Fair Work Commission while they were investigating a complaint from earlier this year.
Basically an employee at a real estate agency felt that her employers, a husband and wife team, were belittling and humiliating her. Granted there were plenty of instances that she was bullied which included name calling, the fact that one of her employers had unfriended her was found to be a “lack of emotional maturity and is indicative of unreasonable behaviour,” according to the FWC’s deputy president Nicole Well.
Of course whether or not this behavior is constituted as bullying in other parts of the world, like back home in the States, remains to be seen, but what do you guys think of it? Do you think that it does constitute as bullying?
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