Don't let this happen to you...

"I got fired from the new job today," a twentysomething man said over a cup of coffee. "But I deserved it. I did something incredibly stupid."

He told me the story of how he had gotten into an argument with a customer, then went to the back and started talking to a coworker. During the conversation, he used a racial epithet to describe the customer. The regional manager overheard, and that was that.

After he was fired, was his free speech rights violated? He had made a racist remark, in a context that would have created or contributed to a hostile work environment. It was an stupid thing to do, and he deserved to get fired for it.

youtube shape

amendment1 image

amendment2 image

amendment3 image

amendment4 image

amendment5 image

amendment6 image

amendment7 image

amendment8 image

amendment9 image

amendment10 image