What in the world is wrong with people? Some how saying “fuck her right in the pussy” (FHRITP) has become some kind of live broadcast meme that people, mostly guys for obvious reasons, have been saying in live news broadcasts.
Well, some assholes in Toronto lost their jobs and have been banned from all Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment games (Leafs, Raptors, Toronto FC soccer) for one year.
Serves them right. Assholes. Here’s a reporter trying to stick up for herself from these misogynistic dick heads.
I’m in Philadelphia today. At 7pm as my anchor and reporter started to go live a fellow started screaming stuff about Obama right behind my reporter and anchor, including obscenities.
I jumped up, planted my hands behind my back (so I would not accidentally touch him) and got in his face as he tried to ‘interview’ me with his cell phone about Obama and the liberal media agenda. I am sure I will end up on the internet somewhere. But I did distract him until a Philadelphia police officer sent him away for disorderly conduct.
I’ve been kind of back and forth on whether he should have lost his job or not. Obviously he’s an asshole for what he said live on air, but he didn’t actually say the phrase in the clip, just said he thought it was hilarious. And there was nothing to indicate who his employer was or that he was representing them in public in any way so did they really have the right to punish him for behaviour on his own time. They do have a clause in their employment contract that seems to give them the right to fire him but because retribution was so swift and harsh it feels like an opportunity to “fight ignorance” has been lost and he’s just going to blame the reporter for causing him to lose his job and he’ll never “get” what an asshole he was.
It seems like now he’ll be unemployable for the foreseeable future but as hubby says, some other story will push this to the next page pretty quickly.
I don’t know that somebody that far gone will ever “get” it.
Sometimes you have to accept that some arseholes are lost causes, and the most you can do is demonstrate to others that their brand of arseholery is not acceptable.
He worked for a public utility, knew he was on camera and on tape. Went on to display an unbelievable disregard for civility and complete tone deafness in regards to sexual harassment.
How is FHRITP anything but; verbal attack, puposely disruptive/offensive, a rape threat and sexual harassment? If you’re a grown man who cannot see this then why should anyone allow you to work anywhere near their female employees? Why would any employer trust you in any circumstance to demonstrate maturity or good decision making?
FHRITP is not a rape threat. The female reporter was clearly not feeling threatened as she went to talk with them rather than leaving or calling the police.
The guy who got fired didn’t do the shouting. He just expressed his opinion that it was no big deal and just a joke. I don’t agree, but he got fired for expressing his opinion on his own time .
Unless he was a contract worker for hydro one, then I expect that his union will have something to say about unjust termination. Usually all the companies that I worked for, HR had a process that one would have to go through to justify termination, so far from what I have read, he was not working at the time , wearing no clothing that would identify himself as a HY1 employee, or made statements to that effect.
The telling statement for me, in the article I had read was that the individual made the sunshine list last year, making over 100k.
I heard an interview today with a local (Montreal) male reporter for a French TV station, who says that he gets both men and women shouting the vulgar phrase into his microphone. Though I imagine it’s still female reporters who get the worst of it.
I have in the past been strongly on the side of “off the clock and not linked to the company by uniform or something similar = not the company’s business”… but I must admit I’m having difficulty summoning any pity for someone who suffers a negative consequence when they publicly espouse those views. On what planet is that socially acceptable???
If I was a coworker to this guy and saw his behaviour and commentary on tv, things would be different on Monday in the office, so I guess in that way his out of work conduct will affect the company.
The guy is never going to be a posterboy for the oppressed working class, but its unacceptable that Hydro one fired him without due process, and for an incident that happened off the clock. In my opinion, that sets a precedent for other companies to look to.
Haul his ass into work on monday , place him on admin leave paid, determine that yes it was him and no he was not on any psychotropics. Tell him he is concidered a toxic prescence in the work place and he is done, and pay out severance.
If he feels that is not enough, tell him to sue for what he thinks is fair, not some bogus moral code violation, that was put into place for social media embarrassment.
How do you know that didn’t happen though?
Maybe they confirmed it was him, don’t care if he was under the influence or not, decided that since it was now public knowledge he would be a toxic presence in the workplace and then decided to fire him.
