I put it to you that if employers cared about this, they would do something in the hiring process, they would aslo incentivize right behavior outside the workplace.
I only see them covering their asses.
The people that would stop doing business with this company over what an employee does outside the workplace are only putting a noose around their heads, they’d better align their core values to their employers, who don’t have any, they just go with whatever is publicly perceived to be acceptable.
The landscaping company probably has a “Core Values” clause in the contract Mr. Pisone signed when he was hired, which outlines the values Mr. Pisone was expected to uphold and respect, and when he didn’t, he was terminated.
Corporations policing (okay, “incentivizing”) what employees do in their time off, that sounds… dystopian.
…man, that sounds like he was likely to set up unions in the workplace… Many of the arguments said here could be spun this way, if the employee in question was showing too loud, too public, and too leftist opinions. The underlying principle is the same.
That’s not really comparable to antagonizing people who are protesting peacefully and brazenly calling a black guy a ‘ni**er’ and making chimp noises at him.
Let’s not move the goalposts here. This was harassment, pure and simple.
I get profoundly uncomfortable with the idea that because I support lbgt rights, hobby lobby can fire me. I am not super excited that a picture of me at burning man would get me canned if I worked at the local hospital.
Someone should (figuratively) kneecap this dudebro*, but employment has nothing to do with it.
Just because people could be racist/sexist/whateverist douchecanoes consequence-free in the past, means we shouldn’t call them on it now? And if their employer decides to cut them loose? Too bad, so sad.
it’s a fictitious tornado, but interesting enough the word tornado was originally the name of a city in Spain and also the term for a patriarch from that city (they were renowned for being blowhards)
Francis Drake even wrote a comedy for the Elizabethan stage based around this city, The two Gentle Men of Tornado. Some people have disputed as to whether or not Drake actually wrote this play but the evidence is that he most definitely did because it was his habit to always put one word that he’d learned when plundering Spanish galleons in every one of his plays that was unique to that play (for this reason we can assume that Drake knew 3 words of Spanish). - that word was aficionado.
In the opening act one of the main characters, Melvino, describes himself as an aficionado. It is supposed that this were the word first enters into English usage and became associated with the concept of being a ‘Gentle man’.
Walking up to and harassing people who were peacefully protesting, calling a black person a ni**er, and making monkey noises at him is not right, you are correct.
And no, this doesn’t mean that I think people should be fired for having the ‘wrong opinions’. This is so far past that that it would take the slipperiest of slopes to reach the new goal posts. This wasn’t private, it wasn’t personal, and it wasn’t harmless.
This isn’t something you just slip up and do when you’re an otherwise decent human being.
