A 'handful' of Cisco employees were fired after posting offensive comments objecting to the company's support of the Black Lives Matter movement

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[–]bad_username 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I see Businessinsider capitalizes Black but not white. Do they capitalize all races, or just one?

[–]dac 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

All races except one.

[–]Aureus 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Keep an eye out. Media sources are doing this everywhere. It's nuts.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is some sick shit.

[–]Edge_Finder 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

they can all sue for unlawful termination

[–]Oof_Too_Humid 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

California is an at-will employment state, meaning that employers can fire an employee with or without cause. So, unless any of these employees had a personal employment contract with Cisco stating that they could only be fired for good cause, then I don't see legal grounds for a lawsuit. Sucks.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

its the same at my buddy's work, all employees are all on facebook and are watching what others say,

if someone says something they dont like, they report it to the supervisors, and the supervisors threatens them not to say things or they will get fired

[–]yayblueberries 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So is part of being employed there being forced to add your coworkers as friends? At every place I've gotten hired I have made it clear to my coworkers that they can try to add me, but I will not add them back. The workplace stays at work for me. I hate what the average workplace is becoming very rapidly.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

no one is forcing anyone, when facebook was popular years ago everyone just started adding every single person they met without thinking of the consequences

i feel the same as you, i don't even have facebook, and if i did, id never add anyone i work with, work and personal life should always not mix

but most people on facebook are kinda dumb

[–]JulienMayfair 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I use Facebook to post pictures of my pets and the wildlife I see in my yard. I steer clear of controversial topics.

[–]yayblueberries 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Same, I use mine to talk almost entirely about birds (and sometimes food), so my friends list is pretty much fellow bird nerds.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

it's important to talk about controversial topics on the internet, just make a anonymous account and never use your normal email, along with a vpn

as Hitler said in his book, not his exact words but something along the line dont talk politics at work because co-workers are a bunch of dumb fucks who dont know anything about the world and got brains of a pea

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I never did Facebook. Told everyone when it came out that stuff they posted on it would come back to haunt them decades later. I have no regrets about this decision.

80's and 90's: Don't put your real identity out on the internet / usenet / gopher, etc - you never know what some crazy person is gonna do with that info.

2000's: Post the color of your most recent poop and your most controversial political opinions out there for everyone under your own name. What could possibly go wrong?

Today: Predictable consequences of the retardation of the earlier decades. (eg. addition of normies to the internet)

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

East Germany and Stasi snitches.

That's what they are. Call them out.

[–]whistlepig 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A good time to re-watch "The Circle"

[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Funny how all companies are like these monarchy-dictatorships.

We thought we escaped from the era of Kings and Queens in the 1700s. But it just reincarnated itself in corporate form.

You say the wrong thing, and the king cuts you off from your livelihood. You are solely to be a cog in the machine, not to have an opinion of your own.

It is disgusting corporate culture that suppresses the human spirit. Just to earn a paycheck to buy stuff that mostly isn't necessary anyway, trapped on some consumerist treadmill, keeping up with Joneses. That's what keeps all this together despite how poorly it functions. Consumer greed is the glue that holds this abusive hierarchy together.

[–]DimDroog 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

There will always be some fucktard trying to control other people, via politics, money, religion et al.

I totally agree with you regarding corporate culture and consumer greed.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There will always be some fucktard trying to control other people, via politics, money, religion et al.

Yes the only question is how many people will "play the game" because they want scraps of that power too?

This is why greed is what keeps the hierarchy intact. Everyone is trying their hardest to be upwardly mobile on the hierarchy, so they "play the game" and it leads to all this massive corruption and controlling others.

If no one "played the game" then the game would stop. Immediately.

[–]DimDroog 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes the only question is how many people will "play the game" because they want scraps of that power too?

A lot! I just left a Buddhist cult full of leaders who fawn all over the higher ups for power.

(that cult has nothing to do with Buddhism, it just says it does. Chanting for wealth is NOT Buddhism!)

[–]asterias 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Who would buy Cisco products anyway? Weren't they exposed as backdoored years ago?

[–]Questionable 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yes. But now they can blame systemic racism for their sinking profits, and paint a optimistic picture for the future once they defeat it. They will say anything, as long as it looks good in a report to their investors.

[–]bobbobbybob 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

remind me to never buy cisco gear again

[–]cant_even 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I thought political opinions were going to be some new kind of 'protected class'. In fact, Commiefornia (home of Cisco) is on top of the list in that article.

[–]fartwaffen 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Offensive meaning a differing benign opinion.