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NRLB Redefines 'Your Own Time'
Doc Ruby writes "The U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled to ban off-duty worker 'fraternization,' at the employer's discretion. So getting together for a beer after work can now be prohibited by the boss. With IT workers so commonly producing some of our best work 'after hours,' even at home or in restaurants/bars, will this ruling come back to bite employers in the IT industry? Can they really stop you from talking with your cubicle neighbor on the bus home, if they can't even stop you from reading Slashdot while on the clock?"
My wife and I are employed at the same company... Does that mean I don't have to talk to her anymore afterwork? Thank you NLRB!!! I'm soooo shot-gunning two beers tonight and watching ESPN.
"Simplify, simplify, simplify!" Thoreau
So wait, they are going to ban my drinking! What next, no more vodka shots during breaks? Then what, they are going to replace the coke and rum dispenser with WATER!? THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME!
Oh wait, what was TFA about again?
Ahh, I'm going to have to go ahead and ask you to come in on Sunday, too...
Why do you call the U.S.A the "land of the free"?
:o)
They mean free as in beer, not free as in freedom.
You read slashdot and are concerned about having sex with a co-worker? I'm confused on so many levels.
Otherwise, I reserve the right to date, have sex with... any of my co-workers when we are off the clock.
Maybe your coworkers ought to have some input in that, too...
This falls under 'human rights'. Which you cannot sign away.
Sorry, someone's working on that too.
Why dampen sensationalism with the facts? :)
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
3) Where is the ACLU to challenge this?
They are busy suing a 7 year old kid for saying, "One nation under God," when the kid next to him didn't want to hear it and having a 70 year old store owner in Alabama arrested for having a printoff of the 10 commandments hanging up behind the register. They need to take care of that important stuff first before looking at little things like this.
Knightfall
Dammit their goes my dream of working at a strip club so i can have sex with the dancers after hours. Have to tell them to keep their clothes on so we don't get fired.
Have you ever been to a turkish prison?
No, 2005-1984 = 10. You do see that, don't you, citizen? How many fingers am I holding up?
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
Listen fella, if you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday.
-- I speak only for myself
How many fingers am I holding up?
Not only can I tell you how many, I can tell you wich one.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
As an aside, the worker was spending his days urinating in the A-B stills.
But A-B couldn't definitively prove that it was him making their beer taste like piss, so they had to fire him for drinking a competitor's product.
Rumor has it that someone is still pissin' around in the plant.....
Karnal
Now it's about you!? It's always about you. I'm sick of it! I'm leaving for go live with my mother and I'm taking the kids with me!!!
...er, no wait, I meant 'one' not 'you'