We all love to send memes, gifs and funny catch phrases to our friends via text. It's what makes the people of todays world smile and laugh. You can't help but feel a little bit of hope when your roommate sends you a photo with a picture of a suite in the city with caption saying "All this work will pay off one day, don't stop."
Pictures like those can serve all different types of purposes! I myself like to have pictures like that to have on hand to send to a buddy whenever I feel like.
Well, lets get to my point here. Recently there was a firing of a top executive at one of the biggest telecom giants in the world, AT&T. The case is revolved around President Aaron Slator who sent a picture of a little african boy dancing with the caption " It's Friday n****".
The suit was filed by another top executive who's spent 30 years of her life at AT&T, Knoyme King. AT&T fired Slator and had a brief statement on how they don't tolerate that type of behavior at their company and sorry for not taking any action earlier.
I think the firing of Slator was both a guilt decision and right choice for the company. Guilt, because a company that big with that big of an impact to a huge market can't be seen having people at their own company behave like Slator did. The right choice because no place of professionalism and high value like AT&T should have people at the top be behaving themselves like that during the work week. Sure it was a harmless text to him, but to others it can rub the wrong way and in the case, cost you a $100 million suit.
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