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Man loses million dollar job after posting Youtube video

madoka

madoka

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Remember the guy who complained about Chick-fil-A's policies to a drive through worker?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg-jzlWcc0E#t=80

Now he is homeless and living by the river in a van.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/03/29/adam-smith-chick-fil-a-video-memoir/70629290/

Things haven't gone too well for the former CFO who criticized Chick-fil-A in a video he posted on YouTube.

Unable to find lasting work, 37-year-old Adam Smith is living on food stamps with his wife and four kids in the RV they call home, he tells ABC News. "I think people are scared," Smith says of potential employers. "I think people are scared that it could happen again."

Back in the summer of 2012, as thousands of people were opposing Chick-fil-A's stance on gays, Smith rolled into a Chick-fil-A drive-thru for a free glass of water and slammed the female attendant: "Chick-fil-A is a hateful corporation," Smith told her as the filmed the exchange. "I don't know how you live with yourself and work here. I don't understand it."

Smith posted the video before returning to work at Vante, a Tucson-based medical manufacturer — and the proverbial you-know-what had hit the fan by the time he got there.

The receptionist told him "the voicemail is completely full, and it's full of bomb threats," he says. Fired that day, Smith lost his $200,000 salary and more than $1 million in stock options. He and his family moved to Portland, where he got a CFO job, but lost it two weeks later when they realized who he was.

He says he has since been honest in interviews, but companies have been too wary of fallout to hire him. "I don't regret the stand I took, but I regret… the way I talked to her," an emotional Smith says of the worker.

The interview coincides with his recent digital release of a memoir, A Million Dollar Cup of Water (a paperback version is out April 21), which chronicles his professional collapse and years of soul-searching. It's not faring so well on Amazon, which Smith addressed on the site on Friday. "Regarding the many 1-star ratings my book has received today and yesterday, I would like to note that I have only sold 17 digital copies thus far, yet there are 23 1-star ratings on my book. This fascinates me! LOL!"
 
I don't get people who attack the minimum wage jockeys that work for these companies. As if the poor girl at the drive-thru window has any say determining corporate policy. She's just some poor schmuck trying to make a living whatever way she can. He's an asshole and elitist for attacking her like that.

On the flip side, Vante should have stood behind their employee. The company obviously has no balls whatsoever for firing him like that. The situation would have blown over in a week had they just ignored it, or shocker, defended him. That's always the case. Probably would have gotten more business from the pro-gay groups.

So in short, everyone in this whole situation is an asshole.
 
I'm honestly surprised he hasn't been able to find a job in Portland. We don't have a Chick-Fil-A in the state and we're extremely pro-gay, so his comments would be enormously popular here... But yeah, there's no excuse for taking out your frustration on a minimum wage employee who has zero say in setting corporate policy. That's just pure jackassery, and doesn't speak well about the professionalism of a C-level executive.
 
This is a "pile on" society.

If someone or some company is doing something you don't like, you get on social media and gang up on the offender, until they submit to your notions of how the world should be.

It doesn't always work, and sometimes it backfires...
 
People who saw that video feel, and probably rightly, that they are getting a glimpse into who the guy really is, and they don't like it. What was it Lincoln said? Something like "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt." Now there's a lesson for the Internet age.
 
LTC8K6 said:
This is a "pile on" society.

If someone or some company is doing something you don't like, you get on social media and gang up on the offender, until they submit to your notions of how the world should be.

It doesn't always work, and sometimes it backfires...
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It's the same minority of people that it's always been. It's just that social media has given them both a bigger soap box and a faster way to organize themselves. The phony moral outrage usually comes from the left wing retards these days. Always fun to see the right wing nutters join the fray.
 
Markbnj said:
People who saw that video feel, and probably rightly, that they are getting a glimpse into who the guy really is, and they don't like it. What was it Lincoln said? Something like "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt." Now there's a lesson for the Internet age.
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Exactly it. Why should the business take a gamble that the guy won't do it again? say he did something stupid yet again and it hits the news yet again. people are going to question his employer.

also why would a company want the negitive publicity?

even ignoring that. If that is how he treats a cashier how is he treating the people under him?

naa. sorry he ain't worth the risk.
 
Lol, that's great. Fuck that guy. I don't want to hear your stupid opinion on Chick-Fil-A's policies. Take your fucking order and get the fuck out of my way.
 
