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“As my employer you have no right to dictate what I do on my own time, nor should you even be aware or have opinions.” Disagree it’s the employees job to find
by newsclues 3y ago
“As my employer you have no right to dictate what I do on my own time, nor should you even be aware or have opinions.”
Disagree it’s the employees job to find a job and employer that offers the right terms for you personally.
Lots of jobs have contracts that do limit what you can say or do outside hours of work.
The White House press secretary doesn’t get to go home after work and talk smack about the president on Twitch.
Members of the military can’t go and work out with enemies of the state on vacation.
As long as the agreement is clearly communicated and voluntary at the start of employment there are reasonable limits to employees even after work hours.
I love freedom but I understand discipline and limitations make everyone more free than chaos.
- meepmorp 3y agoThe White House press secretary is a political appointee who works as a press secretary for the most prominent political figure in the country, so slagging off the president after hours necessarily and directly impacts the job. The military has its own body of law, as well as separate judicial and prison systems, and federal courts have repeatedly given the armed forces wide latitude in how they treat their "employees." Also, those people are all working on national defense. Those are weird examples to pick, considering how entirely different they are to the circumstances of an SWE at 37 Signals possibly doing other work after hours. And also weird is suggesting that such control is a form of discipline that help keep chaos at bay, and is in fact part of making everyone more free.