05-13-2015, 07:20 AM
(05-13-2015, 06:24 AM)Duchess Wrote:
What do you think about people being fired for things they say away from their work, things that have nothing at all to do with their job? Is this okay and reasonable in your eyes?
Tough question, really. Different circumstances call for different outcomes.
Consider the forced resignation of the police commissioner in wolfboro who was overheard in a diner calling Bama a nigger. He was eating lunch with a friend, not on duty, and calling Bama a nigger had nothing to do with his job as police commissioner-yet those remarks caused such an uproar, that he was forced to resign a position that he held for many years.
Or how about the teacher that said children were little bags of germs on Facebook-she was terminated for that statement. She didn't say 'the children in her class' or 'Her children' Her statement was simply "Children are little bags of germs". Most people know that already-but she was fired for it.
I think, as a business owner, it's about who you would want your company to be known for...
Say you owned a car dealership, and one of your salesman went bar hopping every night and shouted "I love to fuck prostitutes!" all the time. Neither barhopping or prostitutes have anything to do with selling cars, but I wouldn't want my customers to think that I supported bar hopping and prostitutes, so I would either have to fire his stupid ass, or take out a full page ad that says "Regardless of what my employees say, I do not support fucking prostitutes"
Yeah, I'm rambling-time for another cup a coffee.