Posted on 08/21/2004 7:29:19 PM PDT by crusty codger
A man who heckled US President George Bush at a political rally has been fired from his job at an advertising and design company.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.scotsman.com ...
How does it apply?
Wat you want to wear at a ball game has no relationship to whether you have 1st amendment "rights" vis a vis your employer (you don't).
I tried to watch Seinfeld and never laughed once.
I called you a name?
Sounds like a setup by the demoncRATS support group. The guy will have a job with a demoncRAT group like the Sierra Club or Moveon.org or some such group.
Well, aren't you the smart one.
I worked for a design firm that did a lot of museum exhibits (I'm also a graphic designer, probably the only conservative one in the country for what I've seen!) and my former boss was an old 60's Berkeley leftist dude. When we got the National Museum of the Marine Corps as a client I had to witness him transparently suck up to our wonderful military and it was rather disgusting to behold because the man is anti-military to his core. BUT--he knew who his client was. If any one of us had gone to a Marines-sponsored event, or anything they invited us to, and shouted stuff that was insulting to the Corps, you bet we would've been canned, and fast! Even if the boss agreed with it, it's the client that counts in business.
BTW...Anybody know any conservative-leaning design firms out there??? Any that at least aren't totally full of liberals???? In Georgia?
I remember!
I called you a name?
(You sir are an Elitist)
Yes, elitist would be name calling, You still havn't enlightened us as to how the first ammendment applies here.
Man, its a tough crowd tonight. Those of us without a humor deficiency thought of this episode too in reading the article.
If he harmed his companies business by his political free speech, he should be fired. He can speak all he wants as an unemployed person.
I think that the Democrat's have been taken over by the Socialist's/Communist's. But when one person stands up and speaks his mind he shouldn't be fired from his job!
"Customers keep jobs available, while employees are overhead."
Yes, you're right on the button, but in all due respect, it is because of my employees (love 'em all)that I'm able to make a very healthy profit. I don't mind the overhead.
Being a member of a Union!
This had nothing to do with political beliefs! It was his boorish behavior while using tickets provided by a client of his company.
I think that your attempt to defy my purpose for posting this article and my responses to it are an attempt to villainy my service in Vietnam. (/sarcasm)
(FYI....Seinfeld on DVD is scheduled for November '04 release)
Absitivly!! Though as an employer you have to have the balance sheet in the back of your mind & if/when any employee, no matter how near & dear to you, becomes a liability, it's your responsibility to let them go.
come and play ping!
He was apparently disruptive enough to be escorted out of the event amid chants from the incited crowd. I can understand how the client would become upset.
As far as the the now-unemployed graphic designer's tripe about no venue for the "regular guy" to "ask a question", I sincerely doubt regular unemployed guy had any intention of "asking" anything. He successfully exercised his right to free speech; he did not land in jail for his disruptive comments.
The mistake he made here is twofold:
1. failing to realize "free speech" does not equate to "protected speech".
2. failing to realize the customer is always right.
Sorry crusty, I can't seem to dredge up any moral outrage for this guy. Boorish behavior is not an entitlement.
The company did the right thing. This clown got the ticket to the event through his job. He embarrassed his company by heckling Bush. End of story.
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