• liyunxiao@sh.itjust.works
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      16 hours ago

      This is their professional speech, not their personal speech. Your employer has the absolute right to fire you if you use swear words in communique with your work email. That’s not a violation, just like this isn’t.

      The federal government simply considers this unprofessional, and since they’re applying the rule equally there’s also no basis for a discrimination or wrongful termination suit.

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      What free speech rights does a government employee have in their official correspondence?

      This is a civil rights violation, not a free speech violation.

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    Tackling the big issues. This will certainly decrease the price of eggs (that have gone from $3.18/dozen to $7.79/dozen in the last 3 weeks), and ground beef (up from $3.63/lbs to $4.83/pound this month).

  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    so stupid. that always helps a lot. at my company we’ve discussed 15 minutes with 10 people, how to address the person from another company, who’s gender we don’t know and who’s name can be male and female, without hurting their feelings. i ended up writing an email asking about their pronouns. this wastes so much time and in the case of the white house, even taxpayer money. people can become super insecure if they don’t know. we also have a guy at the office who frequently gets misgendered because of his unusual first name. he always get’s super angry about it, but he also understands this can happen. why would one make this more complicated.