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Re:Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague by PiggySpeed on Friday June 12, 2020 @07:55PM (#23505205)
I this this is a good approach that I've used before.

I think it starts to crumble when people start to demand you to do stuff like posting on your social media or showing them donation receipts.

Re:Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague by nickff on Friday June 12, 2020 @07:59PM (#23505235)
I think the unfortunate reality is that some people are intolerant of others who are insufficiently supportive of certain causes, and the only way to deal with those people is not to deal with them. The subject of this thread seems to be one of those people.
Re:Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague by makomk on Friday June 12, 2020 @08:17PM (#23505354)
I think the unfortunate reality is that this isn't about individual people expecting support for certain causes. What you're looking at is fundamentally a social phenomenon - a belief that's been spreading from person to person and community to community that every person in the social group must support the correct causes in the correct ways, that anyone who doesn't go along with this is actively going against the cause and must be shamed and shunned until they do. It's the social spread via peer pressure that gives this its power. This isn't a new thing, it's been spreading amongst the tech community and elsewhere for probably well over a decade at this point.
Re:Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague by nickff on Friday June 12, 2020 @08:45PM (#23505568)
I agree that this type of toxic peer-pressure is spreading, and I have no idea what to do about it. It reminds me of what Louis Fischer and Arthur Koestler described in their respective essays in "The God That Failed".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_that_Failed

Re:Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague by foobarian on Friday June 12, 2020 @09:39PM (#23505897)
I would go even further and say s/tech/human/ and s/well over a decade/millenia/ :-)
Re:Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague by thisiszilff on Friday June 12, 2020 @09:17PM (#23505766)
Not necessarily insufficiently supportive, but insufficiently supportive in public mediums.
Re:Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague by dvtrn on Friday June 12, 2020 @07:57PM (#23505224)
It’ll crumble if you allow them to continue pushing the matter and imposing upon you, enforce your personal boundaries and if they continue intruding, probably HR time or at least sidebar with your manager. Good luck in your new job otherwise!
Re:Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague by acruns on Friday June 12, 2020 @08:22PM (#23505389)
I have found that having a serial killer resting face precludes me from these type of workplace bullies (only kinda joking).
Re:Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague by pnako on Friday June 12, 2020 @08:13PM (#23505329)
Why not just ignore them?