Autobot032 wrote:MINDVVIPE wrote:Come on guys... we all know free-speech is a farce, right?....
Piss off the wrong person, and watch that freedom fade quicker than waspinators dignity
Free speech is not the issue here. She's free to say what she wants, and did. There's nothing that entitles her to remain employed after being insensitive to her bosses and everyone involved.
Bosses can read your Facebook profile and fire you due to defamatory, insensitive, or otherwise offensive comments and remarks. Some of which reflect badly on the company. That's a punishable offense.
Look at this situation in the same light, for a moment.
She made fun of the people who write her checks. She made fun of the movies that made her famous. She called her director the name of a mass murderer.
To the outside world looking in, it looks like:
1.) It's okay to talk about Hitler in front of the people who were affected greatly by the man's actions.
2.) It's okay to mock the movie and crew working on it, because she did it. (good for the goose and gander, all that jazz.)
3.) It's okay to make crude and offensive comments towards the audience that helped make her famous, and made them money.
4.) It says Spielberg, Hasbro, Paramount and Dreamworks are fine with this. I mean, obviously it must be, because they decided to keep her, right?
That's not how it works. They bent over backwards to keep her, and all she could do was attack them on all fronts. She finally crossed one too many lines and suffered for it.
She's welcome to say what she wants, but she has no right to expect to keep her job. If you and I did the same thing, the same result would happen. For once, a star didn't receive special treatment.
Actually, someone at my partners place of work was fired due to slagging her boss off on facebook, one of the other employees reported it, however she took the company to a tribunal and got reinstated due to a breach of her human rights.
I agree now ive looked into it that she went too far when you combine everything, and maybe the Hitler comment was too far (actually as ive already said it was amazingly bad taste, but something that is commonplace for the working class here), but you cant be sacked for saying something the boss doesnt like (unless racist or blatantly illegal), warned yes, sacked no.
However, as stated it does seem that she was given more than her fair share of warnings, so in light of that, yes, deserved to go. (If in fact she was sacked, and didnt walk off like she stated).
