If I am on FB and I have settings such that only my friends can see what I post, and I intentionally exclude non-friends and my utterances STILL get me fired, I have a mixed problem with that.
Mixed because 1) FB isn't exactly private. If your profile is YOUR ACTUAL profile and you say x, then don't be surprised if x gets a rise out of people. 2) Unless your employer has an explicit social media policy that covers your private FB or LinkedIn or other places where your name is public, firing you because of an utterance on FB seems un-kosher.
If this woman was a Deplorable who worked for the Trump campaign, and was fired because she said on FB she hopes all Antifa and #NotMyPresident types were denied a stimulus check and hospitalization if they lacked healthcare coverage, I bet many people here cheering for her firing would change their tune.
More than likely her contract did have a clause as you posited under 2). Conduct unbecoming is in many executive contracts and it applies to “off work” time as well.
I’m of the belief that if a person has a severe case of TDS and they elect to spend any monies set for them by Pres Trump working with Crongress it presents them as a hypocrite. It’s my personal belief.
Do I believe they should be legally deprived of the monies or denied medical attention, no way. Because of my own belief system in the Constitution and in the Lord God.
Yes, there are folks that would be upset if the tables were turned on a Pres Trump supporter. That is with them and their beliefs.
In her position she could cause someone to be overlooked by accident, perhaps? Don’t know. Would I want someone on my staff with such a hatred towards people to have any control over those people medically? No way, no how.
What’s inside our core beliefs will eventually seep out of our souls and into our daily actions.
Sometimes it takes decades to see evil come to fruition and other times years, months, weeks or even just hours.
Her anger built and built and over the years was allowed to fester without anyone challenging her with any sense of logic or true compassion.
Private thoughts are like history books: Eventually someone’s going to see it, read it, or hear about it and disagree. A person’s got to be prepared to stand for those beliefs when it happens.
I have a very strong belief system. Intensely strong. Yet when I walked in the door at whatever job I held it was with the knowledge I either yielded to the job or quit.
It was often I told my beloved that I wouldn’t voice opinions on the job and that I was grateful to be able to make it to retirement without having to resign because of personal beliefs. He was prepared for that instance, just in case it had to happen....
It’s not about wanting to brainwash someone.
It’s about someone who’s personal beliefs put others down to the level of animals.
For that, she needs to be working with animals, not people.
And may the animals be protected as well, from her.