Kill All The Levity
As Jordan B. Peterson put it in a tweet:
@jordanbpeterson
The next life the PC Authoritarians ruin may be yours.
Read this guy's ad for somebody to assist in the dining hall he runs, er, ran -- before he was fired by Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada over that ad.
I read between the lines that he's a fun, warm, friendly guy who tries to make the workplace both fun and a good place to work. 
But Laura Hensley writes in Canada's Nat Post:
Sandor Dosman, who runs Veritas Café at the Waterloo, Ont., university, said the school's Graduate Students' Association called him into its boardroom on Monday, showed him a copy of the ad he posted and terminated his contract."I had the ad in front of me, saying, 'What was it? Was it the word slave? Was it the word kill? As in try not to kill our customers?" he said. "I dug a little bit and said is there something more to this? But they just said, 'No, it's because of this ad,' and that's it."
The student group had two security guards escort Dosman off campus. The café, which was set to close next week for the holidays, was shut down, too.
...Dosman, who ran the cafe for nearly five years, posted the ad in late November in the Facebook group "Food in the Waterloo Region." He said the ad received a good response, with many people applying for the job and others sending him messages complimenting his humour.
Who wins here?
Even the former president of the students' association, Robert P. Bruce, is against the group's actions. On Friday, Laurier's campus newspaper, the Cord, published an open letter from Bruce to the association, calling the incident a "mistake.""I am deeply disappointed and embarrassed by your actions over the course of the past few days," Bruce wrote.
"If one lapse of good judgment is enough to condemn a man that spent the greater part of four and a half years supporting your community, then in turn, your own lapse of good judgment in this one situation is enough for your membership and the community to act against you."
As the cafe is mostly visited by students and faculty, Dosman said he is going to miss the close relationships he built with his customers.
"You know their names, you know what they drink, you know how much sugar they take in their coffee," he said. "Now that's all been taken away."
What this tells people is that they need to go to work in fear every day that they might say something that will get them fired.
No fun. No levity.
It's sick and terrible that this is what's become of formerly free speech in Canada and the U.S.
via @jordanbpeterson
I posted on his FB page:
Amy Alkon at December 16, 2016 10:40 PM
That's the problem. No student group should ever have the power to have someone removed from campus. To a student government weenie, the temptation to use that power is irresistible. Further, security guards and campus police officer should be enjoined from honoring such a request.
Ditto regarding the power to conduct an unsupervised kangaroo court and inflict penalties.
Lastango at December 16, 2016 11:28 PM
Walmart haters welcome to the world of small "family" business where the "family" comes first before the business, the customers, or the community it serves.
Yes he was dealt a bad hand but this is the real world where the "family" does whatever it wants.
It's their business and they have so few employees (other than family) that they can pretty much ignore any business practice they want (except for wedding cakes which are deadly deceptive in their 'cuteness').
Big business (Walmart for example) which employs lots of USA employees (unlike Apple in suicide city) has rules to follow, policy dictated by government (for good reason), and is responsive to the community. (Who got to disaster city first? Walmart or FEMA?)
Assuming this guy does not want to be his own boss, maybe he will get an employment opportunity from another small business owner. I sure hope so.
But this is the stuff that drives people to be their own boss. It's not the hours (long) or the pay (small).
Bob in Texas at December 17, 2016 5:34 AM
To Progressives, humor is a weapon (see, Alinsky's Rules for Radicals). Thus, any use of humor by someone other than themselves is perceived as an attack, justifying a violent response. Here, that was calling the police to remove the perp (and, if possible, arrest and prosecution).
Wfjag at December 17, 2016 5:39 AM
What this tells people is that they need to go to work in fear every day that they might say something that will get them fired.
If they didn't know that already (especially in totalitarian Canada) they're dumb.
dee nile at December 17, 2016 5:51 AM
This guy was an employee of the university, presumably. Then why is a student organization making the HR decisions on him? Has the university administration abdicated hiring and firing decisions to the students? If so, why are the adults hiding behind the school's most radical children, allowing them to do their dirty work for them? If they can't even do their own firing, which is a basic function of management, why are they drawing a paycheck to manage the place?
cpabroker at December 17, 2016 6:50 AM
How is it students (see CUSTOMERS) have the power to terminate his contract with the university (see BUSINESS)?
Does Wal Mart allow their customers to fire the business like Subway or McDonalds renting space from them?
Also what were the term of his contract? As he was given no definable reason, no specific clause of his contract that he violated to justify the termination of his contract, should he be able to sue for breach of contract?
Claim damages in the amount of assumed profit over the remainder of his lease terms?
lujlp at December 17, 2016 8:46 AM
What about inventory in the establishment that will spoil? To be crude but accurate, these guys who did this are dicks. If they really wanted to be decent, and to sever ties, he should have been given enough notice that he could leave without being forced to incur further expense.
Someday I am going to write pirates.
Nelson Struck at December 17, 2016 9:27 AM
Lawyer up and punch back twice as hard.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at December 17, 2016 12:18 PM
@ Wfjag at December 17, 2016 5:39 AM,
+1
Andrew Garland at December 17, 2016 2:15 PM
"To Progressives, humor is a weapon (see, Alinsky's Rules for Radicals). "
People who are Cluster B personality disordered generally do not "get" ordinary humor. They view it as a waste of time. What they find humorous is cruelty towards people that they consider inferior to themselves. This is my canonical example (I once heard something similar to it told as an actual joke): "Did you hear the one about the Republicans who got AIDS? They all died! HAHAHAHA!" This, in SJW world, is uproariously funny because it mocks the out-group. The fact that the joke doesn't work as basic humor is beside the point. (You could put in any out-group in place of "Republicans", and any calamity in place of "AIDS", and as long as the subject is an approved scapegoat group, the SJWs will be rolling in the aisles.)
Cousin Dave at December 19, 2016 9:35 AM
The only thing that I can think of that would have caused a problem was the reference to "slave." The rest of it shouldn't have raised any hairs.
Fayd at December 19, 2016 12:29 PM
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