Trippah wrote on 08/27/17 at 08:06:33:we are very lucky we can speak our minds freely, but yes, there are consequences. When you speak as part of a business, or a government, then you should know that deviation from the approved has risks.
You are absolutely right in my belief too.
To be employed, is contractual in nature.
Use to be a time when a mans word was his bond.
Sadly, those days are gone....
Forever, I dunno.
Look at our leadership and governing bodies, they will change their beliefs in a heartbeat, if it is politically expedient.
Work is a basic ingredient to feeling self worth, a much needed element to a healthy life/attitude.
If it is not honored, as such, a bond to perform, and compensated, accordingly, then its been broken, or in other words, no longer valid and enforceable, the contract.
At work I sign a yearly propriety pledge, a promise to not speak of guarded information that is paramount to the companies success.
Does that breach my constitutional rights of free speech?
Of course not.
By agreeing to a new admission of "my rights" to attain employment, I, in a sense, have forfeited that right, under the new agreed guidelines.
What is so hard to understand about that?
This is not telling me I can't yell FIRE, if I see the company doing things that might put folks at risk.
That can never be taken away, ever.