My position on this has always been unchanged since people started getting disciplined for private stuff years ago: what you do on your personal time, unless its illegal, should be completely immune from any workplace punishment. Absolutely, 100%, even if you work for Coke and are drinking Pepsi, even if you work in a daycare and are a member of NAMBLA. People’s personal lives should be their own. If I owned a business, or are a manager, just out of principle, I would refuse to let that affect how I would treat employees during work. Even to my detriment, because fuck that shit
I used to dislike old people. Then I became one. Now I dislike young people. But I’d never blog about it.
I wish people would stop dwelling on this. As I see it, she’s got a perfect alibi: she was doing it to get hits on her blog. Both liberals and conservatives should be wary of taking a self-confessed crime with no support and a “(maybe)” qualifier as gospel. Whatever she may have done, she’s still innocent and not guilty until proven so. She doesn’t deserve to be fired or disciplined
In an interview, she said that the one that seemed to bother her bosses the most was napping in the news van. Unlike the other ones, I see no problem with that. Journalists need to squeeze in naps where they can.
She didn’t. That just means you don’t read with comprehension well. Perhaps you’d like to hire me – I’m pretty good at reading with comprehension – to read your legal documents for you … you could be getting yourself in trouble.
Thank you, Bricker, for that authentic bit of message board gibberish!
Well, as soon as the the parents found out that YogKidKare was hiring NAMBLA members, you would soon have no more customers and the NAMBLA guy would lose his job when you shut down. Or would you keep paying him out of your own pocket even after you went out of business just as a matter of principle?
Hardly seems necessary, if their face has been burnt off.
Most of the list looks like things I’d expect from a throwaway “Confession Bear” on reddit. Some things you just shouldn’t admit in public, even if there isn’t anything illegal or wrong about it.
She said “I’ve stolen mail and then put it back. (maybe)” Is that an admission? Really? Or is she just being really snarky? I don’t think she “admitted” to a “felony”.
Pure snark. She even calls herself a smarty pants on her twitter page. I guess the humor in the blog went over most people’s heads.
Perhaps the “maybe” is in regards to putting it back…
Exhibit A in understanding why you dont own a business. Although Im betting you are posting in the manner that cant be mentioned here.
LOL. Let me guess… you’ve never been in a hiring and firing position, have you?
Additionally, never will, dollars to donuts.
Really? You’re going to blame everyone else for reacting to her mistake? Of course she was trying to be snarky, cutesy, trendy, edgy, whatever. What she wasn’t being, was smart.
You are in a job in the public eye. Fuck up, and your fuck-up is in the public eye. Your employer, who is in the “public-eye” business, so to speak, fires you for being an embarrassment. It seems that simple. She created a personal blog, put her name on it, and fucked up. She made herself an embarrassment to her employer, and they cut her loose. This is not because they “didn’t get it”, it’s more a case of HER “not getting it”.
You have no idea what freedom of speech means.
My problem now is that I won’t be able to concentrate on the news anymore. I’ll be too busy trying to determine the bralessness or otherwise of the female reporters.
Um … the freedom to speak the truth as one sees it?
What do YOU think it means?
Argumentum ad hominem, baby. When come back, bring an actual argument.