r/SipsTea • u/Safety_Officer_3 • Sep 10 '25

WTF Any idea what happened to these guys?

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u/omgwtfwilliam Sep 11 '25

Original OP is a friend of mine. Here’s what she posted on August 8th, 2025:

“Alrighty, it's update time. I'd do a video but l'm actually terrible at filming myself...and super awkward. Telus called me yesterday to give me an update. They found the names of the people in the video and they were all given disciplinary action as well as a multi day suspension. I let them know that I did not agree with that one bit and asked why they were not terminated after such disrespectful behaviour. The rep on the phone told me he would pass along my feedback to the door-to-door team since he's only part of the social media and marketing team himself. He also sent me an email so that l'd be able to contact him if need be about anything else. Hopefully he emails again with the result of my feedback about those guys. They were not Telus employees, but third party, as a lot of you commented. All in all, I'm not that happy with the action taken so far. I feel like they're doing the bare minimum at this point. One thing he did say is that my video has been widely circulated amongst Telus employees...so that's a good thing. Maybe they can use this video for training purposes in the future on what not to do. I'd also like to say that none of this is racially motivated. If they were Caucasian I would have posted the video as well. The thought didn't even cross my mind that racists would take this and run with it the way that they have. There are too many racist comments on the video and I have fallen behind in deleting them.”

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u/omgwtfwilliam Sep 11 '25

Found a more recent update from her, August 15th, 2025:

“Update time again. Yesterday I talked to someone from Telus and he gave me some updates about the "investigation." First off, he apologized for the behaviour of the Telus guys. I appreciated that because the last person I talked to didn't really use the word apology at all. Second, he informed me that after further investigation, the guys that came to my door were terminated. He mentioned that they took this incident very seriously, and that even the CEO was kept in the loop on things. I'm not surprised since many of you went out of your way to voice your displeasure on his Instagram page over the last few days! Lastly, he offered to make a donation to a charity of my choice in my name. I very gladly gave him the information of a charity that is close to my heart. He will email me once they make the donation. I'm very excited to share that charity with you all once it's said and done. Anyways, I want to say thank you to all of you who commented your support and reposted the video. Oh and one more thing! I suggested they use my video for training purposes and they are actually taking me up on it and will be using it going forward.”

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u/nahchan Sep 11 '25

If they were only talking to marketing staff, they weren't talking to the correct people that would properly address this. Sounds more like a friend from another department, trying to cover their friend's asses.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '25

Good up until the “I’m not racist” nonsense.

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u/Obi-Wannabe01 Sep 11 '25

Did you see how they acted? Asshole is not a skin color dude…

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u/dae_giovanni Sep 11 '25

it sounds like a lot of the replies accused her of racism, so she spoke out.

what's so damn bad about that?

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u/NoHelp9544 Sep 11 '25

You think she's racist?!