Recruiting forum off topic thread (no politics, covid, or hot button issues)

[Aesius]

Yes. If you wouldn’t say it out loud around other people, especially of a different race, then yes you’d be fired for it. Common sense, right?

How comfortable would you be if someone dug through everything you've ever posted on social media and scrutinized it for potential offensiveness to someone of a particular race, gender, sexuality, religion, disability status, etc., and if they found ANYTHING questionable, you would be canceled?

 

[joevols89]

No offense but if you’re 18 and looking to go into a career in reporting/journalism you should know better. If I was a public figure I would’ve made sure i scrubbed my social media years ago when this started becoming a thing.

She studied this stuff in school. If she was 12 she definitely gets a pass but I just confirmed she attended UT 2014-2017.

 

[beneVOLence]

I mean if you smoked dope when you were 17, you should expect to be charged now for you past crimes. Correct?

 

[Pridedad]

This is absolutely true. But everyone does stupid things as a teenager. We used to expect that and help them grow.

I agree. I know I'm glad the things I did as a teenager are not held against me now.

 

[Ashevolle]

What happened?

Apparently someone forced her to use the N word, thereby getting her fired

 

[Nuctech777]

probably another woman....

Or a guy jealous of her success. Could be either. Regardless it’s ridiculous, she was soooo good at her job.

 

[Ashevolle]

I mean if you smoked dope when you were 17, you should expect to be charged now for you past crimes. Correct?

Not if you're as old as I am. That statute of limitations has long since run

 

[SweetasSoda]

How comfortable would you be if someone dug through everything you've ever posted on social media and scrutinized it for potential offensiveness to someone of a particular race, gender, sexuality, religion, disability status, etc., and if they found ANYTHING questionable, you would be canceled?

But wait, they don’t think anything they do is offensive to someone else. Whatever offends them is superior so it’s okay to destroy someone over that. And everyone is so easily offended now.

 

[Orange_Crush]

That's insane. I remember people quoting Chappelle's Show skits/standup sets on social media in the late 00s using that word. "I'm selling weed *****!" I wonder if they would get fired if people found those posts?

So, pieces together...?

The fake site satired blackface-blackout comment. She lit them up with some righteous indignation and virtue signaling. Someone posted her history using the N word?

That about cover it?

 

[MarcoVol]

How comfortable would you be if someone dug through everything you've ever posted on social media and scrutinized it for potential offensiveness to someone of a particular race, gender, sexuality, religion, disability status, etc., and if they found ANYTHING questionable, you would be canceled?

Personally, and I know this isn’t the popular opinion, especially, I’d be pretty comfortable

 

[SweetasSoda]

I agree. I know I'm glad the things I did as a teenager are not held against me now.

I’ve always been a very careful person that tried to do the right thing. I’ve always been very careful with words. But I hate for someone to be hung in the town square because they did or said something stupid YEARS ago. Whatever happened to forgiveness?

 

[MarcoVol]

I’ve always been a very careful person that tried to do the right thing. I’ve always been very careful with words. But I hate for someone to be hung in the town square because they did or said something stupid YEARS ago. Whatever happened to forgiveness?

I still don’t even know what she tweeted.

But she was fired from her job, not cast away to an island where she can no longer participate in society.

 

[Orange_Crush]

I could be wrong...but usually if it's a random OLD social media post that's not -why- you got fired, that's just the thing they are using.

But I don't know Kasey at all and don't know the daily dealings of Vol Network...I just know in my past certain folks have gotten fired for what seemed like a "one time" thing but it was just the most recent/easy to point to thing that they had done wrong.

It could definitely be a "one time" thing if there's the company's perception that public response would cost them business/money. That's why cancel culture is cultural terrorism.

 

[volinokc]

Not if you're as old as I am. That statute of limitations has long since run

You can smoke all you want in Oklahoma now…just sayin.

 

[volinokc]

I’ve always been a very careful person that tried to do the right thing. I’ve always been very careful with words. But I hate for someone to be hung in the town square because they did or said something stupid YEARS ago. Whatever happened to forgiveness?

I agree with everything you are saying. However, we still don’t even really know what happened. My default is to always assume there is more to a story than what the reflexive, moralistic reaction is—regardless of the side that morality is coming from.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

I mean I hold myself accountable for my mistakes. But I also think it's a bit odd that someone wanted to make an example of her that badly and her losing her job over it (if it was just some old tweet as speculated) is a bit much. Cause we see higher profile celebrities get second chance after second chance for the same sort of thing.

As always the bigger and more profitable you are the more willing companies are to "let it slide" great example Morgan Wallen. Of course in his situation he's kind of not having to answer to anyone but consumers, and if people will still buy his product then he's not going to get cancelled.

 

[Ashevolle]

You can smoke all you want in Oklahoma now…just sayin.

I've lived in Washington State since 2013 so it hasn't been an issue for a long time. I can't even stand visiting a state where it's illegal anymore. I get off the plane like, "damn, they still make places like this?"

 

[Jimmy Football]

I still don’t even know what she tweeted.

But she was fired from her job, not cast away to an island where she can no longer participate in society.

Nah. Losing your job is a pretty big deal. That’s why people who want to harm you in situations like these go after your job.

 

[InVOLuntary]

So they actually fired Kasey Funderberg for a supposedly racist post from years ago when she had just took RGW to task for an insensitive post? What are we doing here?

I checked and her staff profile on the UT website has been purged.

 

[butchna]

I still don’t even know what she tweeted.

But she was fired from her job, not cast away to an island where she can no longer participate in society.

Same difference. Every job and social connection has been blighted.

 

[joevols89]

So they actually fired Kasey Funderberg for a supposedly racist post from years ago when she had just took RGW to task for an insensitive post? What are we doing here?

I checked and her staff profile on the UT website has been purged.

It wasn’t supposedly racist.

 

[volbeast33]

Yes. If you wouldn’t say it out loud around other people, especially of a different race, then yes you’d be fired for it. Common sense, right?

That’s fair if it’s current…. Looking back to when you are a teenager is ridiculous.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

So they actually fired Kasey Funderberg for a supposedly racist post from years ago when she had just took RGW to task for an insensitive post? What are we doing here?

I checked and her staff profile on the UT website has been purged.

So stupid.

 

[VolFanNC09]

Kasey Funderburg got fired due to a social media message from when she was 14 years old.

That's pretty sad and crazy. I am not much for extra regulation or getting lawyers involved, but for an employer to be able to fire someone based on social media posts from a decade ago just shouldn't be legal. I don't even know the context, but teens say stupid stuff all the time....then they grow up....

 

[MarcoVol]

Nah. Losing your job is a pretty big deal. That’s why people who want to harm you in situations like these go after your job.

I’m not saying it’s not a big deal. But she wasn’t hung in the town square (the reference in the post I quoted).