Off-the-Job Online Posts Cost a Portland Man His Job [POLL]

Where is the line today?  Where is that line dividing your corporate responsibility from your personal responsibility and First Amendment rights?Can your employer hold your private posts against you and more than that, can you be fired from the job for what you write on your own page on your own time?

Here is why we ask: Nordstrom has fired a Portland employee after the sales associate apparently posted a controversial statement using his personal Facebook page advocating the killing of police officers.

"What our former employee chose to post from his personal account does not in any way reflect our views as a company," said Tara Darrow, a Nordstrom corporate affairs spokeswoman. "We do not tolerate violence, violent conversation or threats of any kind."

Nordstrom sales associate Aaron Hodges has since taken down his Facebook and Twitter accounts, but a screen shot of his comment has been circulating online.

Aaron Hodges is black and In response to recent police shootings he suggested on Facebook: "Instead of slamming the police, I prefer a Kenny Fort approach. Every time an unarmed black man is killed, you kill a decorated white officer, on his door step in front of his family."

Online critics went after Nordstrom, where Hodges worked at the downtown Portland, Ore. location. His personal Facebook page included what appears to be a photo inside the store and link to the retailer.

Nordstrom used social media to respond to dozens of angry tweets and online posts about the controversy.

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