"How dare you behave like that outside of work!!"

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

I mean, what if you HAD been crossdressing? They gonna fire you because of that?

The gall!

Days like that I'm really glad my persona isn't Scottish. Just imagine if I were wearing a kilt?

M

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

When I wear pants, does that mean that I, as a woman, am a crossdresser?

I don't know, but I'd be careful about wearing pants around Mrs. Suzie the dim-witted lesbian.

M

[Mr B Rabbit]

The exact terms the school used were 'innappropriate correspondence with students'. No animated pictures in the e-mails at all, just a 'Merry Christmas to you too'.

It was a single-sex religious school, and I was the youngest member of staff. I'd also made a few complaints of sexual harassment so I suspect the school was looking for an excuse.

[Rubystars]

Same over here. I was encouraged to leave my first job at a school because (in response to some e-mails from the students, who had my e-mail address because the school listed me as the tech support contact) I sent an e-mail wishing some of the pupils Merry Christmas. They then tried to get me put on the sex offender's register. That was not a fun six months legal battle.

Please explain this one. I thought at first maybe people got offended because they weren't Christian and you wished their kids Merry Christmas. That's the only controversy I've ever heard of in regards to that.

Was there some kind of animated gif that the parents didn't like or something?

[symposes]

Wow, saying merry christmas makes you a sexual predator?!
just like urinating in public!!!
Hmm, what happens if you say happy kwanza, is that instant jail time?
/sarcasm off

On a side note, that list is so screwed up. and the amount of liberties taken against people on it, make me sick. (How would you like to end up on it by mistake, while living at one place for 20 years, then get told you had to move because of some rezoning that made your area one of the areas people on the list cannot live at, even when you shouldnt be on the list in the first place?)

And as far as the representing work, If I was paid salary, and made enough to give a damn, I might feel that Since i was being paid for every minute of the day, then maybe i should act right in public. Otherwise, as far as im concerned, im off the clock, or on vacation time, well, thats my time. who is "my employer"? I dont work there.

[Mr B Rabbit]

You think THAT is bad, try being a teacher or a cop. You screw up just once and someone complains and it's "career suicide" for you pal!

And if it happens in the United States, the union usually wont lift a finger to defend you either.

Same over here. I was encouraged to leave my first job at a school because (in response to some e-mails from the students, who had my e-mail address because the school listed me as the tech support contact) I sent an e-mail wishing some of the pupils Merry Christmas. They then tried to get me put on the sex offender's register. That was not a fun six months legal battle.

At the school I'm at now we just forward any communication from students straight to our supervisor. We also have a list of bars and other social places posted up where we're warned that we might not want to go because 'pupils go there'. I can sort of understand that one, as the last thing I want on a night out is to worry about word getting around the school that I was getting drunk on mead, but still. The pupils are under eighteen, why should I have to worry about them being in a pub?

[Jester]

I've quote him before, I'll quote him in the future, and I'm quoting him now. Ladies and gentlemen (oh yeah, and you too Rapscallion), the wisdom of George Carlin:

"Think of how stupid the average person is and then realize....half of them are stupider than that!"

[powerboy]

Why is it to most people, they think that employees should not have a personal life?

[RecoveringKinkoid]

"Now my boss comes up to me and asks what was going on."

I think I'd have been reeeeeal tempted to tell him "none of your business." I can't believe some of the bosses in some of these stories with their "you could have handled it better." They can bite you if they don't like how you carry on off the clock on your own time. I mean, what if you HAD been crossdressing? They gonna fire you because of that?

The gall!

[Shironu-Akaineko]

I can, to a degree, understand an employer being upset about how an employee acts outside of work IF THAT EMPLOYEE IS STILL WEARING THEIR WORK UNIFORM. Because then you really are representing your company (assuming your uniform has the company logo/name on it.

Ehehehehe.... I kinda ran around the whole mall as a Zombie dressed in the previous Store uniform...That's like 3 store logos on my head, chest and apron... and IN character...

People seemed to love it, tho.

[myswtghst]

Wow, now I feel rather lucky. The agents in my call center are a rather rowdy bunch, and actually well known at several area bars for our "antics" but no one at work seems to mind. I've actually seen one of our higher ups puke on the dance floor of the bar we had our holiday party at. That was...well, shall we say, something to remember.

[Decker]

I'm about to start waxing poetic on this jerkwad when my boss comes in and explains that 1. It's not his problem what I do off the clock as long as it's legal 2. I'm in a historical re-creation society, 3. I own a whopping big sword, and 4. to shut the hell up and leave us alone.

Person left and never came back...no big loss.

Yes! Love it! I need a whopping big sword.

[Melxb]

You think THAT is bad, try being a teacher or a cop. You screw up just once and someone complains and it's "career suicide" for you pal!

And if it happens in the United States, the union usually wont lift a finger to defend you either.

So true! I was a teacher waaaaaaay back in the day. I taught middle school and then I quit after a year (I have great respect for teachers, a TON of respect for teachers, but I just didn't have it in me).

A years after I quit I was AT THE BEACH wearing a biking of all things! Oh the horror! I was tanning and laughing with my friends and enjoying myself. A parent of a kid I had came up to me (did I mention that I was at the beach in a bikini???) and started talking to me. It started off as a nice conversation, with me asking about her son (a nice kid) and how he was doing in high school. After a couple of minutes she kind of looked me up and down and said, "Um, you sure you should be dressed like THAT??" And she motioned to my bikini. I kinda looked at her and said, "I'm no longer a teacher. I'm a graduate student." And she, looked, I don't know, deflated, like I had taken the wind of out of her sails. She was exactly the kind of parent who would have gone to the administration and told them that I was being obscene at the beach. It was uncomfortable and she left after that. Weird.

[katie kaboom]

she wasn't in trouble or anything but was told "there was a better way she could have handled it..."

bullshit...she's not on the clock, not at any kind of work related function, how she handled it is her business and no one else's. God, what is WRONG with these people?

[Becks]

My boss got a complaint once about my behavior outside the the workplace.

Get this...I was [buh buh buh bummmmm] CROSSDRESSING

When I wear pants, does that mean that I, as a woman, am a crossdresser?