Ok Colleagues - What Shall We Do ?

[Bazile]

Is this sort of behaviour appropriate on a team building exercise

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33424034

[tonyav]

No it's not, the bank where right to sack them imo.

[ummmm]

Are there any circumstances where it would be deemed appropriate?

[Tilly2]

They should have built a raft, then they'd still be afloat.

Idiots.

[mushroom25]

//Are there any circumstances where it would be deemed appropriate? //

in a ricky gervais comedy, probably. but, there's a lot worse that goes on in "team building" exercises than this, but never gets aired.

[Old_Geezer]

It isn't appropriate behaviour but I would have thought a warning would have been sufficient. I doubt if the contract stipulated no mock beheadings to be put on the Internet. Puts the employer in a bad light so I guess that was the justification but is seems harsh to me.

[Ellipsis]

At the foot of the article ...

> More on this story
>
> HSBC plans to cut 8,000 jobs in the UK in savings drive
> 9 June 2015

Queue up here, you muppets ...

[tonyav]

Makes you wonder what their mind set was.
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/allahu-akbar-hsbc-bankers-fired-over-mock-execution/ar-AAcDOKp

[ubasses]

Had they not posted it on the Internet they may have got away with it scot free. If the Trainers decided to report up the line a written warning would probably of been the outcome. Unfortunately they have a contract which clearly states 'You must not bring the Bank into disrepute. So they volunteered themselves to be part of the 8,000.

[Peter Pedant]

Oh dear I am out ona limb again

This is to do with obedience to authority and whether it leads you to do narty narty things. We were only just all intensely discussing this in relation to superior orders and in the tube bombings being told to abandon the injured

yeah yeah cue thirty thousand Whaaaaa's ?

and here the idea very obvious to me is a group being directed even to cross lines ( here acting out a beheading ) and then discussing why they had behaved thus

cue Milgram experiments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

got people off the street in New York and told them the experiment involved them electrocuting transgressors

the idea was to question the refusers but they found questioning the obeyers much more interesting

Yup mIlgram
I feel sorry for all concerned

OK putting on the internet was crossing a line too far .....

[Gromit]

It sounds bad, but we do not know the context of the film.

8 seconds without knowing what happened before and after, it is not fair to judge.

[woofgang]

While I take your point PP, I am not sure where you get the evidence for your theory? Even assuming that you are correct, I am sure that there would have been less contentious scenarios to use....and videoing it???

[Baldric]

Perhaps they could have used them to open the first Syrian Branch!

[-Talbot-]

Absolute Bankers....so who cares!

[janbee]

Bankers... with a capital W

[Ellipsis]

I suspect, especially as it was the bank's legal division, that there is a pretty clear case that this was all their own doing and not forced upon them by the training company or their senior employees. You don't sack a lawyer unless you're pretty sure of your grounds ...

[Gromit]

// One banker then pretends to execute his prisoner with a coat hanger. //

Let's Ban Coat Hangers!

[ukbod2015]

I visit go kart tracks and never been offered a balaclava so it must have been premeditated.

[tonyav]

Let's Ban Coat Hangers!


Definitely, Gromit. Especially those that snap if you hang anything heavier than a shirt on them.

[New Judge]

Having taken part in numerous "team building events" in my working lifetime I can say without any hesitation or doubt that they are an absolute and complete waste of everybody's time and money (bar that of the organisers, of course). Whoever dreamt up the idea must be close to being certifiably insane (they probably did it during a "brain storming" exercise). Those managing companies who persist in keepeing the farce alive must be close up behind them.

This article confirms my contentions.

[mushroom25]

//Let's Ban Coat Hangers! //

but what can we then use for car aerial replacements?