Your workplace environment might take a drastic turn thanks to a pair of rulings from the National Labor Relations Board. According to the NLRB, it's not a fireable offense for an employee to launch a profanity-laced tirade against their boss.
The Washington Examiner reports that the pair of rulings involved a Starbucks in New York and a car dealership in Arizona.
In the Arizona case, a worker was fired for calling his boss an "a--hole" and "f---ing crook." The insults came during a meeting over the employee's wages. The boss allegedly told his employee that if he didn't like his wages, he could work somewhere else.
Apparently that fact-based, reasonable assertion was interpreted by the Obama administration's labor board as an "implied threat" of firing and justified the tongue-lashing featuring several of George Carlin's seven dirty words.
As if protecting a worker's "right" to literally bitch out their boss wasn't outrageous enough, team Obama also ruled that employees can drop "F-bombs" in front of customers and still keep their jobs.
That case involved a Manhattan barista who was a vocal union supporter. He was fired in 2005 after he came into the store he worked at on his off hours to engage in a union protest. He then became involved in an altercation with a customer who was also a Starbucks manager from a different store. The worker told the other manager "You can go f--- yourself" in front of customers, among other things.
The Chamber of Commerce rightly protested the rulings and described the NLRB's actions as "flat-out undermining the ability of employers to exercise even the most basic principles of running a business."