NLRB: it's ok to F-bomb the boss on Facebook.

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ordered an employer to reinstate an employee who posted an obscenity-laden rant about his supervisor on Facebook. Pier Sixty is a catering service in New York City, where several workers felt that one particular supervisor treated them disrespectfully.

The employees were seeking union representation. Two days before the election, the supervisor allegedly chastised workers in front of several customers.

A worker then posted to Facebook:

Bob is such a NASTYMF-er don't know how to talk to people!!!!!! F*** his mother and his entire f***ing family!!!! What a LOSER!!!! Vote YES for the UNION!!!!!!!

He was fired, and...

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