Staff suspended pending inquiry on offensive image

Mobile phone company Vodafone has suspended two employees pending an investigation into a photo circulated online yesterday.

Mobile phone company Vodafone has suspended two employees pending an investigation into a photo circulated online yesterday.

The photograph, on social networking site Twitter, appeared to show a text-based conversation between two shop workers using insulting language about a customer.

The photograph looks like it was taken from in front of a staff computer screen in a Vodafone shop. “The company takes the matter very seriously and has suspended two employees pending a full and immediate investigation,” a statement said. “Vodafone has a zero-tolerance approach to any behaviour that is outside of Vodafone’s rigorous code of conduct.”

Genevieve Carbery

Genevieve Carbery

Genevieve Carbery is Deputy Head of Audience at The Irish Times