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Title: HSBC fires 6 employees who staged mock ISIL execution as team-building exercise
Post by: jimmy olsen on July 07, 2015, 08:43:41 PM
How stupid can you get? Mind boggling!?  :wacko:

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/hsbc-fires-six-employees-who-staged-a-mock-isil-execution-as-a-team-building-exercise

QuoteHSBC fires six employees who staged a mock ISIL execution as a team-building exercise

The Associated Press | July 7, 2015 9:51 AM ET

LONDON — HSBC has fired six employees who staged a mock Islamic State-style killing during a team-building exercise.

The Sun newspaper reported Tuesday the footage posted online showed five workers wearing overalls and balaclavas laughing as a South Asian colleague wearing an orange jumpsuit knelt at their feet.

One held a coat hanger as a pretend knife while another held the kneeling man by the shoulders. One employee then yells "Allahu Akbar!" — Arabic for "God is great" — a phrase often used before ISIL hostages are slain.

HSBC says in a statement it had fired those involved in the "abhorrent" video as soon as the Sun brought it to their attention. The company apologized for any offence the video caused.
Title: Re: HSBC fires 6 employees who staged mock ISIL execution as team-building exercise
Post by: Monoriu on July 07, 2015, 08:45:31 PM
 :lmfao:  The best part is that this is a "team building exercise".

As an HSBC shareholder, I am pleased about the cost cutting and PR move  :bowler:
Title: Re: HSBC fires 6 employees who staged mock ISIL execution as team-building exercise
Post by: Malthus on July 08, 2015, 08:42:59 AM
Well, it worked, didn't it?  :hmm:
Title: Re: HSBC fires 6 employees who staged mock ISIL execution as team-building exercise
Post by: Darth Wagtaros on July 08, 2015, 09:22:11 AM
Who thought this would be a good idea? 
Title: Re: HSBC fires 6 employees who staged mock ISIL execution as team-building exercise
Post by: Valmy on July 08, 2015, 09:22:30 AM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on July 08, 2015, 09:22:11 AM
Who thought this would be a good idea? 

Drunk British people.
Title: Re: HSBC fires 6 employees who staged mock ISIL execution as team-building exercise
Post by: Martinus on July 08, 2015, 09:25:56 AM
I bet if they were actual British Muslim people filming a video on how they support a world Caliphate they wouldn't be fired.

But maybe I have a wrong idea about British companies. :P
Title: Re: HSBC fires 6 employees who staged mock ISIL execution as team-building exercise
Post by: Malthus on July 08, 2015, 09:34:09 AM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on July 08, 2015, 09:22:11 AM
Who thought this would be a good idea?

HR!  :D
Title: Re: HSBC fires 6 employees who staged mock ISIL execution as team-building exercise
Post by: Ideologue on July 08, 2015, 09:35:03 AM
Hopefully, the 6 go on to form their own anti-HSBC cell.  They're my least favorite bank, having fucked up my credit over twelve bucks after I had (thought) I'd closed an account of around $6k.
Title: Re: HSBC fires 6 employees who staged mock ISIL execution as team-building exercise
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on July 08, 2015, 09:35:38 AM
Lighten up guys, what a boring fucking world we are creating.
Title: Re: HSBC fires 6 employees who staged mock ISIL execution as team-building exercise
Post by: Martinus on July 08, 2015, 09:35:43 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on July 08, 2015, 09:35:03 AM
Hopefully, the 6 go on to form their own anti-HSBC cell.  They're my least favorite bank, having fucked up my credit over twelve bucks after I had (thought) I'd closed an account of around $6k.

I for one find it odd that there is some behaviour HSBC considers unacceptable.
Title: Re: HSBC fires 6 employees who staged mock ISIL execution as team-building exercise
Post by: Ideologue on July 08, 2015, 09:39:32 AM
I mean, if you're going to default, default large, and never make a partial payment or promise to repay.
Title: Re: HSBC fires 6 employees who staged mock ISIL execution as team-building exercise
Post by: alfred russel on July 08, 2015, 09:42:04 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on July 08, 2015, 09:35:38 AM
Lighten up guys, what a boring fucking world we are creating.

I agree--assuming the team building was to create an act in a skit, it was probably rather hilarious.
Title: Re: HSBC fires 6 employees who staged mock ISIL execution as team-building exercise
Post by: garbon on July 08, 2015, 09:43:26 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on July 08, 2015, 09:35:03 AM
Hopefully, the 6 go on to form their own anti-HSBC cell.  They're my least favorite bank, having fucked up my credit over twelve bucks after I had (thought) I'd closed an account of around $6k.

They gave me a credit card when I had no credit history! :w00t:
Title: Re: HSBC fires 6 employees who staged mock ISIL execution as team-building exercise
Post by: Malthus on July 08, 2015, 09:52:37 AM
Quote from: alfred russel on July 08, 2015, 09:42:04 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on July 08, 2015, 09:35:38 AM
Lighten up guys, what a boring fucking world we are creating.

I agree--assuming the team building was to create an act in a skit, it was probably rather hilarious.

I assumed it was to demonstrate what would happen if you missed a payment.  :ph34r:

Come to think of it, that would be awesomely hilarious.  ;)
Title: Re: HSBC fires 6 employees who staged mock ISIL execution as team-building exercise
Post by: KRonn on July 08, 2015, 12:48:43 PM
Quote from: Malthus on July 08, 2015, 09:52:37 AM
Quote from: alfred russel on July 08, 2015, 09:42:04 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on July 08, 2015, 09:35:38 AM
Lighten up guys, what a boring fucking world we are creating.

I agree--assuming the team building was to create an act in a skit, it was probably rather hilarious.

I assumed it was to demonstrate what would happen if you missed a payment.  :ph34r:

Come to think of it, that would be awesomely hilarious.  ;)

:D