FROntline

FROntline blog on the frontline.

Why is this blog moderated now?

Quite a few members have submitted this question and here’s the response from the FRO blog team:

This blog was intended to be open to all comments regardless of their origins or content and we had it open for almost 4 months until messages became extremely dirty from current and a former FRO manager. These messages include filthy terms like pu**y, di** heads, a**holes and other well inspired “F” words. It is amazing how the language used reflects the users’ minds.

We have also received some equally dirty messages from some FRO managers’ cheerleaders, threatening to “kick the hell of the Moderators’ a**s.

By using foul messages, managers and their little bunch of cheerleaders attempt to make this blog shift to a different direction and steer away from its main purpose, because this blog does indeed reveal the true nature of FROntline staff problems, which so far, nobody has been able to bring up for discussion.

FRO management is so concerned by this blog to the ridiculous extent of spreading words among staff that the police have launched an investigation to find the users of this blog so they can prosecute them. This is an attempt to scare people away from using the only tool they have to express themselves without risk of confrontation.

A year ago, while we were preparing to create this blog, FRO blog team consulted with some legal and admin experts, some of which are senior staff in the OPS. We were advised of our rights and obligations to run this blog. A recent consultation showed that there was nothing illegal about FROntline blog. In fact, we understand that attacking moderators or users contravenes the applicable law.

Managers and their cheerleaders were particularly angry at some users who named names in their comments because the people named had families. Well, they must understand that those staff members who have been denied promotions have families too. Those who’ve been intimidated and humiliated because they spoke their minds have families, too. Those who are singled out because they refuse to play the usual immoral game have families, too.

If managers were really concerned about their families, then they should have at least kept their perversion away from the workplace. All managers who fool around with FRO female staff at work or outside are all married and have kids. At the end of the year, they probably receive some appreciation certificates for their contribution to solve family issues in Ontario!

So, instead of investigating this blog, which is nothing but a communication tool, let FRO investigate staff’s concerns outlined within and put an end to the ongoing immorality within FRO.

We have received an email from an anonymous staff who said that around March 08, a letter was sent to the Deputy Minister regarding misconducts at FRO. She was urged as the Ethics Executive in the Ministry to intervene, but apparently she didn’t even care.

This staff said that the ADM email encouraging staff to solve their issues with managers or other internal committees showed how she was unaware of the inefficiency of these committees or tha she was simply too appalled by the news that FROntline blog brought to her regarding her senior staff. Maybe she found herself in the midst of a real brothel and didn’t know how to handle it.

We have decided to continue blocking all messages that contain dirty language and we will let all other postings go through regardless of opinions expressed within.