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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.

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

Obama care is dying, why would you waste money on ads for it. Encouraging people to buy a turkey they can’t even eat for Thanksgiving.


161 posted on 11/06/2017 9:08:36 AM PST by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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To: morphing libertarian
I hope she wins her lawsuit. Freedom is more important than whom you flip off and employers have too many tentacles in employees private lives. Making freedom a second class value is done too often amongst conservatives.

She won't.

162 posted on 11/06/2017 9:13:02 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: JayGalt

I kinda meant the golfing thing.


163 posted on 11/06/2017 9:47:54 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
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To: Madame Dufarge
Nobody should be losing their job(s) over this "social" media content crap. It's like we can't have nice things anymore. How much more does an employer really need to know than they did 50 years ago? If I walk out onto my balcony with a beer at sunrise on a Sunday morning with my robe open and nobody else or anyone who cares is there, would it still raise a red flag at Human Resources? I'm convinced that if they thought there was a way to know about it, some HR management types would be all over it.
164 posted on 11/06/2017 10:53:21 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: DoodleDawg

[[She said this colleague was reprimanded for calling someone “a fucking Libtard asshole” on Facebook, but was allowed to delete the post and keep his job.“How is that any less ‘obscene’ than me flipping off the president?” she asked. “How is that fair?”]]

At her age this obnoxious LIBTARD should know by now that life isn’t always fair. In this case though there was justice.


165 posted on 11/06/2017 10:57:42 AM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: morphing libertarian

[[I hope she wins her lawsuit. Freedom is more important than whom you flip off and employers have too many tentacles in employees private lives. Making freedom a second class value is done too often amongst conservatives.]]

There is no way she would win . Her post could have lost the company she worked for their contract . She also took the job knowing that she could not post obnoxious stuff on Facebook .


166 posted on 11/06/2017 11:00:33 AM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: DoodleDawg

This was also posted on our local station’s FB pages. So I mentioned several jobs she could find.
1 Get a real job flipping burgers.
2. Hey GI, 5 dollar short time, ten dollar all night! (deleted)
3. A job in back alleys and dark doorways.(Deleted)
4. Hey GI, you buy me Didlink?(deleted)
Mod there are so thin skinned.
Since the girl was peddling a** when she flipped off the President, I didn’t think the news station would mind. They did.


167 posted on 11/06/2017 12:40:14 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: morphing libertarian

Freedom of speech does not include freedom from the consequences of one’s speech. She is reaping her consequence of her act of free speech.


168 posted on 11/06/2017 2:03:26 PM PST by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: MarvinStinson
thx...
169 posted on 11/06/2017 3:18:25 PM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Tudorfly

Not entirely true. It is a freedom to be protected by the government. With no harm to the employer her right to do that is protected from “official consequences.”


170 posted on 11/06/2017 3:42:34 PM PST by morphing libertarian (A proud member of the Ruthie Bader Afternoon Nap Club)
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To: morphing libertarian

If she is employed within an “at will” contract, the employer has the right to fire her for any reason at all. Actions. Consequences.


171 posted on 11/07/2017 1:00:46 PM PST by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: Tudorfly

we shall see how at will effects off the job exercise of constitutional rights. I hope she has a good attorney. People here are ravaneous when someone attacks TRump.and they want person punished. Get over it.


172 posted on 11/07/2017 6:24:40 PM PST by morphing libertarian (A proud member of the Ruthie Bader Afternoon Nap Club)
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To: morphing libertarian

Now you are becoming personal, so I suggest you re-evaluate your perspective. One may exercise one’s constitutional rights. The constitution gives us the right to give the one fingered salute to whomever we decide should receive it.

The constitution does not, though, protect the salute giver from the consequences of the one fingered salute action. If, in doing so, the giver of the salute offends her employer or causes her employer to decide her action is detrimental to the employer’s reputation, then the employer is within the employer’s constitutional rights to fire the salute giver and relegate her to the status of formerly employed.

It amazes me that some folks, apparently including you, fail to understand that performing an overtly offensive or obscene action may result in an unintended consequence: like getting fired or simply punched in the snout.

This has nothing to do with President Trump and everything to do with plain ole civility. Action. Consequence. End of story. Don’t want the consequence, then simply don’t perform the action.

I am an employer. And I have been employed. If I offended my employer, the employer has the right to let me go. I have never been employed for life. If the actions of my employee cast a detrimental light to my business, then one of the solutions available to me is to fire the employee.

The salute giver at the basis of this thread is a fool. She lacks discretion and showed little civility. She has paid the price of her action. Without a change of attitude, she would not be employable in my business...or any business with which I would choose to engage as a customer or client. She sowed. She reaped. And she brought it on herself, all by herself. So be it.


173 posted on 11/08/2017 12:09:19 PM PST by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: Tudorfly

There is no right for an employer to fire for off duty behavior, especially for being offended contracts with morals clauses and such in the exception

Much of what I say is personal. So man or woman up

You have to ask yourself. WhT kind of country we would be if people like u had their way. Some conservatives never quite understand freedom


174 posted on 11/08/2017 2:06:14 PM PST by morphing libertarian (A proud member of the Ruthie Bader Afternoon Nap Club)
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To: morphing libertarian
"Some conservatives never quite understand freedom"

True. Some never consider that the employer ought to be free too.

175 posted on 11/08/2017 2:10:39 PM PST by mlo
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To: mlo

So you’re proposing removal of all. RegulTions on employers

I think we’re done


176 posted on 11/08/2017 2:15:45 PM PST by morphing libertarian (A proud member of the Ruthie Bader Afternoon Nap Club)
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To: morphing libertarian

Yeah, since you’re proposing slavery for all employers, I guess we are.


177 posted on 11/08/2017 2:30:41 PM PST by mlo
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To: morphing libertarian

We’d have a better, Biblically based, constitutionally grounded country.


178 posted on 11/09/2017 9:09:52 AM PST by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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