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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Mar '11
Re: Fired Chick Fil-A Bully Goes From Unemployed to Unemployable
When you put yourself in front of the world like that, you are embarassing everyone who associates with you. This guy deserved his firing as his employer would suffer a tarnished rep for keeping him on.
Speaking as an employer, I'd have fired him too.
Jun '12
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Nail. Head.
It takes, oh, what, 30 seconds? "What I did was wrong, I sincerely apologize, and I hope everyone can find it in my heart to forgive me."
I suspect -- like Macsen I haven't watched and don't intend to -- from the comments here that what he is doing is explaining why he did it instead of sincerely apologizing.
As a former lay preacher (meaning I haven't been ordained), I can tell you that when people are spending a lot of time explaining, they're not really sorry, they're still trying to convince you they're right. On the other hand, if people are truly sorry, they know that explanation is superfluous, all they want is to apologize and move past their error.
To put it a shorter way: true repentance does not require an explanation.
Dec '10
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Sure the guy's still employable. I don't know how long his next job will last, though. How many times will the pimply faced assistant manager say, "stop telling the customers you were the chief financial officer of a major corporation before asking if they want fries with that" before he loses that job too?
Jul '12
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I made it through the whole video. I have a high pain threshhold. That video was a 7 plus minute illustration of how incoherent and untethered to reality the average Leftist is (I refuse to call them Liberal, as they are not). Consider it a sociological experiment in endurance.
Feb '10
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Listen, I'm on the socially conservative side of this argument, but I think it's unfortunately not just the Left that needs to chill out. He's made a semi-apology which I would accept, if he could stop ranting about Chick-fil-A.
But the larger issue is that we also have bullies on our side, and that's really unfortunate. Who called and left threatening messages on his company's voice mail? Who is continually insulting him and making him sound almost sub-human? It's people supposedly on our side. I heard some very angry people call into our local radio show about this yesterday.
I understand the anger, but let's not become what he is. He does damage to his side of the argument; we do damage to ours when we overreact.
Edited on August 4, 2012 at 5:28pmDec '10
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midnightgolfer
I have to say I don't feel sorry that this guy lost his position, and I don't believe, after seeing these videos, that his company wasn't already considering it, before hand. · 3 hours ago
He's a bully, and he probably got where he is by exploiting that.
If I were the HR manager at Vante, I'd have been doing the Happy Dance from the minute that video hit YouTube.
Or maybe even the Funky Chicken.
May '10
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Made it to "Rachel"
This whole thing has to be guerilla marketing for something, no? I just don't get the apologizing to a single individual in a YouTube.
I also don't get how someone who seems and sounds like a teenager gets to be a CFO and adjunct professor?
He also seems a little gay to be--not that there's anything wrong with that.
May '10
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Made it about thirty seconds. More than hateful, this guy is self-absorbed. He has earth confused with some other planet which gives a cr*p about his emotions.
Aug '10
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I made it all the way through, and all I can say is that this is a perfect demonstration of IFS -- a phrase that I won't translate but you can search for penny arcade and internet syndrome to get the NSFW translation.
The fact of the matter is that this man thought that he was anonymous when he made his initial post, and that led him to behave in a socially inappropriate and bullying manner. The moment he discovered he was no longer anonymous -- and why he believed a visual recording of himself would remain anonymous is beyond baffling -- and suffered the repercussions of his actions, he "had" to release an apology.
He is claiming that he and his family have been threatened, that he has lost his job, and that he has been mocked. All may be true, but all can occur with public actions.
He made his bed, he should face the consequences.
His apology is a non-apology, it is a reaction to consequences.
I feel sympathy for this man's family, but he needs to just let go of his "someone on the internet is wrong" style obsessions.
Jul '11
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I didn't read all the comments, so apologies if I repeat some sentiments.
I watched the whole thing. What I find interesting is that he is remorseful for upsetting Rachel, but not for his actions. He sees hate in Chic-Fil-A and the organizations they support, but none in him. That's the real irony.
In my experience. there is a lot of intolerance and hate in the left. There is and always has and always will be on both sides, however the left has yet to acknowledge theirs. They go about as if they are the tolerant party and the non-haters; but clearly they are not.
As for the moron in question, he is irrelevant. His life is the hell he lives in - as apparent by his obvious unhappiness and lack of joy in it.
