1 Attachment(s)
A worker who calls someone else the "N-word" on the job often gets fired
Quote:
But what about a worker who calls himself the N-word?
That was the question Syracuse officials had to decide in the case of Todd Gordon, a black Department of Public Works employee. The city chose to fire him.
Gordon was working as a street repairman in the city's Department of Public Works in October when another worker objected to their job assignments.
The other worker, Ed Firnstein, went into a supervisor's office to complain that he should have been assigned a roller truck instead of a dump truck, Gordon said. Firnstein, who's white, wanted to switch assignments with Gordon, who had less time on the job.
Attachment 2743
Gordon went in the office and objected. Firnstein called him a "f------ punk," according to Gordon.
"You know what, man? I'm tired of this. You don't like working with (N-words) like me," Gordon responded.
Four months later, the city fired him for using the racial slur.
http://www.syracuse.com/state/index....he_n-word.html