Guy gets fired from Microsoft for feeling joy over Charlie Kirk's death

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I'm getting some mixed signals here...

As shitty as I think that it is that a bunch of people are getting axed over their social media posts, I also keep thinking how dumb people are for posting these thoughts publicly and not anonymously.

Companies reprimanding employees for their social media content isn't something that's new. The 1st amendment allows people to say pretty much what they want, but it doesn't protect against consequences from those words. I know that there are varying degrees for what people are saying that they are getting fired for, from true celebration about Kirk's death to what Kimmel said the other night which wasn't actually about the shooting but the response. A company has the right to protect their image if it's employees are doing something that can hurt it. I don't agree with the firings, but I can understand some of them.

All this to say, don't publicly post something controversial, especially politically, if those statements can be linked back to you. The world and specifically the US are not in a good place right now, and if you're an "enemy" anything that can be, will be used against you. Be smart, delete Facebook, insta, and all the other social platforms that can be used to target you