That grocery store clerk in Cleveland lost his job over a joke, and the other guy who said way worse kept his
Last month I watched two guys in the same store get into it over a dumb comment, and one of them got fired while the other just got a talking to. The difference was that the guy who kept his job apologized right away and the other one doubled down on Facebook for like a week. I keep coming back to how much of a cancel is just about what you do in the 48 hours after, not the thing itself. Is the apology timeline really the fairest way to sort this stuff out, or should we stop pretending it means anything about the person?