I'm personally outraged by people who think it's okay to write emails and chat messages with improper punctuation and spelling mistakes. Mixed case sentences, emojis, and made up capitalized abbreviations make my blood boil. But none of that is grounds for me getting those people terminated.
If I don't want to deal them I can go work somewhere else. That's the right I have. Not the right to silence them.
It's the same if they decide to express their political opinions or sports affiliations.
For another example: It would be the same as saying Blacks are inferior to 2. political opinions.
That is NOT OK. It is not a question of being outraged, it is a question of a hostile workplace.
No I'm not. I'm saying that there is a distinction between being offended/outraged and being harassed. Just because someone is offended by something doesn't mean it's harassment. My examples were explicitly meant to be silly to demonstrate the point.
What?
Harassment is different and can be objectively defined in the scope of the business and/or role.
But outrage/offense is subjective. You can change your views from one day to the next, or flip perspectives over lunch. You don't get to come back from lunch with a new view, and have a 'right not to be offended'.
You come across as very entitled.