• legios@aussie.zone
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    I’m a senior manager at a pretty big company.

    That’s something she does on the side, and if anyone in the workplace gave her shit, I would tell them to leave it the fuck alone unless they wanted me to bring HR in to the convo.

    Can people please not be cunts? (I’m an Aussie…)

    Edit: People need to disconnect things. Say there’s leaked nudes (or even just public nudes) of a work colleague. Let’s take it to they used to do porn. Yep, that’s something they did. That has zero impact on their role now or who they are in their role. They don’t deserve shame, or ridicule.

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        That’s fucked up. There’s nothing about that video that was remotely inappropriate for work. Everyone needs to join a union, holy hell.

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          It’s potentially worse, and stupider, than that.

          The bank didn’t fire her specifically because she posted the video where she made a couple faces after trying kombucha. They fired her because her face started to get used for the meme. Completely out of her control, because people started posting “thing I don’t like, thing I like” memes with this format, often times with various political messages. Basically someone else used her face in a “this brings joy, this does not bring joy” meme and she got canned because of the bank’s “image.” As if it was actually her saying these things.

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            I mean, I hope she got a hell of a lawsuit out of that, because damn. Also its a bank so you know they have at least some money.

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              At Will employment. “In a meme” is not a protected class, and a reasonable bank employee could see her meme-attachment having a detrimental effect on business (you don’t have to be in your reasons for firing someone as long as those reasons aren’t protected or being used to hide that you’re firing them for a protected reason). I’d guess she’d have no case in almost any state in the US with their lack of employee protections.

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                And to be clear - she probably got unemployment. “At-Will” isn’t a magic spell.

                Terminating an employee without cause requires them to pay unemployment.

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                  She was terminated “for cause”. To get unemployment, she’s likely to have to fight for it. She’s likely to win, but it’s not a free thing.

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                Gross. Here in Brazil the employers would be bending over backwards to beg her not to sue them for all they’re worth.

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        “We need to protect our innocent company from these scumbag workers at all cost!”

        I assume, they don’t exist to protect workers’ rights.

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        HR where I work is excessively paranoid about terminations. They will want a paper trail of performance failures or argue to death that “then they’ll be able to argue they were really fired for a protected reason. Get me a paper trail of performance failures”.

        Not saying our HR is worker-friendly. They’re just VERY lawsuit-averse.

        Flip-side, I worked at a company that fired anyone for any reason and just kept cash aside for wrongful termination suits. And they had a HUGE HR team, whose job it was to keep the employers happy.