I don't think Adam Smith deserved to be fired (the Chic Fil A drive through guy)

[apples and oranges]

He made a poor choice, but I've seen worse encounters. By firing him, the hateful RW has won once again!

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, it's this guy:

[Drale]

1. He was a dick and personally I think the firing was justified

if your on the board of that company, you do not want your company represented by a man like that.

[Mojorabbit]

24. I agree. nt

[slackmaster]

2. That young woman did not deserve to be verbally abused

Smith is an asshat. I can't believe anyone on this forum would defend him.

[immoderate]

3. Smith is a total jerk.

The firing is up to his boss. The young woman at the window did nothing to deserve the abuse.

--imm

[Lebam in LA]

4. I disagree

He was a jerk and had no reason to take it out on an employee.

[freshwest]

5. A coward of a CFO, claiming to be against hate but won't confront someone at his level, huh?

This CFO, certainly knew the way things are run, and could have gone to the corporate headquarters. No, he goes after the hapless server who is ordered to show him respect and smile no matter what he spews.

I believe the guy is a right winger, doing a number on the opposition. I'll bet the main viewers of this guy's video are using it to smear gays and their supporters.

The power dynamic here is obvious, well-off guy in car with camera abuses his gift of free water, gloats about it and insults the help and says he's against hate and is a nice guy. Really?

Yeah, and Dennis O'Keefe and Andrew Breitbart were nice guys.

[Broderick]

23. He made it his closing point

to certify he was not gay, as he put it not even a bit of gay in him to paraphrase and that he was totally heterosexual. I wonder why he had to caveat his punishment of a low level worker with that?? Why was he so worried she might think he was, or was that for his youtube buddies?? You could be on to something in my humble opinion.

[Enrique]

31. maybe he was hitting on her

i'm not kidding.

[Broderick]

35. Gee

If that was the case he has a superbly stupid way of doing it.

In your scenario he thought:

Let's hit on this girl, video tape her getting belittled by him for her desire to earn a paycheck in a low level position. Post it to youtube and brag about it, for all the world to see. Typical 1% RW behavior to me. But if that is how a CFO making 250000 a year picks up 8.00 an hour young ladies; then I guess I am out of touch with what you think and society thinks.

[HappyMe]

6. He so deserved to be fired.

He's a complete asshole. She doesn't have a say in any way where the ceo sends money.

[hlthe2b]

7. If this is indicative of how he thinks those in the "service industry" deserve to be treated....

He is no better than Romney or any of the RW elitists. Abusing her because of the actions of the owner of the chain of restaurants for which she works shows an incredible lack of judgement.

[Broderick]

25. Certainly not manly enough to get out of the safety of his own vehicle

to video tape a young lady just trying to earn her 7 or 8 bucks an hour. Sitting in his expensive vehicle making his 250000 a year. Seems more like a 1% right winger to me trying to make the left look bad.

[cherokeeprogressive]

8. Fired. Good. I hope his UI claim is denied. n/t

[zappaman]

9. What was his point?

To act like an asshole to a teenage girl with a part time job?
Serves him right.

[WilliamPitt]

10. .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021067810

[Nuclear Unicorn]

11. "Good afternoon, young lady...

"I happen to be the CFO of a corporation here in town. How would you like a genuine job opportunity that pays better than minimum wage with a company that values everyone equally? Here's the number to our HR office."

[freshwest]

18. Yeah, that video would have been infinitely better!

[Broderick]

26. Absolutely a wonderful

approach to things. What he did was for self gratification from his 1%'er vehicle and job thinking how much better he was than some minimum wage worker trying to make a buck.

[twizzler]

37. Bravo

[IndyJones]

43. That would have been more appropriate. Being rude to the young lady just made him look like

a jerk.

[snooper2]

12. Maybe he was already a shitty employee and this put it over the top?

But this is what the Intertubes is for---


Speculate away!

[cali]

13. He deserves to be fired for this exhibition of poor judgment alone

not to mention his disgusting bullying. fuckwad.

[cordelia]

14. He very much deserved being fired.

Disgraceful.

