Wikipedia, character assassination and practical jokes
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:59 pm[quote="Hodur"]If anyone reads the fishwrap known as "USA Today," you might have read a commentary by John Siegenthaler (posted at the bottom of the page) bashing Wikipedia. The basis behind that commentary is covered in . A guy playing a trick on a co-worker posted false information on Wikipedia about Siegenthaler's involvement in the Kennedy assassination.
Aside from the ramifications to Wikipedia and Siegenthaler, here's what I find disturbing: The guy was forced to resign from his job. He must work for Wikipedia, right? Or for a Siegenthaler-run organization? Or maybe he is a journalist, and doing something like this undermined his credibility?
No, no, and no. He was an operations manager at a Nashville delivery company.
Why would someone have to resign from a job for a practical joke that didn't impact the business in any way? This doesn't make any sense to me. This guy certainly shouldn't have done it, and might be liable for libel damages. Should he lose his job over it though? Is a bad sense of humor grounds for firing now?
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I would fire him becasue it is an ethics thing or a lack of ethics. Actions have consequences. It is probably aggravated by the fact he probably did it while at work. Maybe I am too ingrained with military and our sense of justice where you are a soldier 24/7, but if I was employer and someone did something criminal or something this astonshingly stupid I would can them. I look at the character of people that work for me. You get busted for drugs, bam you are gone (becasue you are so stupid to get caught)
Wikipedia is the devil and I immediately discount any argument that sites to that as a source.
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