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You have to understand...no use arguing..he probably belongs to the occupy movement...stoned 90% of the time...
Yeah, well...I figure it's an excuse to use the word abstemiousness; that way I send a bunch of functionally illiterate occupiers in search of a dictionary.
Pfft they need to take some remedial English classes. If things reach the point where using perfectly normal words becomes objectionable and grounds for having to lose your job because there are too many idiots incapable of understanding proper English then something is very wrong.
It is still absolutely the employers choice to decide that which is acceptable, as they cut this idiot's paycheck. Or they did.
The argument that even a private employer can ban the use of a patently inoffensive word is at best weak. (This is a case of public administration.) This panders to both the professionally aggrieved and the ignorant. In either case reason -and reasonableness- are abandoned.
The word discussed here is spelled differently than the offensive racial epithet. One has an a in it, and the other has an e.
One is ancient English, and the other is the German word for black. Leave it to America to fail to see the distinctions.
The argument that even a private employer can ban the use of a patently inoffensive word is at best weak.
Wrong, employment at will means just that. If an employee wishes to speak as he pleases while on company time, he/she is free to stop providing services, and employer is free to cease paying the employee.
99.999% of Americans have no issue with understanding the limits of speech while engaged in an "at will" transaction.
Wrong, employment at will means just that. If an employee wishes to speak as he pleases while on company time, he/she is free to stop providing services, and employer is free to cease paying the employee.
99.999% of Americans have no issue with understanding the limits of speech while engaged in an "at will" transaction.
When there is no intention of giving offense, no offense is given. No one has the right not to be offended anyway.
When there is no intention of giving offense, no offense is given. No one has the right not to be offended anyway.
Actually a lot of tort and anti-discrimination laws in many countries say that the intention is irrelevant that only how offended the receiving party was matters.
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