Apparently Knoyme King, "a 50-year-old black woman who worked for Slator," wasn't happy with her career advancement and went through his phone looking for something to get on her boss. So she found a message [that he sent to someone else] containing a meme that some of you may have seen before. It has been designated as racist.
AT&T, in business that sells goods and services in a very competitive and PR-oriented market, decided to throw their President of Content and Ad Sales over the side, hoping it would appease the sharks in the media and legal profession.
It did not; the $100 million lawsuit goes on.
I bet a Dixie Boy firecracker label would drive the PC crowd over the top.
Maybe she planted it?...................
Um...is she facing charges for theft?
She went through HIS phone. Wow...that is anknoying.
I have black fatigue. Every time I see the word “racism” in a post, I close the page. I am weary of what this culture has become. I abhor the “news” media. I want nothing to do with the government. I want to be left alone. If there were only some other place to go, some place where reason still reigned.
The firing keeps the cost from going to $200,000,000.00
The second lesson: be VERY careful who you allow to be your personal assistant/secretary. You can only be betrayed by somebody you have mistakenly given trust to.
Just what promotions can a personal secretary to the boss expect?
There’s some context behind the picture that folks are lacking.
It’s from a documentary about children growing up in various cultures.
That little African boy was an amazing dancer, and just epitomized the joy of celebration.
“It’s FRIDAY!”
Reminds me of a certain pro team owner that said something in a private phone call that was illegally recorded and he was forced to sell his team.
It’s why I make the argument that the D’s and R’s are wings of the same party and their goal is to destroy small business and make the constitution irrelevant.
People who work for government or large corporations sacrifice their constitutional rights to support their families. Small business owners and their employees are “loose canons” that the planners don’t like dealing with. They can’t be controlled as easily.
This is part of why BOTH PARTIES support obamacare. It destroys small businesses and keeps them from growing, while large companies just take it in stride and adjust prices accordingly. They have entire departments to deal with this stuff.
And if you are anti-big government, you are an R, but if you are anti-big business, you are a D. And even the most powerful members of business and government are not protected from this sort of nonsense. The “company” and the “government” are not human entities, and every human within them is under their thumb.
As Fred Reed mused a few years ago, we are becoming the worlds first dictatorship without a dictator.
My, kind of reminds you of how a “picture” got a secretary (she had made a Xerox copy of her rear end) fired at Deere and Co. in Moline, IL back in 1980, lol.
AT&T is a notoriously pro-homosexual organization.
Wonder if this policy will extend to their Christian employees, as well.
I’m retired from at&t and I didn’t know this guy. He’s from Houston from his Bio
http://www.marshall.usc.edu/faculty/centers/board/aaron-g-slator
This is unusual for at&t to NOT have taken action on someone like this fast. I have seem from technicians to executives walked out the door fast regarding racism or sexual harassment. The largest suit I ever gave a deposition on regarding an employee (I was middle management) was 6 million. But 100 million? This seems very excessive. If she worked for him as his assistant and was a manager, she was most likely a 2nd level. Normally no one moves past 2nd level without an MBA. That’s just the way it is. There may be a lot of un-revealed things here. I know that if you can move forward in the department you’re in, you move to another department. And this guy came back to at&t and moved into a president position. So there might have been some jealousy. But the guy set himself up with this one.
More like “fired for being stupid as Hell”.
Just goes to show that hiring blacks is a real bad idea.
“...for using his work phone...”
I bet a dime to a doughnut he’d dropped his AT&T plan on the company phone...and signed up with Verizon.
Meme is funnier than hell