Amy Palcic fired for 'cultural' reasons (1 Viewer)

Da Guru said:

Should have added, and before they let them go.   Google people fired for social media posts..  It is never ending.  As I stated before this was probably a the last straw as most likely there were underlying issues. 

But hey at least some people know who she is now.  I had never heard of her.

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Bracie Smathers said:

You made up a scenario where they have justification so you are making things up.

We don't have to make things up, we know people in the NFL knew of her, just a few hours ago Peter King did an entire segment on her in the MMQB and many others have come forward praising her work.  Not just word of mouth, of the 32 people in her position in the league she was recognized as the best and was awarded by the league.

Who fired her?

A person who shared tweets supporting a losing candidate.

Fired three days after an election for sharing a post on her personal account.  One no one in the league would have reason to check personal social accounts or if they had they would discover posts that are far from controversial.  

The issue is the abuse of power, the creep factor.  

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IvanKaramazov said:

Why is it okay to refuse to hire somebody for their social media posts but not okay to fire them for their social media posts?  Either their social media posts are relevant to their job performance or they aren't.

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Bracie Smathers said:

I think its pretty easy to see the difference.

One has been hired and performed well enough to gain a great reputation within their field and won a prize for being the best at their job who gets fired days after posting something in their personal social media about an election by a person whose personal social media page is rife with the losing side tags.

VS

Not hiring someone for any reason.

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IvanKaramazov said:

That's not a difference.  If social media postings don't stop someone from performing well on the job, then there's no justification for using them in the hiring process.

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Bracie Smathers said:

Verified good to excellent performance over nothing add employer gainfully employing someone till they act out from a non-job related emotional outburst due to an election is a BIG difference.

If you can see and are just trolling or if you can't see I'm not all that interested.

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IvanKaramazov said:

I think you're just making up an arbitrary distinction to support not hiring someone for "cultural" reasons while still opposing firing someone for "cultural" reasons.  I don't think the Texans should deny someone employment just because they happen to be Biden supporters and said so on social media.  I'm sorry that you disagree, and also kind of surprised since you're the one who started this thread.

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Da Guru said:

We have no idea what was going on behind the scenes.  Maybe she was poisoning other employees, bad mouthing her bosses views.  Nobody really knows.   I looked it up and yes you can be let go for cultural reasons.

Some employees miss deadlines, avoid hard work, are perpetually late, and just don’t keep up with their responsibilities, and these are all universally understood performance-related behaviors that can lead to an employee’s termination.

But what about cultural fit issues? Can culture problems be a basis for firing an employee? The short answer is yes.

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Zow said:

Somebody like @bigbottom would know this far better than me, but is Texas an at-will state? If so, and if it operates like AZ does in that regard, a person can be let go for almost anything that doesn't have to do with them being in a protected class. 

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Zow said:

Somebody like @bigbottom would know this far better than me, but is Texas an at-will state? If so, and if it operates like AZ does in that regard, a person can be let go for almost anything that doesn't have to do with them being in a protected class. 

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