Posted on 03/29/2015 9:18:22 PM PDT by sickoflibs
(Newser) – 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. He 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!"
Sorry, that should have been posted to you:
Remember:
“Scrape the bottom! Vote for Rodham!”
Unless you want to end up like Vince Foster.
It has been a good while since I even bothered to comment on someone complaining about multiple threads, but when I have, I am always amazed at the freep mail I get echoing my thoughts. I'll leave it at that. Enjoy your night....signing off.
Yeah, no kidding.
I'll try to hold up under the strain.
Ah, now I understand. You are one of those posters who have no concept of how FR operates, and how much a waste of bandwidth costs the rest of us who support this site. I did a quick search of donors, and -surprise!- did not find your name on any of the lists.
So, you are in fact a Liberal Democrat, used to using the resources of others while you contribute nothing but talking points in an attempt to bog this site down with inconsequential comments.
Of course you don’t care how much bandwidth others are taking up with redundant and unnecessary posts -it appears you care nothing for the continuation of this site so it actually would benefit you for it to go under.
Have a great night, and try not to be so confused in the future. I have a problem with repeat postings because of the drain they place on FR, while you seem to have no problem whatsoever about the load placed upon this site. Guess I know what your personal preferences are concerning the continuation of FR.
As far as your claim that others send you freepmail supporting multiple posts here, well, I am not surprised that you are all for anything that slows down or even stops this site so I think I will take your claim with the generous pound of salt it so obviously necessitates.
Enjoy being a legend in your own mind, slope.
Don’t call Me, I’ll call you. *cough* *cough* Sometime.
Great, Mr Sheeps-butt. Strain away.
You too ... at your gnats.
“gnats”? LOL. What are you, 9 yrs old? Are you even a native english-speaker? Oh, oh, that was hilarious! As insults go, you REALLY twitched the meter.
And you consider that an intellectual riposte?
Go back to High School, you obvious Ferguson resident.
Oh, don’t worry about it. This story never gets old.
I’ve gone over about a month of your past posts and don’t see a pattern, so I can only assume you’re a pedant and you’re drunk. Don’t take it personally; I’ve been there myself (apart from the pedantry).
whatever you’re on, it might be a good idea to put it down, back away from the keyboard and go to bed...
BTW, hi-jacking a thread is far more annoying that posting one that has been posted before -
OK, it’s late, and I’m willing to say I might be overreacting a bit.
Not a pedant, but have to admit I have been imbibing of The Amber Nectar this night, so why don’t we both grant that we will not see eye to eye on this and call it a night.
Cheers, then.
Sounds good to me.
Let even thread-only watchers know that Chik Fil A has won a moral victory (and anyhow, the first one says nothing about Smith).
When I was younger I was always amazed that old people spoke their minds so bluntly; over the years I’ve learned that they are the only ones who don’t have to worry with people messing with their livelihoods when they are honest. I can’t wait until I retire and can call a spade a spade; PC is killing this country.
The public school system did the same thing to me, but for standing up for conservative views. And, only 1 good friend tried to help me fight them. I know LOTS of school board members, superintendents and school board members who should be on food stamps and will if I ever get the chance to put them there.
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