Posted on 08/21/2004 7:29:19 PM PDT by crusty codger
A man who heckled US President George Bush at a political rally has been fired from his job at an advertising and design company.
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This is exactly what the DNC is looking for!
Well, depend on the nature of their clients. They are free to fire and hire at will.
Ordinarily I'd be against this, but if the man knowingly offended clients, it's harder to argue he should be kept on.
The story has been widely discussed on other threads. The man was a guest of a client of his employer, apparently.
Looks like he was fired because of a client. Its business.
Don't jump to conclusions. It could very well be that heckling Bush was not the only reason he was fired. Far more likely, the guy has a motor-mouth and talks back to his superiors and customers.
Work and politics don't mix. The guy shouldn't have offended his clients.........
The story is not clear. If he got access to the event thanks to tickets provided by a client, then he most certainly did do something out of line. Suppose a client provides tickets to a sporting event to my company and I use them. Then I end up getting thrown out for being drunk and obnoxious, with everyone seeing what happened, well, you better believe that the client is going to be mad and demanding that I be fired.
A client provided tickets to the event. The heckler embarrassed the firm. Not very pc but he'll no doubt file a law suit. Trial lawyers like Kerry and Edwards love this stuff.
Graphic designer Glen Hiller, of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia said he was told that he had embarrassed and offended a client who provided tickets to the event.
“I was told that my actions reflected badly on the company and that a client was upset,” Mr Hiller said.
I would have fired him.
The client provided the tickets right? And the employee insulted the client, where's the conflict?
If I understand the situation---his former company was supplied tickets by a client. the employee accepted the tickets in his capicity as an employee with that company. He called attention to himself in a negative way putting the company in a bad light with the client. And they shouldn't fire him? Had he obtained tickets on his own, maybe firing him would be wrong, but that isn't what happened.
So companies should be able to fire people according to their political believes?
And if any one of us heckled JF'nK, wou;d YOUR employer keep you on?
Or would YOU get a pink slip, too?
Sounds like this guy expressed himself to the President.The client expressed himself to the agency. And the agency expressed itself to the employee.
Everyone is free!
It is obvious that this guy does not know how to comport hismelf in the presence of an important client. He probably got fired for that instead of the heckling.
Graphic designer Glen Hiller, of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia said he was told that he had embarrassed and offended a client who provided tickets to the event.
“I was told that my actions reflected badly on the company and that a client was upset,” Mr Hiller said
To me it appears like the employer wants to keep it's clients especially when you note that Mr. Hiller used bad judgement and he knows it, too.
No, they should be fired for misuse of a client gift. The politics isn't an issue. As I posted above, if a client gave tickets to a sporting event and an employee misbehaved in a very public and inappropriate way, that employee would have a problem.
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