more of why I can't use my name

-MIKE- wrote in news:kcigkp$f65$ snipped-for-privacy@speranza.aioe.org:

How clear it is depends on which specific First Amendment freedoms you're talking about. It does not violate the *Constitution* if a private-sector employer fires an employee because of his religion -- because the First Amendment restrains the government, not the private sector. However, it does violate both state and Federal *employment law*.

In employment-at-will states, a company is perfectly free to fire an employee who expresses opinions which the employer doesn't like -- and there is no violation of the First Amendment.

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Doug Miller
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That's certainly true for me. My employment is "at will". I can be fired or I can quit "at will". No justification whatsoever required, except as noted above (i.e. "protected status").

Reply to
Zz Yzx

Yep, you are right. But I need to pay the bills and I took this before knowing. But I have a feeling this won't be the only company like this.

Reply to
woodchucker

Seems to be a growing trend. Schools too, are restricting what faculty can do and say on line. Seem as though Facebook is causing a lot of problems in society as more and more people do dumb things and reveal too much of their personal lives and thoughts.

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Ed Pawlowski

It's the dumb every thing down to the lowest denominator way we do things these days so that those that don't put in the effort have an equal chance. The every one gets a trophy for signing up, mentality. It is knowing that we can control what you say on your own time because if you don't like it we can fire you and hire the person that only gets trophies because he signed up.

The problem is that we live in the real world where our competition does not think that way and they are currently whipping our asses. Banks steal from us because they know that 50% of their customer are below average in intelligence and because we are lowering expectations so that every one has an equal opportunity many many more of us fall below the 50% average intelligence compared to a few years ago..

With our new government health care system Nurse Bubba is going to have an equal chance, to perform brain surgery on you, as the doctor that pioneered the procedure that is about to performed on you. Nurse Bubba's qualifications, three, count'm three trophies. Nurse Bubba won out over intern Guber because one of Nurse Bubba's trophies was for actually participating.

Rant off. :-)

Reply to
Leon

Arguably doing the rest of us a big favor by providing the dickheads with the means to shine the light of scrutiny on themselves ... you can't fix stupid, and it is getting harder to hide.

Reply to
Swingman

So if you screw something up and say "Man, I am such an idiot", that means you can fire yourself for disparaging an employee, right?

Reply to
DerbyDad03

I don't disagree that the company was within its rights to fire the employee, but making a copy of copyrighted material for personal use is not necessarily illegal.

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Larry W

snipped-for-privacy@sdf.lNoOnSePsAtMar.org (Larry W) wrote in news:kclm5l$t88$1 @speranza.aioe.org:

Not if you've already bought a copy, no. You're permitted to make a backup. Doesn't apply in this case, though: he was copying *rented* DVDs, which is most definitely not legal.

Reply to
Doug Miller

Yep. Back in '78 I decided that as long as I was going to work for a fool, that fool might as well be me.

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HeyBub

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