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> what people consider to be “the country of freedom” Yeah, no. It's a country where it is the norm to be fired on the spot and without recourse for something
by column 6y ago
> what people consider to be “the country of freedom”
Yeah, no. It's a country where it is the norm to be fired on the spot and without recourse for something that has nothing to do with your job. Where cops can size any amount of money you have in your car for no reason. It's the motherland of profits and ads over privacy! US tries to sell itself as “the country of freedom” but I believe the world has come well aware this is BS and you may be much more free in the EU.
- pc86 6y ago> it is the norm to be fired on the spot and without recourse for something that has nothing to do with your job You're going to have to prove that it's the norm because it's never happened to me, or anyone I have ever interacted with. In a country of 350 million people you can pull out half a dozen examples of anything. But please point me to a single peer-reviewed study that shows it's normal or expected to be fired in the manner you describe. You can't.
- jgwil2 6y agoI don't think the parent means it is the norm for this to happen to most people, but rather that at-will employment[0] is the norm and this is a possibility, however remote, that most people have to reckon with. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
- pc86 6y agoThere is quite a bit of difference between "it is the norm to be fired on the spot and without recourse for something that has nothing to do with your job" (a direct quote, I don't believe missing any context but open to counterarguments) and "a legal framework exists in which a thing could conceivably happen, even though it doesn't happen in any statistically significant numbers"
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- jgwil2 6y agoFair enough; the comment is a bit hyperbolic. The larger point that this lack of protection in some sense reduces freedom still stands.
- zajio1am 6y agoEven if it does not happen in significant numbers, such possibility and few widely-reported cases cause chilling effect.