• legios@aussie.zone
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    8 months ago

    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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      8 months ago

      You know this chick:

      Those expressions were her reaction to taste testing some kombucha on a video or stream. Those screenshots were grabbed by the internet and used in a similar format to the Drake meme, “Nah that’s bad” "actually I like that

      She worked at a bank. They fired her for it.

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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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        8 months ago

        “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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      8 months ago

      If the actions of an employee will reflect on a company, why shouldnt they have the right to decide to work with someone that doesnt do those things on the side?

      If an america employee went on the news yelling racist things (on the side), shouldnt they company have the right not to work with them?