May '10
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Barkha Herman: I watched the whole thing. What I find interesting is that he is remorseful for upsetting Rachel, but not for his actions. He sees hate in Chic-Fil-A and the organizations they support, but none in him. That's the real irony.
In my experience. there is a lot of intolerance and hate in the left. There is and always has and always will be on both sides, however the left has yet to acknowledge theirs. They go about as if they are the tolerant party and the non-haters; but clearly they are not.
As for the moron in question, he is irrelevant. His life is the hell he lives in - as apparent by his obvious unhappiness and lack of joy in it. · 5 minutes ago
Barkha, I agree with you insightful analysis of Adam (I Hate Chick-fil-a) Smith's actions and apology.
Edited on August 4, 2012 at 6:15pmJun '12
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Busy System Admin: Listen, I'm on the socially conservative side of this argument, but I think it's unfortunately not just the Left that needs to chill out. He's made a semi-apology which I would accept, if he could stop ranting about Chick-fil-A. · 49 minutes ago
Edited 48 minutes ago
That's my point. He can't stop ranting about it.
This man is not repentant about his actions; he's trying to explain them so that we'll agree with them and won't think he was a boorish jerk.
If he offers a sincere apology, I'll accept it. This is not one.
Nov '10
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I could have watched the whole thing. Quite entertaining, actually.
Aug '10
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This guy really likes to hear himself talk.
Jan '11
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I watched the whole thing; it wasn't that bad. But two things do not pass the sniff test:
1) if he was being sincere in saying that he was so very sorry for the way he treated her during the encounter, he would not have posted that video. So, his explanation that the good [promoting social justice] from posting that video would outweigh the bad ["collateral damage"], then he truly is not a decent person who deserves to have his apology accepted. Decent people don't plan to do these sorts of things.
2) Chick-fil-a is in no position whatsoever to deny basic rights to anyone; that's just a plain nuttier-than-squirrel-excrement statement.
Smith planned to say what he was going to say one way or another but, knowing the Left, like I think that I do, I believe that Smith was more angered that Rachel did not seem to know why this clown was ordering just a cup of free water; and that just tweaked his red nose a little bit too much.
Edited on August 4, 2012 at 10:08pmJan '11
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Reading the in-fighting from DailyKos is instructive to just how out-of-touch some people are.
Edited on August 4, 2012 at 10:12pmMay '10
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Busy System Admin:
But the larger issue is that we also have bullies on our side, and that's really unfortunate. Who called and left threatening messages on his company's voice mail? Who is continually insulting him and making him sound almost sub-human? It's people supposedly on our side. I heard some very angry people call into our local radio show about this yesterday.
I understand the anger, but let's not become what he is. He does damage to his side of the argument; we do damage to ours when we overreact. ·
I so agree. I was surprised and disappointed to hear him tell about the 300 angry, threatening voicemail messages.
The Left specializes in that kind of vitriolic bullying. I thought our side was better than that.
May '12
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Crocodile tears.
He made his bed, but finds it uncomfortable to sleep in with all those eyes looking at him. This seems to me like damage control, plain and simple. The sincerity feels forced and he avoids being specific on details of the altercation. He wants the focus to be more on the "I'm sorry" part and less on the "This is what I did, this is why it was wrong."
Then again, I only made it to 3:00 before I became too disgusted to continue. Better a private apology than this publicity crap. Perhaps the sincerity got better at the end, and he piece by piece identified his wrongdoing. I'll never know.
Oct '10
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Am I the only one who's reminded of Corky St. Clair from "Waiting for Guffman"?
Apr '11
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Busy System Admin: Listen, I'm on the socially conservative side of this argument, but I think it's unfortunately not just the Left that needs to chill out.....
But the larger issue is that we also have bullies on our side, and that's really unfortunate. Who called and left threatening messages on his company's voice mail? .... It's people supposedly on our side. I heard some very angry people call into our local radio show about this yesterday.
I understand the anger, but let's not become what he is. He does damage to his side of the argument; we do damage to ours when we overreact. ·
I think he was a wonderful thing for us. Chick Fil A is right up there with the HHS mandate and "didn't build that", and he's a big part of Chicken.
There's a lot of people though, for whom his part wouldn't seem like such a big deal if he wasn't fired, so the firing itself has a positive impact.
Also, he provided a great case study, discouraging future abuse as the campaign warms up. Our bullies, distasteful though they are, do good work.