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A county school bus driver in Georgia was fired in 2013 for posting about a hungry student passenger who claimed he didn’t have enough money to get lunch at school. “As a tax payer … I would rather feed a child than to give food stamps to a crack head,” the driver wrote. School board officials didn’t take the critique well, and in fact found no proof that the boy went without lunch. County school board policy stipulated that “disciplinary procedures” apply to employees who post on social networking sites and cause disruption to the instructional environment. The bus driver refused to recant and apologize, so he was fired.
Waitress fired for Facebook gripe
A North Carolina waitress is out of a job after griping on her Facebook page about the $5 (€4) tip she got from a couple who sat at a table for three hours. The waitress said the customers kept her at work an hour after she was supposed to clock out.
As you may recall, 10 years ago on March 10, the Dixie Chicks were on tour in London. Under President George W. Bush’s command, the U.S. was preparing to invade Iraq under the alleged belief that Saddam Hussein was hiding “weapons of mass destruction.” Like many people in the U.S. and the rest of the world who opposed the war from the start, more than 1 million Brits had marched again the impending invasion. Maines looked out over the audience at Shepherd’s Bush Empire Theater and said, “Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.”
Maines’ comments were a country career killer. The reaction was swift, brutal and ongoing. It included stations boycotting the group and fans burning their CDs. Regardless of whether one agreed with her views, the unofficial blacklisting
Alberto Iber lost his job as the principal at North Miami Senior High School after he wrote a comment about the McKinney, Texas incident on the Miami Herald’s website.
“He did nothing wrong,” Iber wrote. “He was afraid for his life. I commend him for his actions.”
Was Mr. Iber removed from his job because he defended a police officer or was he removed because he defended a white police officer?
The moral of this story, social media is not where you vent.
originally posted by: Sremmos80
a reply to: EternalSolace
I didn't say it was exclusive to fox, just that they complain about how people need to stop doing it all the time.
So just that they are hypocritical, which I am sure NBC is too.
If you sign a contract that says that you represent the company/school ect.. than you can get fired for misrepresenting them.
Not a breach of your first, not even close.
At the very least, you should be forced to give the names of those who turned them in and turn over all records of the event and the consequences in a harassment case against those who reported them.
How does one intentionally misrepresent a company or school?
If you say something anyone doesn't like, regardless of what it is, you could be terminated.
Sorry. My view is that if you are severely punishing people for views that are not being said in your place of work loudly and vociferously constantly and don't constitute any sort of violence advocation or amount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, then it amounts to intimidation.
At the very least, you should be forced to give the names of those who turned them in and turn over all records of the event and the consequences in a harassment case against those who reported them.
Because, let's be honest, if you're taking the time to look up people's employer and taking the time to contact them just because they say something you don't like, you're pretty well easily described as harassing somebody.