[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe

There most definitely should be some type of reprimand for what was said.

1) This took place at the workplace - not sitting around in some guy's basement watching the game. This was at the workplace.
2) This was not questioning a person's competence or decision making on the job. This was a personal attack insinuating someone is dumb.

Do this in any company within earshot of an HR rep, and expect to be reprimanded. This is workplace harassment, really. If I had an employee that said this at work about another employee, I would be having a closed-door meeting with said employee, and I would be issuing a written reprimand that goes in his file, and I would also be encouraging this employee to personally apologize.

Just because "well, I thought the mic was off" isn't a valid excuse to me. "Mr Flames" is paid to work with the Flames, and stating that another employee is stupid and/or dumb is absolutely workplace harassment. How does Dougie feel? Sure, he will shrug it off and pretend it doesn't affect him, but who here enjoys being called dumb or stupid by a coworker? Wasn't a teammate, but this person is apparently working closely with the team and travels with them - works closely enough to apparently know Dougie on a personal level according to what he said.

Workplace harassment. Simple as that. Fired? No - unless this person already has reprimands on file for workplace performance/behaviors, I would not think this is deserving of being fired. A simple written reprimand that goes into the employee's file coupled with a personal apology should be all that is needed. I also concur with Mastadon that this shouldn't turn into a witch hunt so that the general public needs to know who it was. It got leaked to the public, and all 'we' need to know as fans (if we need to know anything at all) is that this was dealt with fairly.

I'm not an HR expert but for it to be workplace harassment wouldn't Hamilton have to be a RSN employee?