🍺 PUB TEST: How Do You Feel About Firing Employees For Infidelity?

Does firing employees for infidelity pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gem Nation down.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
To the juggy demand arounds for the pub test today.
Firing employees for infidelity, does it pass the pub test?
Sounds extraordinary? But Natalie Dawson is a CEO. She was
being interviewed by Steve Bartlett, who's another CEO and his
podcast called Funny Enough Diary of the Ceo, and she said.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
This, I publicly shared a TikTok about firing somebody because
I found out that she was cheating on her significant other.
And the other person also had a significant other, and
as soon as I found out about it, it terminated
both of them. One would say, that's none of your
business what they're doing when they go home. Not to
get into specifics of the particular event, but it happened
to be around work.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
But if it wasn't at work, you still even.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
If it was, I would fire the person immediately.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
See for someone for shooting.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
If they're going to cheat on the person they're supposed
to spend the rest of her life with, do you
think that they're cheating on their work? That person is
a liability to the environment.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
I've thoughts about this. If you caught him bagging on
the bathroom floor, shaggy style.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Then yes, possibly, But where do you draw the line
on what kind of a you were tolerating your employees?
What if it's someone who has no friends, someone who
is a social liability, someone who is a drinker. Where
do you draw the line? She's drawn it at infidelity,
but I think that's off limits. Your private life is
your private life. We're allowing too much access into our

(01:16):
private lives. They don't own our lives. Firing employees for infidelity?
Does it pass the pub test?

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Ah?

Speaker 1 (01:22):
I don't think it pasts the pub test. In one
of my workplaces, if it was rampant and then we
wouldn't have had no employees. But where do you draw
the line? As Amanda said, bad breath, flatulence? You know,
do you sack everyone that's got something bad in their lives?
So yeah, it definitely doesn't pass us up test.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
So I guess what it comes down to the company.
What happened outside the workplace is now out of business.
It's got a private bath for reasons. What happens on
to a stays on tour and just leave it be.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
I think it's more to generate discussion because it wouldn't
even hold up in the SERA Work Commission is someone
to do that. You can't do that because it's got
no merit and it just wouldn't stand up.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
Totally experience that. My husband was fired from his jobs
from having an affair with someone at work and they
ended up having a baby, So I think they were
right to fire him on a morality chuse, you're not
a problem.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
With that, you see, Yikes, it happens in the real world.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
I've brought some work home with me.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
You know Sharon from accounts, Well, you should see the
weight she's putting on.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Imagine if they did that in politics, Rich, I wouldn't
have lasted two weeks.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Wow, interesting times.