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Medical exec ... fired over video of him berating Chick-fil-A staff still unemployed (shortened)
Daily Mail ^ | 12:48 EST, 26 March 2015 | Updated: 05:24 EST, 27 March 2015 | By Myriah Towner and James Nye

Posted on 03/31/2015 5:35:52 PM PDT by Utilizer

An ex-CFO and Chick-fil-A protestor who lost his job after posting a video rant against one of the chain's employees has since lost his home and lives on food stamps.

Adam Mark Smith, 37, who worked for an Arizona-based medical device manufacturer, was shamed after the 2012 YouTube video was posted showing him berating employee Rachel Elizabeth.

The video which expressed his disdain over the firm's anti-gay marriage stance went viral, and left him unemployed and forced to lose his home.

Nearly three years later, the married father of four is still searching for a job and his family previously had to give away possessions before he was hired and fired again, according to ABC.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Food; Humor
KEYWORDS: adamsmith; bullying; chickfila; unemployed
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To: Utilizer
I don't feel sorry for him. He was a bully and put in the Internet him insulting a young girl and did it without her permission, a violation of her privacy. I realize jobs are hard to find and many have been search for years. Still, with his background that he hasn't be able to get a job make me wonder if there is more to the story.

His case is entirely different from the case of a CEO (Mozilla?) fired for donating money to groups pro traditional marriage. That CEO did a good job, was said to be fair, didn't bully anybody. In the first case the man was fired for what he did, in the second case for what he believed.

21 posted on 03/31/2015 5:51:33 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Boycott Mexico)
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To: Arm_Bears

Yes. We appear to be holding at eight for now. :)


22 posted on 03/31/2015 6:00:11 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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To: bolobaby

Last I read, she was still working there and a couple of websites had sprung up to accept donations for her to go on a vacation in the future.


23 posted on 03/31/2015 6:01:46 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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To: Paladin2

I believe none of the franchise owners has a CFO position open that pays his level of salary (200k/yr) and benefits (1M in stock options).

Somehow, I rather doubt that he would do at all well starting at the lowest position and working his way up, since along the way he would have to show his competence at the cash register and drive-thru window before he could seek a managerial position.


24 posted on 03/31/2015 6:05:10 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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To: All

Crikey! Forgot to put up the full title!

Here we go:

“Medical exec who was fired three years ago over video of him berating Chick-fil-A staff is still unemployed and on food stamps”

Cheers, all.


25 posted on 03/31/2015 6:10:39 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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To: rdcbn

Well, she was somewhat attractive, but a ten? Hardly...


26 posted on 03/31/2015 6:12:34 PM PDT by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a wstatist...)
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To: Utilizer

He ought to seek employment with a ‘gay rights’ advocacy group with whom he’s obviously so sympatico, not only with regard to ‘gay rights’ but also in bullying.


27 posted on 03/31/2015 6:14:13 PM PDT by EDINVA (S)
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To: Utilizer

When broke, a job is a job. CfA seems like a place to offer him rehabilitation, should he be so inclined...


28 posted on 03/31/2015 6:14:58 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Utilizer

No one wants to hire an idiot


29 posted on 03/31/2015 6:16:41 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Utilizer
Hokey Smokeys!

First I've heard of it!

I'm going to go look for MOAR articles about this...

30 posted on 03/31/2015 6:17:33 PM PDT by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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To: Utilizer

What the jerk did was so gay.


31 posted on 03/31/2015 6:18:04 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("I want to be America's first, historical, male first lady." - Slick Willie)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

I would tend to agree. What little information I have read about him shows not only that he truly does not understand why his actions were deplorable but the only thing he states he ‘regrets’ is his tone of voice to the cashier-clerk.

No surprise that he seems to think he can get a similar-paying job to the one he lost, and that he seems to be incapable of understanding that he needs to set his sights lower.

Significantly lower.


32 posted on 03/31/2015 6:20:59 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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To: SkyDancer

Hi Janey luv! Yes, with only a few exceptions pretty much all the comments at the various sites reporting this agree that he was being a total A$$ and completely deserves what has happened as a result of his actions on that day.


33 posted on 03/31/2015 6:23:58 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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To: Utilizer

Right - and he’s going around moaning and groaning about his sorry fate ...BOTOH - he was entitled to his free speech ...


34 posted on 03/31/2015 6:25:24 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: max americana

Quite welcome.


35 posted on 03/31/2015 6:29:00 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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To: Morpheus2009

The problem is that with so many good, qualified people looking for the same job, who would knowingly take upon an unbalanced maniac as this guy has clearly demonstrated that he is? Word gets around and CFO communities are smaller than others. His name is mud, because no one wants to take on the liability of this guys reputation. I’ll say my community is much larger and everyone in our vicinity has left a footprint in the industry. We can immediately find someone who knows what how where and when someone worked in a previous location. He’s in for a long hard ride.


36 posted on 03/31/2015 6:31:29 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Jane Austen
Still, with his background that he hasn't be able to get a job make me wonder if there is more to the story.

Based upon his comments, the dipstick still does not know what a donger he was being to the sheila with the free water. Still thinks he can land a high-paying job like he (somehow) came on to before.

37 posted on 03/31/2015 6:40:05 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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To: mozarky2

True. More of a six, I reckoned. Looked better for her interview on the telly, however


38 posted on 03/31/2015 6:41:40 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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To: Utilizer
Thanks for posting.

This guy is among the lowest of all living creatures. I would never, ever hire him to any kind of job whatsoever. Taking him on as an employee - even as someone who cleans the toilets - would be incredibly risky and would expose my company to litigation on a large scale.

The young lady he harassed at the drive-through, well she deserves an enormous amount of credit for the dignified way she handled him. Most of us would have kicked him in the head about 50 times.

Check out this video in which this pompous and arrogant jerk decided to show the world how despicable he is.

39 posted on 03/31/2015 6:49:22 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: EDINVA

Hmmm. ACORN, SEIU, and the ACLU spring to mind.


40 posted on 03/31/2015 6:49:36 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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