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Woman Fired For Flipping Off Donald Trump’s Motorcade
Huffpost ^ | 11/6/17 | Jennifer Bendry

Posted on 11/06/2017 3:50:04 AM PST by DoodleDawg

WASHINGTON ― You may have seen this photo of President Donald Trump’s motorcade winding down a wooded road last week as a woman on a bicycle appeared to give it the bird.

The picture, snapped by a White House photographer traveling with the president as he left his golf course in Sterling, Va., went viral almost immediately. News outlets picked up the story when it appeared in a White House pool report. Late-night talk show hosts told jokes about the encounter and people on social media began hailing the unidentified woman as a “she-ro,” using the hashtag #Her2020.

The bicyclist’s name is Juli Briskman and her employer ― government contractor Akima LLC ― wasn’t so happy about the photo. In fact, Akima fired her over it.

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: akima; julibriskman; loudouncounty; rudedems; socialmedia; trump; virginia; yourefired
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To: DoughtyOne

Certainly not too bright of a “Marketing Specialist” or whatever.


41 posted on 11/06/2017 4:14:28 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: DoodleDawg

Trashy mom.


42 posted on 11/06/2017 4:14:30 AM PST by boycott
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To: Future Snake Eater
Moral of the story: have a personal FB page your employer doesn't know about, and, if you must have one for your job, use a completely separate "professional" FB page for that

Or do what I do and don't put your employer on your Facebook site. And also follow my words to live by: think twice before speaking, three times before Tweeting, and four times before posting. Always.

43 posted on 11/06/2017 4:15:28 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.


44 posted on 11/06/2017 4:16:00 AM PST by griswold3
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To: cba123
I didn’t think that photo was enough to cost her the job.

What happened was she used the photo, on social media. Twitter and Facebook. From the linked article.

THAT is apparently what got her fired.

Exactly.

45 posted on 11/06/2017 4:16:57 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

Never put anything online that you would not want published in Breitbart or the New York Times.


46 posted on 11/06/2017 4:17:25 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: cba123

“I didn’t think that photo was enough to cost her the job.”

If she worked for K-Mart, maybe. I believe she works for a government contractor, though, so she gets her paycheck, ultimately, from government. Displays like that could threaten her employer’s future contracts, profits, etc.

My husband worked for Federal contractors his entire career. Doing this would’ve impacted his job.


47 posted on 11/06/2017 4:17:25 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (A person's greatest strength is his greatest weakness.)
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To: DoodleDawg
She posted this on her Facebook site which, apparently, also identified her employer and embarrassed them.

Nuff said.

48 posted on 11/06/2017 4:18:28 AM PST by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: marktwain

Delayed proper responses can sometimes be excessive. You quietly put up with being poked in the chest a bunch of times, then finally respond — usually harsher than a first response. I’ll wager she’s been a tolerated thorn in that company’s side for a while. We all know the type.


49 posted on 11/06/2017 4:19:06 AM PST by polymuser (Enough is enough.)
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To: stockpirate

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/like-president-trumps-white-house-photographer

...As the weeks passed, media reports began to suggest that Trump was actually avoiding Shealah Craighead, his new photographer, as many pictures posted to social media by the White House were taken by other members of staff. And after day 50 of the presidency, when Craighead released her first real set of photos, photography websites declared her a rigid, boring photographer, unable or willing to take candid or unguarded photos of the president.

But critics really had little to assess, with Craighead and her staff releasing far fewer photos to the White House Flickr account or other social media than her predecessor, Pete Souza, who had photographed two administrations and been granted extraordinary access to Barack Obama. (Since leaving his position, Souza had kept posting photos of the former president, often in an attempt to show Obama in a better light than Trump)...

... In a second conversation, she also answered criticisms about her lack of access. This conversation has been edited and condensed slightly for length and clarity.


50 posted on 11/06/2017 4:19:59 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: DoodleDawg

...she planned to look for a new job with an advocacy group that she believes in, like Planned Parenthood or PETA...

She can get a job with Antifa making black masks and billy clubs.


51 posted on 11/06/2017 4:21:44 AM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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Oops - been looking at Indeed

[Juli Briskman and her employer ― government contractor Akima LLC]

This LinkedIn profile looks like a match:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/julibriskman

Current Akima, LLC
52 posted on 11/06/2017 4:22:07 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: TXBlair

Had I been walking down a wooded road and a motorcade who I assumed was Obama’s drove by......at a minimum a bird would have flew out of my hand.


53 posted on 11/06/2017 4:23:49 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Didn’t someone get a love letter from the IRS for flipping off Slick Willy some years back?


54 posted on 11/06/2017 4:25:06 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: DoodleDawg
Briskman, a 50-year-old mother of two, said she was stunned that someone had taken a picture of her giving Trump the middle finger.

Stunned?

In a world where there is a camera in every hand, every vehicle, every public space and business and on every street corner?

She wasn't too stunned to stop her from grabbing the photo and using it on her Facebook site.


55 posted on 11/06/2017 4:28:17 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (Libtards wish anarchy and death for others, but exempt themselves.)
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Previous employment....interesting:

Former Community Liaison Officer at United States Embassy - Riga, Latvia
September 2007 to May 2009

56 posted on 11/06/2017 4:28:39 AM PST by 2nd amendment mama (Self Defense is a Basic Human Right!)
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To: DoodleDawg

How does her employer know that ass ?


57 posted on 11/06/2017 4:29:52 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Fightin Whitey

No kidding. My first thought was ...

How is she going to get that bicycle seat out???


58 posted on 11/06/2017 4:29:54 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Enough of the mindless rants of the obtuse.)
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To: a fool in paradise
"The press pool photographer who sold the photo is still employed, peculiar enough.

I guess his employer hasn’t been embarrassed enough by this stunt.

You sound (post) like a democRAT...why are you on FreeRepublic?!?

59 posted on 11/06/2017 4:30:08 AM PST by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: DoodleDawg

Feel good story of the day


60 posted on 11/06/2017 4:32:35 AM PST by MountainWalker
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