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How’s it any different from writing a letter to 25 coworkers saying F** my employer? If one of the 25 recipients showed the letter to my employer I’d be fired.
by wil421 6y ago
How’s it any different from writing a letter to 25 coworkers saying F** my employer? If one of the 25 recipients showed the letter to my employer I’d be fired.
How’s a private snap any different than a private letter?
- thissorthatt 6y agoThe employer is not bound by the 1st Amendment. Whereas the school (functioning as a part of the government) is.
- nitrogen 6y agoCommunicating with coworkers about workplace conditions could be a protected labor activity.
- teawrecks 6y agoWhat would/should actually happen in this case is HR/the manager would meet with the employee and ask them to vent any apparent frustrations. If the statement was made publicly, they would probably be fired outright for making public statements about the employer without permission. If it's only internal, they wouldn't be fired outright, but they will likely be passed over for promotion. Makes sense, why should a company invest in someone who apparently isn't invested in the company? If they are ever fired, the reason given would be for some other unrelated infraction that they are legally allowed to terminate for.
- shadowgovt 6y agoProtected labor activities are protected in the US by Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act, not by the Constitution.
- anaerobicover 6y agoI believe that I have not made my point clearly: simply, you should not be fired for that letter.
- virgil_disgr4ce 6y agoThe snap self-destructs. The correct analogy would be showing a photo of the letter to others.
- wnoise 6y agoThe by-default ephemeral nature?
- teawrecks 6y agoThe difference is, one is a private company that you are gainfully employed at of your own volition. The other is a public school that students are legally obligated to attend. The two have nothing to do with each other.
- lostlogin 6y ago> How’s a private snap any different than a private letter? I thought that letters had a copyright? The recipient has ownership but cannot publish. If they do copy and distribute (as a screenshot of a Snapchat message) does this not break copyright? Edit: In New Zealand (where I am), an employer screenshooting and distributed an employee’s Facebook messages breached privacy laws. https://privacy.org.nz/tools/knowledge-base/view/366 https://privacy.org.nz/tools/knowledge-base/view/366
- mannerheim 6y agoCopyright generally doesn't protect usage of a work in criticism of it, even if it is basically verbatim usage without added commentary. I think Hughes v. Benjamin is salient here.