HSBC employees sacked after staging ISIS-style mock execution during team building exercise - Polidicks

[quote]HSBC has sacked a group of employees after they published a video online in which they pretended to be Islamic State militants and carry out a beheading at a go-karting track.In an eight-second video first published on Instagram, a man wearing an orange jumpsuit is shown kneeling on the floor surrounded by five men dressed in black, one of whom is holding a pretend knife.[/quote] source: [URL]http://descrier.co.uk/news/uk/hsbc-employees-sacked-after-staging-isis-style-mock-execution-during-team-building-exercise/[/URL] jesus fucking christ :v:

They're okay funding and banking for terrorism, but JOKING about it? That's a big no-no.

[QUOTE=thejjokerr;48142529]Fired? Really? Wow, we can't even joke about the people that try to terrorize us... I guess their terrorism is succeeding big time.[/QUOTE] As a big company its easier to sack these people now in order to avoid any possible drama if a newspaper picks this up and links the people to the company.

The irony when HSBC's upper people are actually the real criminals here.

should have added a sequence where they launder the hostage money

[QUOTE=thejjokerr;48142529]Fired? Really? Wow, we can't even joke about the people that try to terrorize us... I guess their terrorism is succeeding big time.[/QUOTE] Question is, who thinks making a mock execution video is a good idea? Let alone doing it on company property, which happens to be one of the biggest banking services provider in the world; providing services even to Mexican drug cartels.

[QUOTE=FlashMarsh;48142535]They're okay funding and banking for terrorism, but JOKING about it? That's a big no-no.[/QUOTE] Duh, they'd be losing customers if their workers are making fun of them.

[QUOTE=thejjokerr;48143627]It wasn't on company property, but it was on a company trip so yeah not smart I agree.[/QUOTE] Yeah, a "corporate client party." Sounds even scarier. :v:

My favourite thing about this story is all the articles referring what is clearly a coat-hanger in the video as a "pretend knife".

Firing them is retarded. Gj HSBC, you've legitimised ISIS spreading of terror by deterring a satirisation of them. 10/10 approach to dealing with terrorists. We should obviously abandon all humour and instead empower ISIS further by abandoning a medium of free expression.

[QUOTE=CMB Unit 01;48144080]Firing them is retarded. Gj HSBC, you've legitimised ISIS spreading of terror by deterring a satirisation of them. 10/10 approach to dealing with terrorists. We should obviously abandon all humour and instead empower ISIS further by abandoning a medium of free expression.[/QUOTE] yeah some unknown employees got fired over ISIS, its all over ISIS have won, there's nothing we can do but join their terror ranks

[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;48144114]yeah some unknown employees got fired over ISIS, its all over ISIS have won, there's nothing we can do but join their terror ranks[/QUOTE] Hyperbole is obviously lost on you.

[QUOTE=CMB Unit 01;48144183]Hyperbole is obviously lost on you.[/QUOTE] Hyperbole did nothing but damage your point.

Is it possible that they may have been sacked because it's disrespectful to those who have lost their lives at the hands of terrorists in very public execution videos, rather than because they were taking a pop at IS? It's not acceptable for people to make light of the loss of life.

[QUOTE=CMB Unit 01;48144080]Firing them is retarded. Gj HSBC, you've legitimised ISIS spreading of terror by deterring a satirisation of them. 10/10 approach to dealing with terrorists. We should obviously abandon all humour and instead empower ISIS further by abandoning a medium of free expression.[/QUOTE] Employees making light and "sick bants" about terrorist acts whilst on company time, on a company trip, representing [I]the company[/I] are going to get fired. If they're dumb enough to do something like that, they probably aren't the greatest people for the job.