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Rumour Multiple GWS players are set to be suspended to start the 2025 season after distasteful costumes and skits from their post-season function

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Obviously permitted in context. You want to criminalize jokes do you?
But there is a time and a place for such jokes if you are so inclined

Work related function in a public facing role for a big company that gains most of its money from advertising wouldn’t be the best platform I would say
 
If the players paid for the venue hire and not the club then it's not a work related function.

Did the club pay for the venue hire?
It doesn’t matter in these matters
 

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But you're hear telling us all what you think about this incident.

So you can't have an opinion then?
I’m not telling anyone what to think, it literally doesn’t matter what you or I or anybody else thinks

My point is that it’s completely between the players and the AFL if they have breached behaviour clauses in the contracts

As it would be with any employer and employee in a similar situation
 
Well it does.

If it's not club organised it's private.
It’s not private if it’s at a venue because of the staff members of the venue present

Only way it’s private if it’s held at a house without any 3rd party catering, security, ect
 

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Venue copping it both barrels in their reviews. Zero sympathy.
I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. All they did is make a complaint, which they have every right to do.

They didn't ask for $20,000 fines and suspensions. Probably just a personal and private apology from the parties involved would have done the trick for them, and a voucher or three from a sponsor wouldn't have hurt.

The fines, the suspensions and the publicity - that's the AFL's fault.
 
It’s not private if it’s at a venue because of the staff members of the venue present

Only way it’s private if it’s held at a house without any 3rd party catering, security, ect

Wrong.

Even the venue's label such events as "private" functions.

If staff are leaking information of events to outside parties then they need their sorry arses fired.
 
That distinction doesn't apply now and hasn't applied for a very long time. Most workplaces no longer treat unofficial or non-affiliated events as being off-limits for sanctions if the behaviour is bad enough.
I work for a asx50 company and our line communicated from our MD that a gathering of colleagues outside of the workplace does not constitute a work event. If the business is paying, different story.

Ie sort it out yourself if you have issue with someone else's behavior
 
There are a few things i think people miss with these sorts of controversies.

Firstly, joking or making light of something isn’t the same as supporting or condoning it. Humour is about crossing lines and so much of the best comedy is ‘dark’ in this way.

Second, context is important. We aren’t members of the GwS list, so when these antics are described to us in a clinical and journalistic way, they of course come across as unfunny and weird. We don’t ‘get it’, and how would we? There’s a reason the saying ‘you had to be there’ is a bit of a trope.
 

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Wrong.

Even the venue's label such events as "private" functions.

If staff are leaking information of events to outside parties then they need their sorry arses fired.
"Private" just means exclusive and not open to the general public, it doesn't mean "our lips are sealed and we keep your secrets".

When we refer to the "private sector" or "private ownership", we pretty clearly don't mean "everything is a secret".
 
Wrong.

Even the venue's label such events as "private" functions.

If staff are leaking information of events to outside parties then they need their sorry arses fired.
I think you will find you are very much incorrect
 
That distinction doesn't apply now and hasn't applied for a very long time. Most workplaces no longer treat unofficial or non-affiliated events as being off-limits for sanctions if the behaviour is bad enough.
Yeah that has changed over the years, hasn't it.

I remember sending around emails organising the pub on the last day of work - you'd always have the old "this is not an official work sanctioned event" tacked on.

Then we got training saying you could still be in violation of workplace rules if you did bad shit.

Then we got training saying it can be considered bullying (or something) if you don't invite everyone. (Like it can be mean to exclude people but sometimes you just have separate groups at work you know)


To think if we all followed the "Don't be a dick" rule we wouldn't need all of this imposed upon us.
 
I work for a asx50 company and our line communicated from our MD that a gathering of colleagues outside of the workplace does not constitute a work event. If the business is paying, different story.

Ie sort it out yourself if you have issue with someone else's behavior
Yes, that's the case for us too (I work for a global aerospace company), because the company does NOT want to be held legally liable if things go wrong.

However, it is made clear that our behaviour in such an event is still subject to sanction. For example, someone tried to inappropriately corner and crack onto an intern half their age at an unofficial Christmas pissup a few years ago and almost got sacked (but for the intern refusing to press it).
 

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