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I 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, ho
by jgwil2 6y ago
I 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.