Cancelling

There's a wave of firings going on because of intemperate remarks over Charlie Kirk's assassination.

Before we panic about becoming the new cancel culture, can I share an anecdote from The Lovely Harvey?

She's the third person on the line when the recording says, "This call may be monitored for quality assurance."

It's literally her job to discipline and fire employees who talk about things that have nothing to do with the job.

Pitching your religion or politics to a customer is a proven way to get fired where she works.

What has changed since Kirk was killed is the managers aren't fighting to keep the employee in violation and Harvey has asked them, "how come?"

It turns out that the employees frothing about how great it is that, "Charlie Fucking Kirk," is dead, on the phones to the customers, have been shitty workers for as long as the managers can remember.  But they were workers that never, quite, crossed the line far enough to get fired over it.

These managers were looking for an excuse with this group and, in the past week, have collectively said, "Oh!  Rope's on sale!  Now we can afford enough to get hanged!" 

It also turns out the frothing ragers area different group from the ones the managers defended.

The ones that were being defended were getting sales.  They got sales by establishing rapport with the customer and sensing what religion or political affiliation would get them comfortable and signing on the dotted line.  This is despite a prohibition on getting religious or political on a sales call!

The defense was, "look at their sales numbers!  Can't we let this one time slide?"

Harvey has repeatedly pointed out that it's not just the one time...

These ones who are not being defended weren't being political on the phones until just a few days ago and their sales suck...

Being bad at your job has always been a great way to lose your job.