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Poor Midcan. If one reads the entire link, one notices that the examples of those fired all represented themselves as employees of those organizations from which they were fired.There is a curious irony to this debate, if I am free to be an a_hole, why does my employer have to tolerate me? Having worked in corporate America a long time, be aware that your freedom may extend to the door being shown you and not in a good way.
"The answer is a pretty clear "yes" in the majority of circumstances. Because most states have "at will" employment laws, getting fired for online behavior of almost any sort is probably legal, with a few possible exceptions. To be more blunt about it, an employee probably doesn't even have to write negatively about their employer (or consort with criminals) in order to be fired. The noteworthy exceptions primarily involve an employee's: 1) union activicties; 2) pre-existing employment contracts or workplace policies; and 3) whistleblowing or protected activities."
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