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So what's next, criticize a teacher and get kicked out of school? Criticize a cop and get arrested (or lose police protection)? Criticize an elected official and lose your right to vote? Speech isn't free if you have to pay for the consequences. While yes, there are limits, but those limits should be held to a point when damageis caused(i.e. telling the world you found a finger tip in your milk shake from whatever fast food joint). In this case, no damage was done to the manager or the company.
What gets me is people believe in someone's right to be a prick more than someone's right to free speech, and that manager was a complete prick acting out because his feelings were hurt. If he were good at his job, he would have brought her in to his office and asked her about it and made his employee feel like he cared about her.
psychobrew
those are different circumstances entirely....at a job the company does not have to "give you free speech" hence towing the company line or not ranting about a supervisor....it's unprofession and in most cases it will cost you your job...if she was good at her job she probably would have jsut been repremanded....instead she got the boot..and diservedly so...A company does not have to give you free speach while you're on the clock, but at home and in your own free time a company can not interfere except in extremely rare cases (and criticising your boss does not count as one -- you'd have to do something like break the law or contract for a competitor). Everyone has criticized their boss before. If you haven't, you aren't human or your job is way to easy. Do you honestly believe everybody that has ever criticized their bossdeserves to get fired? If that were the case, nobody would have a job. If her job performance was that poor, she should have been gone a long time ago.
This board makes no sense. One moment, everybody is complaining because the US is anti socialism. Then something like this happens and all of a sudden everybody is a capitalist. In a socialist country, it's almost impossible to lose your job.In France, you can even hold your boss hostage without getting fired.
Ok, lets put as this.Lets suppose that you are the boss. You just notice that a person (one of your workers) is at MSN, myspace... whatever. Saying a lot of bad things about you. Then you meet this person tomorrow and say "hi" like nothing has happened? If a person can`t make a posture of respect in front of the boss then it doesn`t deserve to be working there. It called work relations for a reason, and a boss has no reason to keep a employer who is not careful enough to not respect the boss in front of him. I mean, if your employee says that you are a **** all the time right at your face, would you keep him just because he is exercing the first admendment? I surely would not.
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