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One engineer said "retarded" in a meeting. I just fired him
- markus_zhang 2y agohttps://imgur.com/l3HT9Ze https://imgur.com/l3HT9Ze
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- hdlothia 2y ago1) I don't believe that this happened, people lie/embellish stories on the internet all the time. 2) I believe people have the right to free association. I wouldn't fire someone for saying retarded, but people like forever_wario have the right to live their values. 3) Using politically controversial language in white collar working places that are traditionally woke or woke leaning is asking for trouble.
- juanani 2y ago[dead]
- legitster 2y agoI'm assuming this is a troll.
- jas- 2y agoIf we are just going to stigmatize one word, perhaps, as a group, you should also consider the following list and fire people for these as well? The only real consistent thing is as each generation becomes "woke" or "enlightened" (as previous generations called it), one or more phrases will be termed offensive by the younger generation and changed to something else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disability-related_terms_with_negative_connotations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disability-related_ter...
- tm-infringement 2y agoThis is bait, but someone with a pattern of behavior or on various people's shitlist being fired for this as the excuse doesn't seem impossible.