Posted on 08/02/2012 3:24:21 PM PDT by Iron Munro
Adam Smith, former CFO and treasurer of medical supplies manufacturer Vante, riled people up today when he put up a video of himself bullying a Chick-fil-A drive-thru employee in Tucson on YouTube.
Smith unsympathetically berates the worker in the video, which was initially titled ”Reduce $’s to Chick-Fil-A’s Hate Groups.” It has since been taken down (though other have uploaded it too).
”I’m a nice guy, by the way … totally heterosexual," he says to the worker. "Not a gay in me, I just can’t stand the hate.”
Smith has now been fired from his job at Vante. Here's the press release from Vante announcing that Smith is "no longer an employee of our company," effective immediately:
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Dollars and sense-- He was not just freely voicing opinion, but was above all abusive to someone of subordinate status. It's repugnant and unforgivable. Because he was outed as a CFO of the operation-- a highly responsible figure who reflected very negatively on his employer, not terminating him would have been a form of endorsement and irresponsibility at a public level. Vante would have suffered by standing behind this POS.
It's a practical calculation by the co and not an especially difficult one. A medical device mfgr is held to a pretty high std in terms of ethics and this would have doomed them in what is a highly competitive and scrutinized industry. Integrity and reputation is everything. They did the right thing.
I’d fire you for not firing that manipulating bully on the spot.
How can you live with yourself? For working at a fast food restaurant and then he states how good he feels about himself for ordering a water and hassling a defenseless girl. Liberalism is an evil cult.
Pray for America
That resume has a lot of gratuitous self promotion before he got to Vante. At IBM he was basically a manager in finance with afew people reporting to him. Vante much the same except a much smaller company.
He will probably be made a full, tenured professor at the university.
They can't decide if they want to promote him to Keeper Of The Football Team Shower Room or Head of Gerbal Breeding and Distribution.
If you go Chick-a-Filing tomorrow, make sure you take your cell phone camera.
The `artists’ planning on breaches of the peace/public disturbances and other offenses against public order/decency (and possibly malicious mischief) probably don’t think we Neanderthals are capable of documenting their antics/crimes.
The left has been getting away with this juvenile nonsense/acting-out for far too long. Gig `em!
Private businesses should be able to fire anybody for any reason. What we have now is leading to tyranny.
Posting the video shows lack of common sense...
How did this guy even get Peter Principled into a responsible position with a profit-making firm???"
Probably by "sucking up and kicking down". It's more prevalent, IMHO, in American business than you think.
That’s the libertarian position and something to be said for it.
This guy is on his own time and he actually allowed the lady to thwart him and make him look like a jerk.
My concern is that if firing people for free speech acts on their own time becomes allowed then Christians will be next.
Ironically the guy is homophobic — denies being gay! lol
Bullies always pick on a weaker person. Notice he berated a teenage girl rather than ask to speak to a manager. What a jerk.
Our daughter was a retail manager at one time. Too bad he didn’t say this to somebody like her. The Irish American Princess would have given him an earful. ;-)
Um, like the reputation of the company, maybe?
“I would fire the jackass...for being stupid.”
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From the press release it sounds like that is what the company did.
That guy is a real piece of work. He really put the girl on the spot, was rude, antagonistic, and mean.
She did a good job representing her company, maintaining her cool and thanking him for “patronizing” (pun intended!) Chick-fil-A. I hope she gets some recognition from the bosses for this.
I see at the very bottom of his resume that he has 4 sons. Is this the kind of behavior that he wants to model for his children?
Anyone who cannot grasp the company's reasoning and responsibility after reading your post isn't trying.
Dollars and sense-- He was not just freely voicing opinion, but was above all abusive to someone of subordinate status. It's repugnant and unforgivable. Because he was outed as a CFO of the operation-- a highly responsible figure who reflected very negatively on his employer, not terminating him would have been a form of endorsement and irresponsibility at a public level. Vante would have suffered by standing behind this POS.
It's a practical calculation by the co and not an especially difficult one. A medical device mfgr is held to a pretty high std in terms of ethics and this would have doomed them in what is a highly competitive and scrutinized industry. Integrity and reputation is everything. They did the right thing.
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