Your votes please

[Hecktix]

Oh **** sorry I meant the person who showed you haha.

[Tintinnabulate]

If it was a member of my department and they made such comments on the forum Id ensure they were gone.

The staff is a manager so it should apply to them also. Giving them just a warning is useless.

[Erotica]

A warning if it was an isolated incident, but if it was something that was done often then yes I believe they should be fired.

[gangstaagent1]

Regular staff have been fired for this in the past... The manager should be setting a better example... So I imagine the manager should be fired too? They should be setting an example and if they think it is bad for staff to do it, shouldn't they be setting a better one?

[Grig]

I wouldn't tolerate such remarks, so I would either give a last and serious warning or even consider firing them. I certainly wouldn't put up with such remarks in my department either. Managers should be setting an example, not being stupid and saying such comments, no matter what department they manage etc.

[Alex3213]

I voted yes. I think there should be a "warning" if it is minor (mainly applies to being rude) or if the member of staff/manager isn't generally rude or racist. I know I wouldn't accept it because I'm 100% against racism and would rather not work with someone like that. As I said though, if their record is (almost) completely clean, unless it caused major offence they should be given a last chance.

EDIT: Just read Grig's post. To cut it short, agree with him fully.

[ihatehash]

TBH I can be quite racist in real life when talking to my friends but I would never be racist to someones face. I reckon this manager should be fired or at least demoted from manager.

[xxMATTGxx]

Interesting views. To confirm that the person did not say any messages directly to this person or has a record of such comments before.

[Inseriousity.]

Certainly, I see no reason for anyone (but especially a staff member/manager) to say 'so and so is a ****' etc. What context would make that in any way justified? If it was a shared joke between said person and staff member and they took it as a joke then that'd be okay. However, the problem with talking about someone behind their back is that these things don't always remain private as seen here, so managers/staff/members should be really careful what they say!

[Mathew]

It seems it was said behind your back too.. that makes it even worse!
Yeah I'd fire them. When they're constantly banging on to their staff telling them off and encouraging them to follow rules, it just makes everything go to pot when they can't set the example themselves.

Time for a couple of quotes from Lee Cockerell's book (The Great Leader Strategies)... "Remember they're always watching you, you will slip up and you will be caught" and also "setting an example is the best form of training you could ever recieve"