re: Should involvment in community organizations cost you your job?

Well, common sense tells me that if I, as a pharmaceutical sales rep, join a local "BIG PHARMA IS THE DEVIL" activist group and publicly espouse that philosophy, then I better be prepared to lose my job.

By the standards of this board, I'm liberal as all hell but no one has the "right" to any job.

If I feel my right to say whatever I want is more important than paying my bills, then I am absolutely free to make that choice.

My employer is also absolutely free to fire my arse if my behavior negatively impacts their business or image.

Good job performance is not the only thing that an employer considers when evaluating the value of an employee.