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Today he received phone call from his boss, who's been sniffing around the drum forum (even though he's not the remotest bit interested in drums) and has asked him to retract his comment. He's also told him he shouldn't be taking part in internet forum discussions whilst he's off work. Furthermore, the boss' friend (who used to work at the same place, but who now freelances for them for extortionate amounts of money - in cash) also called my hubby wanting to talk about said comments. Naturally, hubby hung up on the guy. Just to put the cap on all this, one of the techs from the workplace has got himself a login to the forum and has posted one solitary comment to the effect that the forum peeps shouldn't listen to hubby because he doesn't know what he's talking about. We guess the boss has put him up to this. It's backfired because hubby has a lot of support and respect from the forum, many of whose members know him personally.
So there he was, looking to getting back to work, and now this - it's probably put him back several weeks, healthwise. A lot of people have said this is pure workplace bullying, which we would both agree with. It seems as though the boss is just trying to find a way of getting some sort of disciplinary procedure in place. We suspect he's already had someone go through hubby's PC at work looking for anything untoward (which they're unlikely to find, seeing as how there's nothing untoward there) to use against him. The question is, is there any action we can take in terms of grievances etc. either via the trade union or via any kind of tribunal that hubby can take to bring this guy up short and get some sort of recompense for the grief they've given him? As I said, it's not just this incident - there have been other things, but this is just the icing on the cake.