[OnTheIce]

Roderick identified the employee as Shawn Simoes, an assistant network management engineer who made $106,510.50 a year.

Ouch.

[Zipperfish]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

I agree that he shouldn't lose his job over this. He wasn't wearing anything that could reflect poorly on the company, but a good fucking beatdown would be a lesson he remembered.

Yeah that too. He sorely needs one.

[xerxes]

Or maybe actually call up that shrimp-dick's mom. See if she really is as proud of her son as he says she is.

[2Cdo]

xerxes xerxes:

Or maybe actually call up that shrimp-dick's mom. See if she really is as proud of her son as he says she is.

Or wait until he's in public with his mom and run up and blurt that out.

[xerxes]

[Thanos]

Company has the right to fire anyone who engages in stupid activity outside of work, even if it doesn't involve the employer in the slightest. No different at all than companies firing or schools expelling any of those dipshits that rioted in Vancouver after the Game 7 losses. Fuck this guy in Toronto in general. He deserved what he got just on general principles alone.

[Canadian_Mind]

I'm cool with him being fired. Consequences for your actions. We don't learn it as kids anymore, so we have to learn it as adults. Someone more sensible and deserving of that 100k a year will soon be earning it.

[Zipperfish]

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

I'm cool with him being fired. Consequences for your actions. We don't learn it as kids anymore, so we have to learn it as adults. Someone more sensible and deserving of that 100k a year will soon be earning it.

I don't have much sympathy for him personally. I just think that companies should mind their own business. He's hired to do math not be the Prince of Peace.

[Thanos]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

I'm cool with him being fired. Consequences for your actions. We don't learn it as kids anymore, so we have to learn it as adults. Someone more sensible and deserving of that 100k a year will soon be earning it.

I don't have much sympathy for him personally. I just think that companies should mind their own business. He's hired to do math not be the Prince of Peace.

Could have been the final straw for them. Ass-clowns like this don't merely let it out when they're being shitfaced and silly. They're generally jerks all the goddamn time. I worked with a guy once who got fired over the way he was behaving at the yearly company golf tournament. Needless to say he acted all the time at work the way he behaved at the tourney. There was literally no one surprised at all, except maybe for him because he was that genuinely dense, when the boss finally lowered the boom on him. Disgracing the company in public was the last time the boss was going to put up with that kind of crap.

[Guy_Fawkes]

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

I'm cool with him being fired. Consequences for your actions. We don't learn it as kids anymore, so we have to learn it as adults. Someone more sensible and deserving of that 100k a year will soon be earning it.

I agree, it's time society stopped tolerating guys like that. Thanos you also make an excellent point.

[Jabberwalker]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

The dumbass got canned
http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/hydro-o ... -1.3070948

Somebody will protect him ... a union ... a lawyer ...

[andyt]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Bit of an over-reaction, if you ask me. People are too thin-skinned these days. Not that I'd ever say anything like that but fer fucks sake you've got police department warning that anyone syaing it will face criminal charges. Like I said--too many cops. If they have time to chase down guys wolf-whistling women then they got too much time on their hands.

Don't agree with firing him either. I would if the guy were at work, but he wasn't, so really, none of their business.

Social humiliation ius an apt punishmnet. The interwebz are good at that.

The guy was earning $105k a year. Presumably that's a responsible position where he represents the company in some manner. People have pointed out that in today's age, where his employer is probably given on facebook, there is a connection to your employer at all times. The employer can argue that it harms their business to have him connected to the company. Hell, maybe his boss just figures that anybody that's such an idiot may not always be on the ball during work either.

These guys sound like 7 year olds who just found out where their dick is supposed to go.

[Lemmy]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

I agree that he shouldn't lose his job over this. He wasn't wearing anything that could reflect poorly on the company, but a good fucking beatdown would be a lesson he remembered.

Agreed. When I was growing up, everyone understood that if you ran your mouth there was a good chance you were gonna get punched in the face. Bosses and Police weren't needed to enforce "the rules". Today, in PC-world, there's no fear. Dumbass mooks figure they can say whatever they want.

But if he stays fired, that sets a very dangerous precedent. When an employer has the power to fire someone for something they did off the clock that's dramatically blurring the line between "work" and "leisure". I really don't think we want to turn the labour market into a mechanism for enforcing private morality.

[OnTheIce]

Lemmy Lemmy:

But if he stays fired, that sets a very dangerous precedent. When an employer has the power to fire someone for something they did off the clock that's dramatically blurring the line between "work" and "leisure". I really don't think we want to turn the labour market into a mechanism for enforcing private morality.

That precedent has already been set.

[Lemmy]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

Lemmy Lemmy:

But if he stays fired, that sets a very dangerous precedent. When an employer has the power to fire someone for something they did off the clock that's dramatically blurring the line between "work" and "leisure". I really don't think we want to turn the labour market into a mechanism for enforcing private morality.

That precedent has already been set.

Well, sort of but not really. The line seems to be moving a little farther all the time in terms of an employers' power to enforce its morals on employees during their personal time. At some point the courts are going to have to weigh in on this. If I were this dude, I'd be calling a lawyer. And even though this mook-pig deserves to be flogged in the court of public opinion, there's no way in hell that his employer should have any grounds to fire him for exercising his right to free speech on his leisure time. The slippery slope is frightening if Hydro One is allowed to get away with this.