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I have no idea what this was about but I worked in a global bank about 15 years ago and my coworker and I would do all our less PC-friendly chatting on the messenger system in a foreign language (non-Latin characters) so it wouldn’t get flagged. Have to be pretty dumb to send stuff like that in an email, but I came across some crazy stuff in discovery documents between traders. Like how dumb can you be.
Same 6 that were fired for harassing a gay employee or was this another group? Not being able to use gay slurs and an abuse people should definitely be a protected right?
Why do you view their free speech right as so-called harassment?
Ever heard of a contract? It's an agreement you sign with an employer that dictates the terms under which one provides a service in exchange for financial compensation. Should either party violate those terms- for example, breaching an employee code of conduct, the other is within their rights to terminate the arrangement. This has SFA to do with how 'woke' something is, and everything to do with following company procedure, as one tends to do in a large corporation where business success ranks over personal opinion by nature.
I know getting a job is mostly a hypothetical for many of you, but come on. Be an adult.
Simply pathetic how much people hate free speech and jokes.
I can understand why they felt the need to fire people like that.
Jokes can be insulting, disrespectful, unsafe, and disturbing to many people.
They just want to keep the environment safe.
There are good reasons to hate free speech. Because it would be disturbing when someone blurts out a death threat, or insults someone using swear words
You are at work. Act that way. I say that as a huge free speech advocate. But there is a time and a place for everything. Understand when you are not on your own time. Say your spicy things outside of company property, like at lunch or after work.
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