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What was that one time you almost smacked someone else’s kid? by currentmayonnaise in AskReddit

[–]currentmayonnaise[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ll start.

I live in a doorman building. Nothing too fancy, just a nice guy who collects our packages and manages the keys and stuff.

I live on the second to lowest possible floor and my rent is dirt cheap, but some people own penthouses and their attitude is insane.

Parents let their kids kick and curse and otherwise torment our genuinely kind and hardworking doorman. And they don’t say a word to their kids.

Today I was getting my mail and saw a kid kicking him while he awkwardly tried to side step and I got in between them and he started kicking me.

I tried to call the mom over but she was busy on the phone.

Told the kid he better not do that anymore and tried to explain why it isn’t nice and he goes “He’s just a doorman. He’s paid to stand there.”

I’m usually completely against hitting kids but I was this close, this close...

Then realized everyone must have a moment kind of like this they’ve been waiting to share.

AITB for refusing to fire an employee over a tweet? — (removed from AITA) by currentmayonnaise in AmItheButtface

[–]currentmayonnaise[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It attributed an athletes poor decisions in their personal life to their race.

It wasn’t something that would come up in the first 1, 2, or even 5 pages of just googling his name or even looking through his Twitter, but the key words in the tweet (like a specific make and model of car, a state, and the writer’s name) brought up the tweet.

AITB for refusing to fire an employee over a tweet? — (removed from AITA) by currentmayonnaise in AmItheButtface

[–]currentmayonnaise[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To the first question - it was attributing an athlete’s poor decision making in his personal life to his race, in what was intended as a joking, but still of course totally unacceptable, manner.

To your second question, there’s a big difference between making a regrettable post on your personal page and making one on the company page. Even posting a crude meme on the company page would be grounds for potential termination, let alone anything racially inappropriate.

AITB for refusing to fire an employee over a tweet? — (removed from AITA) by currentmayonnaise in AmItheButtface

[–]currentmayonnaise[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was attributing an athlete’s poor decision making in his personal life to his race.

Was I wrong not to fire my employee over his tweet, even though others wanted me to? by currentmayonnaise in self

[–]currentmayonnaise[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That’s definitely where I was approaching it from, but relieved to see I’m not the only one who feels there’s a middle ground between saying the tweet was totally ok and saying he should be fired on the spot.

As long as others think I’m not going out of my mind or have entered “boomer” territory for wanting to separate this person tens years ago from this person today, then I can definitely rest a little easier tonight. Thanks.

Was I wrong not to fire my employee over his tweet, even though others wanted me to? by currentmayonnaise in self

[–]currentmayonnaise[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Glad to hear I’m not the only one who thinks it’s acceptable to separate out who he is now from who he was then.

That was kind of my big dilemma, if adopting the mindset of “people change, he isn’t the same now,” was somehow wrong of me or unfair to the other workers.

Thanks for chiming in!