His first protest ever cost him his career, reputation and sense of self; Adam Smith went from being a CFO to being on food stamps after protesting at a Chick-fil-A (now a mindfulness coach in Costa Rica)

CBC ^ | April, 6, 2018 | N/A

[bray]

Sounds like Mike Lindell and most of Trump’s supporters.

[unixfox]

"I have come to a place where I don't need other people's approval anymore."

Good luck with all that.

[Jan_Sobieski]

🎻

[Ge0ffrey]

I don’t believe this story.

[grobdriver]

began confronting an employee about LGBT rights

When you lie down with queers, you get... well, buggered.

[CatOwner]

Why are you posting a nearly five year old article?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Some sexes are more equal than other sexes. /Animal House (er, Farm)
Can’t be a practicing Christian in public.
Can’t run your business as a practicing Christian.

But notice that this homosexual advocate WENT to the restaurant, DELIBERATELY protested and confronted the wait staff and employees ...

[Boomer]

The short version of this story is “get woke, go broke”.

[albie]

“Smith regretted how he expressed his views to the Chick-fil-A employee and proposed making a public apology.”

…wait, what? I thought he screamed at the employee because he’s principled and was taught as a child blah blah? So on the same day he wants to issue an apology? Typical lib. “Principled and virtuous” until it has a negative effect on him and his income.

[Gaffer]

A spin down into social and professional oblivion brought on by mindless protest and idiotic prank intended to harm another business. How could he possibly think that all of this could be one-sided? Now living in Costa Rica and teaching ‘mindfulness’ course? What a whack job.

[Red Badger]

FAFO..........................

[dfwgator]

And yet, what what has Chik Fil-A done since?

[rigelkentaurus]

Being an amoral left wing communist should have consequences. If he repented and turned to Christ, then I would welcome him back to society. But, instead, he is just into more new-age nonsense. Since he is in Costa Rico, hopefully but doubtful, he turned in his US citizenship.

[iontheball]

The guy and his story are nuts. Sounds like a liberal whose scam backfired and now he’s whining about it.

[Ikeon]

How did he get enough money to move and live in costa Rica?

and now costa Rica has its own chapter of " karens united" and hes the president?

[CFW]

I don’t recall his actions being a “protest”. I recall him being horribly verbally abusive to a young employee who was just doing her job at a Chick-fil-A drive-thru window. Is he still proud of his actions?

[Rlsau1]

Private enterprise and extreme political activism usually don’t mix well.

[caddie]

Married with kids and vehemently opposed to antigay company. Helloooo.

This was years ago though. Nowadays no way would he be fired. Promoted more likely, to chief DIE officer. That's how fast things have deteriorated since then.

[Gen.Blather]

In every company I worked for if I’d suddenly become extremely well known, I’d have been fired if it was negative or encouraged to leave if it was positive. For the negative, a company wants to avoid headlines like, “Acme employee uses racial slurs.” For the positive, say I saved a girl from drowning...it’s because the boss wants to be the one elevated above all else. If there’s any hint of hero worship, he doesn’t want it to be for someone below him. One of my coworkers was an early winner of the Florida Lottery. He wanted to continue working but was encouraged to leave. Apparently, the lobby had filled up with newspaper and TV people. It wasn’t about the company or any of the top brass who considered themselves a breed apart from us common folk. (They had their own covered parking, private key-operated elevator and a restaurant style dining room with waitstaff wearing tuxes.)