Sounds like a dumb question, right?
Wrong! In a September 23 Wall Street Journal editorial, the subhead reads as follows:
“The NLRB says you can tell your boss to @$%#!”
Yes, that is literally what appeared in the Journal.
The editorial goes on to explain the National Labor Relations Board is increasingly siding with employees who insult their employers.
In one example, two employees at Hooters cursed a co-worker in front of restaurant guests. They were fired, as you might expect. But the NLRB later decided a legal action in the employees’ favor.
And here’s another one: an employee of an auto dealership cursed out the owner in a meeting to discuss compensation, called him stupid, told him (the owner) that no-one liked him. The NLRB ruled this to be illegal.
What is the workplace coming to? This borders on a certain type of insanity involving undue and inappropriate favoritism to employees.
Finally, it’s worth nothing that a majority of the Board’s members (3 out of 5) have been appointed by the current Washington administration, including one member who was at one time general counsel for a major union.
Ah, that explains it!
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