Fired Chick Fil-A Bully Goes From Unemployed to Unemployable
Joe Escalante ·
August 4, 2012 at 7:50am
I defy anyone to watch this guy's apology. It can't be done. Maybe Gutfeld could do it, as a fetish.
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Sep '10
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I lasted til 3:48, but, man, there are still 4 minutes.
Apr '11
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I could only make it to 0:00.
May '10
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I watched the whole thing. I think his apology is sincere, although I don't agree with his position regarding the evil Chick-Fil-A. I feel sorry for him and his family, and I hope he will be able to care for them soon.
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I lasted through 3:20. So far, Kylez is the tough guy here. Who among you is willing to take the challenge?
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Kervinlee. You are clearly inhuman.
Jun '12
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He's an adjunct prof - Eller school of Management, U-Arizona
Can anyone imagine surviving a semester of listening to this dude?
Jun '10
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You are a good man. I too hope he'll be able to care for his family.
That said, I watched the original "bully-boy" video that got him in trouble. It was appallingly crude, and he was so proud of it he posted it.
No doubt he's sorry, but then who isn't sorry when they do something stupid, and then learn the consequences of their action.
He was the CFO--a member of the senior management team--of a fairly significant corporation. How then could he not know that he was a representative of his company even in a Chick-Fil-A drive-thru?
For several years I was an officer in a large company--I knew that everything I did reflected on my employer. Had I done something like this there is no doubt my employer would have fired me immediately.
So let's not forget that what we do has consequences.
Had his employer ignored it, I doubt we'd be hearing his apology.
Universal truth: we reap what we sow.
Edited on August 4, 2012 at 8:38amRe: Fired Chick Fil-A Bully Goes From Unemployed to Unemployable
I stopped the moment he started to apologize to "Rachel." It may be my own cramped & bitter view of humanity, but something tells me that if his video had resulted in a promotion, a million LIKES on his YouTube channel and an offer of a regular gig on MSNBC, he might not have led with the mea culpa.
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Okay, I watched a bit more. Interesting: he was frustrated! So he was emotional. You can understand that, right? Given all the evil. Emotions are real and hence deserving of respect. We must understand the space he was in. And now he's remorseful, which is also an emotion, and since it's the most recent emotion, it trumps the previous emotions.
He's feeling EMOTIONS NOW. Ergo he's being HONEST, and isn't that what matters?
When, exactly, did we decide to swap out the standards of backboned man-up adulthood with these adolescent templates? Bogart wept.
Jul '10
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How did someone emotionally unstable and immature get to be a CFO?
Mar '11
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SallyVee: He's an adjunct prof - Eller school of Management, U-Arizona
Can anyone imagine surviving a semester of listening to this dude? · 55 minutes ago
Yet another example of what we're doing to our kids by sending them to college. We're literally paying guys like this to teach our kids that their parents are knuckle-dragging haters that want to keep gay people down just like their grandparents kept black people down.
Oct '10
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I only made it to 3:32. He made his bed ... deserves no sympathy for that. But at least he is laying in it. It takes some guts to throw yourself back out into video land and he certainly has done the right thing by apologizing. Of course, he probably just hopes he can become employable again. We should continue to ruthlessly exploit his original video for it shows his side as the cringe-inducing, smug and self-righteous bullies that they are. If the roles were reversed, the Left would follow him around for the next ten years and harass any company foolish enough to hire him. They'd hold sit-ins in his classroom if he taught again. Is there any reason the Right shouldn't do the same? No. The problem is, who can be bothered with doing that? It takes a certain peevishness that few on the Right can muster, myself included. That may be to our credit, but it's why the Left has become implacable.
Mar '11
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I don't know why you guys thought it was so tough to get through. It was one of the great non-apology apologies of all time.
Transcribed:
The First Rule of Exiting Holes is, as we all know, when you are in one, stop digging! I'm lost here -- would he be very proud to be gay, very proud to be in the closet, very proud to be not gay, very ... confused?
His former company had no choice but to let him go. He would have been, going forward, a self-propelled discrimination case who would have detonated faster than a lawyer can say "hostile work environment."
Jul '10
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I made it to 2:07, after he talked about going back to the store the next day to talk to her again. He went back to the store the next day? Looking for her???
Yeah, real shocking that Rachel wouldn't talk with him. He's lucky she didn't call the police.
Aug '11
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Hmmm... I wonder if Dan Savage is hiring. He could be his hateful sidekick.
Edited on August 4, 2012 at 9:52amDec '11
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I only watched the first part. I being a man and a weasel at times know a "I'm sorry but you made me do it." apology. Clearly the long line in the drive thru made him do it. He felt the hate. He saw the hate. And he fought the hate with his statement. The big question I have to ask myself is like the old Wendy's commercial is "Where's the beef/hate?" Why do people jump to the conclusion that an appreciation day is about hate? Are the left in some zero sum purgatory that any kind words to someone means hatred toward another? I wish him well and hope some day he can see the love on our side and deal with the beam in his own eye.
Oct '11
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4:26 seconds here.
''I was so excited about supporting the gay community that I did it, and made Rachel collateral damage'' was what cut it to me, I couldn't take it anymore from there.
My Father one day told me that ''if you are too excited about something, stop and verify if you are not being a fool''.
Edited on August 4, 2012 at 3:11pmAug '11
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I watched the whole video and I would accept his apology. I am not a religious person, but I feel a lot of compassion for this fellow, largely because he has analysed his behaviour and is prepared to correct himself. He sees that activism can be extreme and is dangerous because it takes humanity out of the idealism that drives activist behaviour. What good is idealism if it can't better humanity?
I think too many people become deranged through scary MSM articles, through activist organizations that exploit adherents, and through peer pressure. In a crowd, it is easy to chant or even howl, but up close and personal, it is important to be respectful of the people around you.
I would accept this guy's apology and possibly make a new friend.
Aug '10
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Ha! "The Adventures of Savage-Man & Waterboy!"
Jul '10
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Gay or not, this is one of the sorriest examples of a happy guy. Maybe the ChickfilA president thinks he's helping gays with his supporting of various groups. Why do gays as a group come across as so bitter, and mean? Why do people of faith come across as happy and satisfied, but gays never do?
Feb '12
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I made it all the way through...and all I can say is "wow".