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Honestly, do you think it's fair to fire from a job someone for a single episode consisting of a single epithet towards a colleague? Say, if only once in a heat

• komali2 8y ago
  >getting drunk at work Er, yea, I'd understand if a coworker got fired for this... "Getting fired" doesn't really make sense as a comparative bar for workplace behavior, considering it's the most dramatic action a company can do (other than I guess sueing). So asking whether two different actions are both equal because they both could cause firing doesn't make sense to me - presumably someone would get fired for stealing office supplies, or pissing on their boss's desk, or throwing a monitor out the window, but that doesn't say anything about how heinous an individual action is. I do think it's fair to fire someone for losing control so much that their level of respect for a colleague drops to the point that they'll level an epithet at them. No matter how frustrated I get with my team, or they get with me, I expect there to always be that baseline of respect.