1. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson talked recently about being limited in opportunities in his career. “A lot of times, it’s harder for us, or at least for me, sometimes to know what you’re capable of when you’ve been pigeon-holed into something,” he told reporters in Venice, Italy at the 82nd Venice Film Festival. “This is your lane. This is what you do, and this is what people want you to be, and this is what Hollywood wants you to be....I just had this burning desire and this voice that was saying, well again, ‘what if? But what if there is more? And what if I can?’”
How common is it for someone to become so valued with what they currently do in their industry or with their employer that they, in essence, get blocked from their aspirations of trying new things, doing more and possibly succeeding at them too?
2. When someone highly accomplished and with a voice like Dwayne Johnson can feel blocked in expanding his skill set and doing different things in his profession, what about people who are less publicly visible and maybe, less seen?
posted9/18/2025
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Recently published by communicationintelligence.substack.com
Employment Prospects of People Suspended or Fired: Charlie Kirk's murder
Are we, as a collective, forgetting what we learned as children, that certain communication can get us in hot water? This article will talk about the possible employment future of people who spoke out in a way that was considered offensive in regards to a murder (one many of us have seen up close on video) of a public speaker.
1. What does it say to workers and society when employers are either terminating or suspending employees who publicly communicated their approval and maybe, glee at a person being shot through the neck and murdered while speaking publicly?
2. Do employees crude public comments about the murder make employers uneasy, beyond the public relations danger, about the trustworthiness of their employees' character and possible capacity for violence themselves?
3. What will likely become of employees' future employment prospects who publicly communicated any type of emotion of approval for the Kirk killing?