I'm glad to hear your cousin was able to come out on the other side okay. That's definitely not easy to do.
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According to the informant, ricin wasn't his first choice but was what he settled on because he thought it would be the toughest to trace back to him since he could (and did) manufacture it himself in his bathroom. For his girlfriend's sake, yes I hope he goes away for a long time, though my feelings on the matter…
From what I understand his clarification made it sound a lot better (his point I mean). And I'm sure they have every right to. As you pointed out his job is PR and his contract almost definitely had some clauses. Heck when I worked at McDonald's they even had some.
The cat lady of the future thanks to this generation of hipsters -_-
I didn't say people didn't have a right to be pissed at him. Or that the NBA was in the wrong to do what they did. I thought I saw somewhere that he disputed that story. Maybe he didn't, not really my problem one way or another. I'm neither a fan of real estate moguls nor pro basketball, so whether he's a racist or…
OH MY GOD SHE JUST TATTOOED ME A FEW WEEKS AGO.
If he's working in a right to work state, he could be fired for less. But he is in their public relations department right? His words reflect poorly on the company, therefore he did a bad job.
A lot of employment contracts actually include clauses like that. And I'd be AMAZED if a community manager for a game company's forums did not have a clause that his publicly espoused views via social media, even on his own time, could not be cause for termination.
How is calling Sterling a victim level-headed? It's like saying a rapist or a murderer is a victim because they have to go to jail.
At this stage of the Donald Sterling saga, I am less disappointed in Donald Sterling for being racist than I am with about 75% of the American people for not having even the slightest clue as to how the first amendment works.
I think you may have that backwards, the internet has always been a "public forum of judgement". Social media just made judging others more accessible.
Companies fire people for behavior that embarrasses them all the time. For instance, the scandal that this guy was commenting on. Donald Sterling didn't say this stuff on the court.
Yeah, and many people before him have been terminated for posting stuff like that on twitter. Such as the one woman, covered on Gawker, who lost her job during an international flight when she joked about not getting aids in Africa.
I have 10k followers on Twitter; when I say something there, it's not just voicing an opinion—it's broadcasting that opinion to an audience of thousands. If I got in front of a room full of 10,000 people and shouted racial slurs, I might not be arrested—because I have the right to say whatever I'd like—but I sure…
Well, there's a reason the Japanese call Twitter The idiot finder.
First ammendment is a government thing and not a company thing. Everyone pulls it out but they don't actually understands what it means.
You are free to speak your mind. You are also free to reap the social consequences of speaking your mind. Both Donald Sterling and Josh Olin have recently experienced that.
I won't cast judgement as to whether he should or shouldn't have been fired, but when you're a public figure on Twitter with thousands of followers (142k, in his case), your tweets aren't just "expressing opinion" - they're public statements that often do represent your employer, especially when you've got a…
Personally, I didn't know that the original version of eenie meenie had the n-word in it. I always heard "tiger".