It’s not a pleasant feeling to know there are colleagues in your workplace who think you should be summarily dismissed and marched out of the building, flanked by security. Yet I learned this week that this is my predicament.
As reported by GB News, unidentified BBC employees have been trying to identify me and have me fired for writing in The Spectator. According to one staff member, I need ‘IDing and then sacking’. The stated cause of their ire? That I had been, ‘very happy to breach the terms of (my) employment’, by writing articles accusing the BBC of breaching its own rules on impartiality.
Asked about the messages, a BBC spokesperson told The Spectator: ‘We’re not going to comment on the contents of an internal message board, but we have reminded staff of their responsibilities and the rules when using internal apps such as these.’
For my sanctimonious detractors to pose as guardians of contractual small print is laughably disingenuous.
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