[Cooley Hurd]

15. First I've seen of this video. Re: Adam Smith? Heart's in the right place...

...but head is firmly up his ass. Plus, he went out of his way to say he was heterosexual? That reminds me of the old Sir Charles Chaplin quote:

(When asked if he were a Jew) "I am not a Jew. I'm afraid I do not have that honor."

[cali]

19. his heart is in the wrong place. berating that girl demonstrates that he's a mean little asshole.

[Cooley Hurd]

21. Missing the point again, dear?

IF his intent was to protest the hateful actions of the Chik-Fil-A corporation, then that is noble. His methods, however, suck ass.

(beat you to the punch of the dismissive "dear" comment! )

[cali]

28. no honeybuns, not at all missing the point.

His actions demonstrate that he's a mean self-important asshole- and those actions include his posting that revolting vid, sweetums.

you could never beat me to any punch, dahlin'.

[Broderick]

27. That caveat bothered me

Why was he so concerned she might think he was, or that his youtube buddies he thought would love the stunt might think he was?

[cthulu2016]

16. the hateful RW won the second he opened his mouth

[Major Nikon]

17. Even if that's true, it doesn't make him any less of a dickbag

And when a dickbag gets fired, well I can't muster up much sympathy for him regardless of how I feel about the firing.

[magical thyme]

20. he's an officer of the company

That's more than just being an employee there, and officers are held to a much stricter standard of behavior.

His "poor choice" showed incredibly bad judgement. Being fired does not mean the company agrees with Chik-fil-A. It does mean that there are appropriate ways of disagreeing with Chik, and inappropriate ways.

If he was in any way rude to the employee, who is only doing what she must to support herself, than it was totally wrong.

And nobody how his demeanor toward her, videotaping it and posting it reflects poorly on his own company.

[Cooley Hurd]

22. Getting free water BUT being kind to the person serving him would've made me applaud...

[Broderick]

29. I wonder how he treats the low level

employees in his own former firm. Maybe he has a history of this type of elitist behavior and this made their decision simple.

[cali]

30. She behaved with grace. Asshole Smith doesn't even know the meaning of the word.

[Whisp]

32. what an attention seeking asshole

asking how she could work there?

because she has bills to pay? stupid or what question.

[Enrique]

33. people are using the word "bullying" and "berating"

which are terrible things. People are associating this with truly awful behavior toward workers which is reprehensible.

But this guy doesn't do anything like that. He says "I know" and "i totally understand", and "see ya later guys" at the end. Insensitive imo when he judges her for working there, but everything else was directed at the company and not her.

I hope someone finds Rachel and asks her what she thinks.

[cali]

39. "I don't know how you live with yourself". That's fucking berating someone.

I'm totally glad the fuck got fired.

[Lizzie Poppet]

41. Agreed.

The guy got off light, losing his posh executive job. What he deserved was to get his ass kicked.

[doohnibor]

34. When unemployment is as high as it is.....

You have to have some special and unique talents to be both a dick and employed.

[twizzler]

36. When you reach that level in management

you are usually required to sign a code of conduct contract that lays out what is expected of you on or off the job, one of the specifics is don't do anything that will bring embarrassment to you or your employer, which he clearly did.

Also Smith probably earns about $250,000 a year and probably has a company vehicle that he was probably in when he idiotically berated that young lady who is just trying to get by on minimum wage.

So, yeah, he deserved to be terminated.

[cecilfirefox]

38. This guy was a douchebag. Total douchebag. nt

[cherokeeprogressive]

40. Hi! My name's Adam. Welcome to Walmart!

Methinks his CFO career juuust hit the skids.

Who's gonna hire this guy now? Good thinkin' Adam my boyyyyy.

[hughee99]

42. I'll bet this guy wasn't fired because of the RW

this guy was fired because the company didn't want people (investors, employees, customers) thinking this company's finances are being handled buy a guy who has displayed such obviously poor judgment. I don't think it took much more than showing this video to his boss(es) to get them to decide to let him go.

[Nye Bevan]

44. An asshole got fired. This is not a "victory" for the RW.

And I would bet he was just as much a dick at his job. They are probably glad to be rid of him.