Blog post from a 202er:
Hey Katy,
As a resident of Philadelphia, I found this article to be particularly interesting. Not only does it relate to my beloved Eagles, but it relates to our class and the right to privacy vs. the workplace. I thought this would be a great blog article because it raises the ethical question of whether the employee should be fired for what he did outside of the workplace. Here is the article from ESPN.com:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3965039
And the blog from ESPN.com
http://myespn.go.com/blogs/nfceast/0-8-229/The-Eagles-release-another--part-time--employee.html
Let me know what you think.
I know what I think. What do you think?
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Facebook firing
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To be serious, I actually think no employer has any business monitoring its employees outside of the job.
The contract between me and an employer should be one where I agree to trade my time in exchange for a particular amount of the capital they have come to accumulate in whatever way they do.
To make the transaction my time AND a lifestyle according to my employer's discretion in exchange for a sustainable livelihood is fascism and should scare the hell out of all of you. Fascism doesn't necessarily manifest at a governmental level.
If employers feel entitled to the monitoring of facebook pages and the like, what's next?
If your employers want to know what's on your facebook page, I'm sure they'd be equally interested in the contents of your e-mails and text messages and--why the hell not!--your actual personal life within your own home!
Hooray!
I agree that monitoring personal messages is the invasion of privacy. But if this man had his profile set to "public," there is no reason why he shouldn't be fired.
Say I work for McDonald's, and in my free time I run around and tell people how terrible McDonald's is. Is that ok? It's technically my private life, but I'm hurting my employer by giving them a bad reputation.
If the profile was set to private, he should not have been fired. Cell phones, private e-mails and private conversations should not be grounds for firing.
But public announcements like the one made in this case are directly offensive the the employer. I don't see why he shouldn't be let go.
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