If you ever feel so entitled you need to go belittle people at your local drive through let me know. I was in Afghanistan this one time and I shot this 16 year old in the chest it was pretty sweet. He ended up suffocating through his 'chesticular' wall "ROFL!".

Nah but seriously he died breathing his own blood. Served him right for watching me though.
 
Another case of "when keep it real goes wrong".


I saw the video of how he behaved and he was an ass for that cashier.
 
Svnla said:
Another case of "when keep it real goes wrong".


I saw the video of how he behaved and he was an ass for that cashier.
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Bro, don't infringe on his rights. He was part of the elite. He could criticize their lifestyles. Fucking hater.
 
Upside? Now he might know why people work in places they ordinarily wouldn't want to. To pay for their family and camper by the river, for instance.
 
It's time for Chick-fil-A to tell him that he has a job with them whenever he wants. But I get the sense that he hasn't learned his lesson yet.
 
After the OP's youtube link played I got punted onto a video from the Young Turks on the same subject. The idiot chick started saying the guy should never have lost his job because he has freedom of speech guaranteed by the Constitution. The stupidity is astounding.
 
stormkroe said:
Upside? Now he might know why people work in places they ordinarily wouldn't want to. To pay for their family and camper by the river, for instance.
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Well according to his description of his book:

"As the journey continues, Adam has found that instead of seeking the ever-moving bar of financial success and approval of others, building the great personal wealth that comes from embracing imperfections and living an authentic life is worth any price."

He's happily living an authentic life down by the river.

I still can't believe this DB is trying to make a living as a "life coach."
 
The guy doesn't deserve all this though. Someone should give him a chance... Or maybe he's just bad.

Markbnj said:
People who saw that video feel, and probably rightly, that they are getting a glimpse into who the guy really is, and they don't like it. What was it Lincoln said? Something like "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt." Now there's a lesson for the Internet age.
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>.< I r work on being more serious now.
 
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Kushina said:
The guy doesn't deserve all this though. Someone should give him a chance... Or maybe he's just bad.



>.< I r work on being more serious now.
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Eventually someone will give him a chance. There's redemption at the end in a lot of these stories. Public emotion works both ways.
 
There is some truth to what he says. When you work for evil you condone it. That girl worked for evil, so she condoned it. She is helping send money to support the execution of homosexual in Africa.
 
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DCal430 said:
There is some truth to what he says. When you work for evil you condone it. That girl worked for evil, so she condoned it. She is helping send money to support the execution of homosexual in Africa.
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So the chicken nuggets I ate meant that I helped Sharia practicing Muslims kill homosexuals in Africa?

There's only 10 countries in the world that executes homosexuals. Notice what they have in common?

Yemen: According to 1994 penal code, married men can be sentenced to death by stoning for homosexual intercourse. Unmarried men face whipping or one year in prison. Women face up to seven years in prison.

Iran: In accordance with sharia law, homosexual intercourse between men can be punished by death, and men can be flogged for lesser acts such as kissing. Women may be flogged.

Iraq: The penal code does not expressly prohibit homosexual acts, but people have been killed by militias and sentenced to death by judges citing sharia law.

Mauritania: Muslim men engaging in homosexual sex can be stoned to death, according to a 1984 law. Women face prison.

Nigeria: Federal law classifies homosexual behavior as a felony punishable by imprisonment, but several states have adopted sharia law and imposed a death penalty for men. A law signed in early January makes it illegal for gay people countrywide to hold a meeting or form clubs.

Qatar: Sharia law in Qatar applies only to Muslims, who can be put to death for extramarital sex, regardless of sexual orientation.

Saudi Arabia: Under the country’s interpretation of sharia law, a married man engaging in sodomy or any non-Muslim who commits sodomy with a Muslim can be stoned to death. All sex outside of marriage is illegal.

Somalia: The penal code stipulates prison, but in some southern regions, Islamic courts have imposed Sharia law and the death penalty.

Sudan: Three-time offenders under the sodomy law can be put to death; first and second convictions result in flogging and imprisonment. Southern parts of the country have adopted more lenient laws.

United Arab Emirates: Lawyers in the country and other experts disagree on whether federal law proscribes the death penalty for consensual homosexual sex or only for rape. In a recent Amnesty International report, the organization said it was not aware of any death sentences for homosexual acts. All sexual acts outside of marriage are banned.
 
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