Are You Okay with This?

A woman in the United Kingdom was awarded $40,000 in a lawsuit.  Apparently she called her boss a d--khead and was then wrongfully fired over it. Are you okay with this? 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Are you really okay? Are you alcome? Anything's going to
be okay? Are you okay? Yeah? I'm fine.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm pretty freeing far from okay?

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Are you okay with this?

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Are the Hammer and Nigel Hammer? A woman in the
United Kingdom was awarded a forty thousand dollars payment in
a lawsuit. Apparently she called her boss a d head
and then she was wrongfully fired over it, but she
got paid forty grand Are you okay with this?

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Well? If passing out forty thousand dollars paychecks for a
woman calling somebody a d head is how it works,
and I'm in debt to a lot of women. No,
I'm not okay with this. Like, I don't think that's
how it would work here in America. If I went
to my boss, if I walked back there to David
Wood's office, or if I went upstairs and started yelling

(01:00):
at Andrea and used the d head or something similar,
I wouldn't go to jail. But I also wouldn't be
on the air tomorrow. I'd probably be fired. You can't
just pop off and say that to somebody and then
sue to get money. I don't think that's how this
works now. Your pal Louis is in studio, right, Look,

(01:20):
get up to that microphone.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Here, friend of the family has been spending in the
past two weeks here, had had an internship with Senator
Banks and this is your last couple of days here
in Indy before you start traveling again.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
So how would this be in the UK? You're like
the expert here, right.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
You're the official British correspondent.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Correct. If you went to your job or your supervisor
or your boss back over the pond and called them
a derogatory name, you wouldn't be fired over it.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
I personally that you should be fired over it. I mean,
there's got to be some workplace etique in place. But
on the subject of like suing it, I feel like
there is some similarity with the US, Like a lot
of people will just look trivelous.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah she want she got the money.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
But maybe because it's made such big news, it shows
that it's more of an uncommon case.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Really, you're telling it's something a big picture of the UK.
I'm seeing a lot of people go to jail for
just saying things on social media and saying things out
loud on the streets and in calling people names. Yes,
that's the priceless woman wasn't taken to jail, right, she
was given forty close In my.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
The d headword is a very common word in the
England vocabulary. The whole free speech issue I've been asked
a lot about. I'm more of the opinion that there
should be more of a sort of hard line in
what is free speech and what becomes hate speech. The

(03:12):
case of I've forgotten the woman's name, the Reform she's
she's now an absolute fan favorite of Reform UK. She
made direct reference to inciting violence against one of the
immigrant hotels. Now, I think that's that's not one.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Thing, but offering your opinion and saying is another.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yes, no, no opinion, yeah, And it's a gray line,
but it's it's one thing that I've been asked about.
Like all you Americans think that we have no free speech,
and I think the problem is it's being driven this
idea that we don't buy the likes of Fara.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
What do you mean, you Americans?

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Like I'm just scurving with it, Like all right,