Advice
Looking at porn at work?
Oct 29th
Does anyone really need to tell you that this is inappropriate and undoubtedly a fire-able act? DUH! Well, if other people are doing it…
Sure, that’s a valid excuse (may be for your mother). But even parents will have a quick comeback for such a lame excuse. Would you jump off the bridge if everyone’s doing it? I guess the police are excluded. An Illinois police officer was fired earlier this week for browsing pornography while at work. His excuse – even the Chief has pornographic imagery on his work computer, as well as pornographic magazines around the police headquarters. That’s great. Wait to you hear what the Chief said… “there is a difference between a Playboy magazine and the “hard core, obscene” images found on Hurst’s [the fired officer] computer,” Police Chief Michael Reidy stated after he decided that Hurst’s habit of looking at online porn violated department policy.
Wow. Don’t you feel much safer knowing that the Police department is out there, “serve and protecting,” and making sure that their Read the rest of this entry »
Home Depot fires employee in a clear violation of the First Amendment
Oct 28th
Recently, a Home Depot employee has been fired for wearing a button on his uniform. The button was not offensive in any way, but rather 
carried a “Under God” message in support of the US troops. Home Depot has said in statement that “The company’s dress code policy states that we do not allow non-company buttons, regardless of their message or content.” Many of us will rightfully see this as a violation of the first amendment – our right to free speech. But who is it that we are angry with?
Can your employer’s policies violate your freedom of speech? If you’ve answered ‘No’, think again! As a matter of fact, according to this publication issued by the US government (USCIS), there is little the Bill of Rights provides that would prevent employers from violating your constitutional freedoms with their policies.
The U.S. Constitution’s free speech protections apply only to action by the government.
According to the Lancaster Law Blog, two instances of case law (Geary v. U.S. Steel Read the rest of this entry »
Romance at work will get you Fired!
Oct 26th
Ah, my dear Mr. Phillips, which head were you thinking with? I’ll assume it’s the same one that you used when you framed the New York Mets’ 2002 roster. There isn’t a Mets fan out there who has wholeheartedly enjoyed Phillips’ self-tooting and Met-bashing tenure at ESPN. And there are just as many who have been waiting for a moment such as this, where they can share in a feeling of some sort of restitution for the mess that the former GM left behind in NY. The marriage between Phillips and ESPN has come to a close. That’s the second marriage that Phillips will lose due to this incident – his wife filed for divorce back in September. Not many people can relate to baseball. But many of us can indeed relate to the story.
Steve Phillips fired from ESPN
Steve Phillips, a former MLB General Manager, and ESPN analyst (Sports Center, Baseball Tonight, ESPN Baseball) has been fired by the network after a revelation of a romantic affair with a 22-year-old production assistant, Brooke Hundley. Following a one-week suspension after Phillips admitted to the affair, ESPN (which is owned by Disney – a family network) decided to fire Phillips for his antics Read the rest of this entry »
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