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In reply to the discussion: Erika Casher: Cigna 'Quietly Fires' Employee Mocking Teen Over Grandmother's Death Due to Covid-19 [View all]Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)A worker at my company was caught off-duty in a restaurant making racist comments. I happily signed his walking papers. There's not many companies that will tolerate this level of bad behavior regardless of whether it affects their own employment or not. If a company knows about employees doing such egregious things, they have an obligation to discipline them for it up to and including termination. It's just bad business to do anything else especially in the age where people can and do find out where you work. Everyone has a right to free speech. You don't have a right not to face consequences for saying and doing the wrong things.
And FWIW, the people who do these sort of things don't just put on their asshole hat when they aren't on the job. In many cases they already have one foot out the door because of their asshole behavior on the job. So in the case of where it could go either way as to whether they get fired or face an unpaid suspension, their other previous conduct often seals their fate.