But can’t an employee be fired for any reason? Firearm owner is not a protected class.
As I understand it, employers can fire employees for any reason they want or no reason at all (as long as the reason isn’t membership in a protected class), but employers have to pay unemployment insurance, and firing people for bad or no reason makes that cost go up significantly, so most employers would rather not.
An independent contractor is not an employee, and that is explicitly stated in the DoorDash agreement. So a contractor cannot be ‘fired’, but the company can refuse to do further business with the contractor, at the discretion of the company.
Employers can fire anyone at anytime if it’s an “at will” situation. Not all states have that law and not every job allows that. There are jobs subject to contracts too. I’m in a union and I can’t be fired from my job arbitrarily due to our CBA (which is a kind of contract).
ETA: Here’s a map with a bit of info:
Montana is the only state that fully disallows at will employment (after a 6 month probation).
As you can tell from the map it’s not consistent or simple.
I guess my point is, if Door Dash wants to kick him to the curb, they can do that. So their judgement does matter. I can’t imagine this guy keeps his job after shooting someone on the job.
Wow, that’s a poor choice of map coloring. Yellow, orange, and three different shades of gray? And the darkest shade of gray is the exact opposite of the second-darkest?
Yeah, I read and read the key about 3 times because I couldn’t believe they had done that. I hope for their own sake that the graphic designer who’s responsible for that map doesn’t work in… um… Florida? Or is it Montana?
After the fact, yes.
Yeah, it’s highly doubtful that DoorDash will offer him any more opportunities.
It was a shitty choice of colors yes. 
Yeah, unless “This person makes orders complicated, take care of it”
back on topic …
the headline speaks for itself:
Brazilian priest died after tying himself to 1,000 balloons and being found in ocean months later
is it cynical to talk about having got a promotion?
Happened in 2008.
Precisely… Something that happened 15 years ago is hardly “news”.
To be fair, it is a new article about it for some reason. I was just tipped off because I remember it from when it happened. There was a long thread about it here:
But since there is no new information on it, it isn’t news, by definition.
Note that UNILAD is a “media company”, not exclusively a news site, so not every article on that site is news. Their menu has eight categories other than “news”, one of which is just called “weird”. Just because an article is on a website, that doesn’t make it news.
Old news about a priest’s ill health after a crash landing.
Well, not yet.
Dan
Isn’t the firearm owner protected by the firearm?
[Glinda] Are you a good firearm owner or a bad firearm owner? [/Glinda]