The term whistleblowing can be defined as raising a concern about a wrong doing within an organisation. The concern must be a genuine concern about a crime, criminal offence, miscarriage of justice, dangers to health and safety and of the environment – And the cover up of any of these.
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Or giving a train driver the okay to go?
you don't know much about refereeing do you Karen?
Are you sure this isn't another sex thread Karen?
Or this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFCT-kIDFWE
Oh look, Karen found another new word!
Courtesy of urbandictionary.com:
slang for the action of giving head.
On this basis, I'm not sure that it's terribly appropriate to 'blow the whistle' at work Karen.
Unless you work in the porn industry.
Or you're trying to quickly work your way up the corporate ladder I suppose, in which case it may be of great benefit.
Brings a whole new meaning to 'whistle while you work'!
Whistle blowing is good but like all good things can be used wrongly. American companies have fairly strong ethical policies with confidential phone lines for reporting, I have seen this cynically used to undermine people
Karen - could you investigate 'filibustering' next ?
Here you are Dicky:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster
Karen will be along later to post the entire page.
As usual, the urban dictionary definition is much more entertaining:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=filibuster%20yourself
How to bring a thread down to gutter level in 3 easy steps.
If I was a referee at football. Then yes.
Actually it was six in this case but you make a fair point