Posted on 08/02/2012 3:24:21 PM PDT by Iron Munro
Adam Smith, former CFO and treasurer of medical supplies manufacturer Vante, riled people up today when he put up a video of himself bullying a Chick-fil-A drive-thru employee in Tucson on YouTube.
Smith unsympathetically berates the worker in the video, which was initially titled Reduce $s to Chick-Fil-As Hate Groups. It has since been taken down (though other have uploaded it too).
Im a nice guy, by the way totally heterosexual," he says to the worker. "Not a gay in me, I just cant stand the hate.
Smith has now been fired from his job at Vante. Here's the press release from Vante announcing that Smith is "no longer an employee of our company," effective immediately:
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
According to my grandmother, Liberace was just flamboyant, not gay. Yeah, like I really bought that line. :=)
The 1st applies to government action, not private sector...
Al Sharpton’s co-host.
Sweeeeet!!!!!!
Goes good with morning coffee!
Many execs have morals & ethics clauses in their contracts. They can be fired for unethical behaviors arising from any time. I once had a contract that required I dress appropriately at all times, never to be seen as a bum or unshaven. That sucked. I’ll never sign one of those again.
Parsing...notice he was restricting his declaration to the present.
LOL! Quite Clintonesque.
Matt Damon, Michael Douglas Play Lovers in Liberace HBO Movie
Since he enjoys putting himself on camera so much, maybe Adam Smith can get a bit role as one of Liberace's spurned lovers.
First Amendment doesn’t apply in this situation, not many realize that. See post 33.
So there is justice in this world. Excellent.
Except in this case, he chose to advertise the act and had his employer and title attached. He's an officer of the company, he should have known better. The company did the right thing.
“Not a gay in me(at this moment, but probably later), I just cant stand the hate.
Can’t “stand the hate.”
The only hate exhibited has been that directed against Chick-Fil-A and its owners and employees.
I called the University of Arizona and they cannot discuss whether he still has a job. The woman with whom I spoke agreed that the girl showed total class.
15 minutes of fame has consequences.
He "doth protest too much, methinks."
A man at the CFO level takes the time to wait in a long line at a crowded fast food operation to scam a free water and harangue a front line employee about an issue (homosexualism) with which he claims to have no interest or involvement.
IMHO he's closet queer and can't admit it - even to himself.
I think he is also a college professor. Scary to think that we spend thousands to expose our children to idiots like this.
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