Got fired at work because of myspace blog

Littleotau submitted 135 days ago

K, so something similar just happened to me today at my old job. I worked for Nordstrom until 3pm instead of 4pm. Why? This coworker of mine was on my friend list on my My-space, which I had set it to private meaning it is not viewable by anyone else who's not on my list.

I posted a blog saying "nappy headed cunt," which was toward some girls I knew back then, and one of the girls lived with me for a couple of weeks. Anyway, the coworker on my friend list is African American and felt so offended by the word "nappy headed" that she decided to gossip about me to another black coworker at work. So now I got two black girls against me. They decided to print out my blog, brought it to work, and discussed it to human resource. HR had the nerve to question who I was stating the blog about, why, and if it was not to the black girls, it was very offensive and racist of me to do so, and that I'm termed period. Hr. also said I'm fired not because of the complaint but the fact it got brought to work by a coworker on my page, so that meant that it was work related. WTH. How is that work related? Later she said, that she and another manager whom I never met name Chris as well made the choice to term my position because it was their personal view of my page. I said, well you shouldn't even have seen my page, because it was private, you saw it through people who were gossiping about me to begin with. My free speech is something offered in the amendments. I have the freedom of speech, can have a web page, or publish anything out there. Nordstrom had no business in questioning about my personal life outside of work, my set to private web page. So anyway I was terminated for that. She and another manager made the personal choice to fire me because the words were derogatory towards blacks as a common sense, even if it's not in the dictionary, and that My-space is unique and is work related," according to Chris the Hr lady. She also had the nerve to suggest me to apply for Starbucks and get on unemployment right away. She offered me her business card and said I can even use her as a personal reference to help me get a job. LOL! So I lastly asked Chris Rominger who fired me what's my termination say on her computer, she says "poor performance." WTF. I thought I got fired because of Myspace. Right?
Anyhow, this is her Nordstrom business card she left me with the cash they just paid me due to my termination.

Chris Rominger
Manager
Human Resources
1651 Arden Wy. Sacramento, CA 95815
(T) 916.646.2400 etc. 1809
(E) chris.rominger@nordstrom.com

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