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Woman fired for Halloween costume

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mmntech said:
I'm going to defend this woman because I think it's the only correct and civilized response to this situation. The fact that she wore this costume and tweeted it to her friends may have been silly on her part. However, it was wrong of her to lose her job over it. She has freedom of expression in her private sphere. Also the place she worked for didn't seem to have an issue with it at the time. Finally, the people who caught wind of this picture and got all hot and bothered over it waged a massive cyber bullying campaign against her. She got punished by lynch mob rule.

To put it into perspective, I think you'd be hard pressed to find any member on this forum who hasn't posted something stupid or offensive at one time or another. How would you feel is someone took an "offensive" post you made in P&N and used it to wage a campaign to take away your job? Probably pretty bad, victimized even?

At some point, we decided as a society that mob rule it the correct rule. Which history has shown is rarely the case. Just proves you just need a couple hundred people to be sufficiently "outraged" to take away someone's living and destroy their lives. Each one of these people who attacked this woman should be charged with stalking.
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:thumbsup:

I didn't even get the costume until I read the article.
 
Hmm... if the letter of the law is to be followed, all that threatened her and her family should likely be put in prison.
 
I'll go with overreaction. I don't think she have been fired.

Also, too many vindictive people persecuting her.

I would expect people in Boston to be very sensitive about this. That I can understand. But she's in Michigan.

Stalking and harassing her is way out-of-line.

Fern
 
mmntech said:
I'm going to defend this woman because I think it's the only correct and civilized response to this situation. The fact that she wore this costume and tweeted it to her friends may have been silly on her part. However, it was wrong of her to lose her job over it. She has freedom of expression in her private sphere. Also the place she worked for didn't seem to have an issue with it at the time. Finally, the people who caught wind of this picture and got all hot and bothered over it waged a massive cyber bullying campaign against her. She got punished by lynch mob rule.

To put it into perspective, I think you'd be hard pressed to find any member on this forum who hasn't posted something stupid or offensive at one time or another. How would you feel is someone took an "offensive" post you made in P&N and used it to wage a campaign to take away your job? Probably pretty bad, victimized even?

At some point, we decided as a society that mob rule it the correct rule. Which history has shown is rarely the case. Just proves you just need a couple hundred people to be sufficiently "outraged" to take away someone's living and destroy their lives. Each one of these people who attacked this woman should be charged with stalking.
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Oh I totally agree and this stalking and bullying that happens after the fact is just disgusting and while I don't think she should have been fired, it is naive, and honestly just stupid to think it's ok to wear a costume like that to work in this day and age.

KT
 
mmntech said:
I'm going to defend this woman because I think it's the only correct and civilized response to this situation. The fact that she wore this costume and tweeted it to her friends may have been silly on her part. However, it was wrong of her to lose her job over it. She has freedom of expression in her private sphere. Also the place she worked for didn't seem to have an issue with it at the time. Finally, the people who caught wind of this picture and got all hot and bothered over it waged a massive cyber bullying campaign against her. She got punished by lynch mob rule.

To put it into perspective, I think you'd be hard pressed to find any member on this forum who hasn't posted something stupid or offensive at one time or another. How would you feel is someone took an "offensive" post you made in P&N and used it to wage a campaign to take away your job? Probably pretty bad, victimized even?

At some point, we decided as a society that mob rule it the correct rule. Which history has shown is rarely the case. Just proves you just need a couple hundred people to be sufficiently "outraged" to take away someone's living and destroy their lives. Each one of these people who attacked this woman should be charged with stalking.
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/this
 
mmntech said:
I'm going to defend this woman because I think it's the only correct and civilized response to this situation. The fact that she wore this costume and tweeted it to her friends may have been silly on her part. However, it was wrong of her to lose her job over it. She has freedom of expression in her private sphere. Also the place she worked for didn't seem to have an issue with it at the time. Finally, the people who caught wind of this picture and got all hot and bothered over it waged a massive cyber bullying campaign against her. She got punished by lynch mob rule.

To put it into perspective, I think you'd be hard pressed to find any member on this forum who hasn't posted something stupid or offensive at one time or another. How would you feel is someone took an "offensive" post you made in P&N and used it to wage a campaign to take away your job? Probably pretty bad, victimized even?

At some point, we decided as a society that mob rule it the correct rule. Which history has shown is rarely the case. Just proves you just need a couple hundred people to be sufficiently "outraged" to take away someone's living and destroy their lives. Each one of these people who attacked this woman should be charged with stalking.
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Well said. :thumbsup:
 
This is another one of those instances that reminds me I'm glad I didn't grow up in the social media world. She suffers from an extreme lack of good judgment but unfortunately for her she managed to allow the entire world to see her mistake. Oops.
 
Stuff like this makes me wonder if the United States's version of employment laws are a little too relaxed when it comes to employee termination. While I'm not an employment lawyer, I don't think it'd be quite so easy for a Canadian employer to fire her on the spot like she was here.
 
mmntech said:
I'm going to defend this woman because I think it's the only correct and civilized response to this situation. The fact that she wore this costume and tweeted it to her friends may have been silly on her part. However, it was wrong of her to lose her job over it. She has freedom of expression in her private sphere. Also the place she worked for didn't seem to have an issue with it at the time. Finally, the people who caught wind of this picture and got all hot and bothered over it waged a massive cyber bullying campaign against her. She got punished by lynch mob rule.

To put it into perspective, I think you'd be hard pressed to find any member on this forum who hasn't posted something stupid or offensive at one time or another. How would you feel is someone took an "offensive" post you made in P&N and used it to wage a campaign to take away your job? Probably pretty bad, victimized even?

At some point, we decided as a society that mob rule it the correct rule. Which history has shown is rarely the case. Just proves you just need a couple hundred people to be sufficiently "outraged" to take away someone's living and destroy their lives. Each one of these people who attacked this woman should be charged with stalking.
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I for one have no sympathy for her. She decided to post this up and naked pictures on the internet for everyone to see. I'm sure once they learned she was naked all over the net, they got rid of her. Not something any respectable company would want as a part of their image. Since these kids hashtag everything: #welcometotherealworld
 
zerocool84 said:
I for one have no sympathy for her. She decided to post this up and naked pictures on the internet for everyone to see. I'm sure once they learned she was naked all over the net, they got rid of her. Not something any respectable company would want as a part of their image. Since these kids hashtag everything: #welcometotherealworld
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It's terrible judgment, on her part. But the punishment certainly doesn't fit the "crime".
 
yllus said:
Stuff like this makes me wonder if the United States's version of employment laws are a little too relaxed when it comes to employee termination. While I'm not an employment lawyer, I don't think it'd be quite so easy for a Canadian employer to fire her on the spot like she was here.
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Michigan is an at will State. They can fire her without giving her a reason.
 
Doppel said:
Oh for God's sake, really. Young adults these days are so fucking stupid. Look at all the stupid shit she has posted online, and now she has taken down all her social media accounts (according to some article), damage control well after it's too late.

I blame it on parents hopelessly ignorant about the internet letting their kids act like total maniacs online.
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Wow big ass biker gang tattoo on her body.

She seems like a dumb attention whore. Definitely not marriage material.
 
Seems like an over-reaction. I would guess that she was causing other issues at work and this was the justification the company used to part ways with her.
 
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