World gone mad: Music conductor fired for making racist joke even though "victim" says no.

[DonFerrari]

Machiavellian said:

DonFerrari said:

So a white person thinking that what another white man talked with his black friend is an indicative of racism even when the black friend says it isn't... and you think that is normal? You do know that the way it was held the claim could even be false and the person lose his job over a lie right? You do know that is why there are laws against false crime report.

Who said anything about racism.  I said if someone found it offensive and if it was inappropriate behavior at work no matter what the 2 party believed was the case, then you can be terminated.  It does not matter if the person was white, black, Asian you name it.  For some reason you think it’s about what you believe or feel but it’s not.  It's what your job has stated is appropriate or not.  What most people do not know is that little handbook that says what is appropriate and what is not and your state rights.  Most corporations have extensive video on the subject so there are clear guidelines on the subject.  The only reason this is even made news is because it was white/black.

People lose their job over lies all the time.  As I stated, it’s up to this person to defend himself over the issue and to ligate over wrongful termination.  In some states you do have this right in the US and in some like Ohio you do not.  

OP is about racism.

Yes I'm aware of the handbooks, my company have one and we follow it.

Yes people are terminated for lies and in this case there was no process, just express termination, reason for the post to exist.

Yes there would be litigation, so the school preferred to pay to settle.

So basically we saw that it was a very dumb decision that costed the school a employee, money and possibly some of its name. So it was very badly handed.