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Judge Rules Boss's "Firing Contest" Created a Hostile Work Environment
Branded the "boss from hell" by his employees, 57-year-old William Ernst lost a court battle with ex-workers over unemployment benefits. An Iowa judge has decided that Ernst's "firing contest" memo wasn't the best management strategy, saying, "The employer’s actions have clearly created a hostile work environment by suggesting its employees turn on each other for a minimal monetary prize. This was an intolerable and detrimental work environment.” The memo reads in part: "New Contest – Guess The Next Cashier Who Will Be Fired!!! To win our game, write on a piece of paper the name of the next cashier you believe will be fired. Write their name [the person who will be fired], today's date, today's time, and your name. Seal it in an envelope and give it to the manager to put in my envelope."
As I see it, the US could afford the current high level of regulation as a result of the fruits of the Guilded Age. Conversely, we'll be lucky to slide back into the Guilded Age as a result of our overly regulated age. Exaggerating the ills of the Guilded Age doesn't make modern US workers any more valuable or desired.
"Fair" - isn't that something children and incompetents believe exists? The government exists to protect our basic rights, not enforce "fairness". It's hardly fair that good looking guys get all the best looking women - I will make this a major campaign point when I run for President.
I am against all so called 'labor rights' and 'civil rights' all of those. Those are not rights.
There are only individual rights. The 'civil or labor rights' are actually entitlements given by government decree to some, while imposing obligations on others.
Just because you are an employer doesn't mean you now have to lose your individual rights and have all these obligations and have to hire people in exact accordance with how the government prescribes it.
You don't like this asshole? Don't work for him. NOBODY is forcing you to work for him.
Maybe ALL his workers should QUIT right away because he is an asshole. But he has his individual rights and they have their individual rights, and there are no such things as civil or labor rights, and I had a very very very lengthy discussion about it on this very site just a couple of days ago on this very issue.
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There are only individual rights, but there are also entitlements and obligations, but those are not the same as rights, but they do raise the cost of doing business, they raise the cost of hiring people especially due to all of the possible litigation.
Yes, this guy is an asshole.
No, you shouldn't have any special privileges and entitlements to deal with assholes in private, you do have your individual rights.
'Right' is a concept that is only meaningful to describe a relationship between an individual an government, because gov't is a system, not an individual.
Relationships between private individuals and businesses are covered by criminal and contract law, and unless this employer violated the contract, there are no criminal charges and there must not be any other special protections by government, which only cause more economic destruction.
You can't handle the truth.