‘What an interesting week.. it must be the shark-week’, it sounded a facebookopslag from the Quest Palmerston Hotel in New Zealand.
the Issue came with a series of images of a sheet with menstruationspletter.
‘Shark-week’ is an English derogatory saying about the time of the month, where the menstrual cycle takes place and refers to hajers blood lust.
in addition to the text was spread ‘adorned’ with hashtags like ‘disgusting’ and ‘shark attacks’.
It writes The Independent.
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the Lookup quickly passed around on social media, and outraged kvindeorganisationen Share the Dignity.
‘There are just no words for this, Quest Palmerston. To udskamme a woman to get her menstrual period and post images on social media. The advert is taken down now, but at this time in bad taste’, writes the organization on its Facebook where they have shared the original lookup.
the Lookup is really enough been taken down, and then it’s instead been replaced with an apology.
‘We apologize deeply for all of the latest postings and comments on the Quest Palmerstons Facebook page that has been removed. This is not consistent with our standards or the Quest Brand. We have addressed the position with the employee responsible’.
In an opinion amplifying the hotel also.
– The unauthorized postings from a Quest Palmerston-employee was deeply disturbing, and we understand the strong samfundsreaktion, it provoked.
– the Employee is responsible for the ad, has been suspended and will now be the subject of an official internal investigation
A large number of people, however, were not satisfied with the apology. The apology on Facebook has gotten a lot of comments, most of whom remain outraged.
‘The question that still needs to be answered is, why is there such a culture in your organisation, that allow the degradation of your paid customers?’, ask Doni Baz.
another type.
‘Is there no respect? How did an employee it is acceptable to write this in the first place? I conclude that the ethics of workplace management is scary, and that it’s just the norm over there?’, she continues.
You can now no longer be required to notify the hotel on their Facebook, since they have disabled the function.
