Sex and Nudity Aren't Good Reasons to Fire Someone -
Is it really asking too much to suggest that employers stop worrying about how we perform in adult spaces and concentrate on how we perform our jobs instead?
Apparently it is, for the nonce.
An Ohio teacher was fired last month after his private nude photos were posted online without his knowledge and then discovered by administrators. In February, Michelle Manhart was demoted from the Air Force to the National Guard for posing in Playboy without first obtaining the Air Force's permission.
A New York Post article about how online activities affect a job hunt cites an example of a manager who was fired after his bosses found his pictures on an erotic dating site. Not because he was using company time to update his profile, but because "he showed extremely poor judgment by making such a personal matter public."
It makes you wonder what the bosses were doing at the dating site.
I am so sick of the priggishness. Tired of people making assumptions about a person based on their perceptions of the other's sexuality -- especially when they base those assumptions on the single dimension of online expression. Flabbergasted at the assumption that if you participate in adult activity online, you must lack judgment, integrity or reliability.
Getting naked on the internet is an international pastime, not the whim of a handful of sex addicts. Flashing your booty or treating yourself to an orgasm is hardly a sign that you are incapable of doing your job well, nor does it grant permission for others to dismiss your professional competence or authority.
And millions of sane, healthy, normal folks cannot resist the special lure of the internet, where you can be voyeur and exhibitionist at the same time.
Adult dating site Adult FriendFinder (NSFW) has almost 24 million members. I'm pretty sure at least one of them is a teacher, one who has no problem maintaining discipline in the classroom despite having sexual adventures outside of it.
NewbieNudes.com (NSFW), an adult-social-networking community, has more than 1.1 million members who blog about sex, post explicit self-portraits and talk dirty in chat rooms.
And how many of Second Life's 5.5 million or so residents are there for the food?
If sexual expression disqualified us from our jobs, there wouldn't be anyone left to do the work.
Is it really asking too much to suggest that employers stop worrying about how we perform in adult spaces and concentrate on how we perform our jobs instead?
Apparently it is, for the nonce.
An Ohio teacher was fired last month after his private nude photos were posted online without his knowledge and then discovered by administrators. In February, Michelle Manhart was demoted from the Air Force to the National Guard for posing in Playboy without first obtaining the Air Force's permission.
A New York Post article about how online activities affect a job hunt cites an example of a manager who was fired after his bosses found his pictures on an erotic dating site. Not because he was using company time to update his profile, but because "he showed extremely poor judgment by making such a personal matter public."
It makes you wonder what the bosses were doing at the dating site.
I am so sick of the priggishness. Tired of people making assumptions about a person based on their perceptions of the other's sexuality -- especially when they base those assumptions on the single dimension of online expression. Flabbergasted at the assumption that if you participate in adult activity online, you must lack judgment, integrity or reliability.
Getting naked on the internet is an international pastime, not the whim of a handful of sex addicts. Flashing your booty or treating yourself to an orgasm is hardly a sign that you are incapable of doing your job well, nor does it grant permission for others to dismiss your professional competence or authority.
And millions of sane, healthy, normal folks cannot resist the special lure of the internet, where you can be voyeur and exhibitionist at the same time.
Adult dating site Adult FriendFinder (NSFW) has almost 24 million members. I'm pretty sure at least one of them is a teacher, one who has no problem maintaining discipline in the classroom despite having sexual adventures outside of it.
NewbieNudes.com (NSFW), an adult-social-networking community, has more than 1.1 million members who blog about sex, post explicit self-portraits and talk dirty in chat rooms.
And how many of Second Life's 5.5 million or so residents are there for the food?
If sexual expression disqualified us from our jobs, there wouldn't be anyone left to do the work.
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