Anonymous wrote:You don’t get to fire people for having opinions. assistant manager is a horrible leader as are you, both need fired or demoted.

No one has the first amendement right at work, except for people in agreement, dummy!

OP here. Edited version.

My assistant store manager came to me that she and who I will call employee A were talking about gay rights. Within that conversation, employee A stated that employee B made her uncomfortable a year prior because employee B made a comment that the idea of same-sex relationships are weird. Also, in that conversation was another person, who I will call employee C. My assistant store manager told me that employee B made both employee A and C horribly scared of working with B, even though A and B closed multiple times together, that they're scared for their life and that must've been why they didn't say anything until a year later, employee A had been ruminating about the event since a year ago, and that employee B must've gotten up in their faces and intimidated A and C to not speak up.

I talk to both employees and they confirm the allegations. Even though the behavior and incident are a one-off, I still find it totally inappropriate to discuss politics at work and ask if someone believes in God (!).

I then go to employee B, tell her what happened, and she admits to the allegations. B says that she doesn't hate gay people and wants them to have their rights. I Tell her that people are only allowed to talk about politcs is when they're in agreement. Then fast forward three weeks later, on Monday, one my sales leads comes up to me and tells me that the day before that employee B told several employees that they can't discuss speculating other people's sexuality and talking about sex acts because that is sexual harassment. Then employee A comes up to me and tells me her concerns that employee B is massively overstepping. I have to say to them that they won't and they have nothing to be afraid about because they haven't done or said anything wrong.

Employee B is seriously overstepping. She's doing my job! I'm thinking to myself, do I have to write her up again to stop her from harassing her coworkers? I'm at the end of my rope with this associate. Should I fire her?

I still want to fire employee B for harassing everyone and creating drama.

You don’t get to fire people for having opinions. assistant manager is a horrible leader as are you, both need fired or demoted.

I vote that you get fired, OP.

There’s no way I’m reading all of that. Write a shorter post, OP.

Anonymous wrote:

Exactly

Anonymous wrote:I’m a store manager at a retail outlet mall and recently , my assistant store manager came to me that she and who I will call employee A were talking about gay rights.

Sounds like B didn’t start the conversation, so if you want to fire someone for doing so, ASM and A are the ones you fire.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't read that whole thesis statement. But I can't figure out why people would be scared to work with someone who thought a YEAR AGO that gay people were weird.

They are scared for their lives from this employee. It's all Employee B's fault for making them scared to report her to me a year prior. You clearly don't know how to read.

Or, Op doesn’t know how to write.

Anonymous wrote:Post a one paragraph summary if you want advice.

This. A, B, C, D— what???

Anonymous wrote:You need to provide training before terminating or writing up

I'd rather fire than train others. This employee needs a wake up call that they're wrong that the LGBTQ+ community doesn't deserve rights! People like that deserve to be fired and their careers destroyed!

Anonymous wrote:I can't read that whole thesis statement. But I can't figure out why people would be scared to work with someone who thought a YEAR AGO that gay people were weird.

They are scared for their lives from this employee. It's all Employee B's fault for making them scared to report her to me a year prior. You clearly don't know how to read.

Working in retail was its own special hell. Thanks for the reminder.

Training, immediately.

You need to provide training before terminating or writing up

I can't read that whole thesis statement. But I can't figure out why people would be scared to work with someone who thought a YEAR AGO that gay people were weird.