# FHRITP and co-workers **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 21, 2015, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhritp-and-co-workers/720462 "2015-05-21T01:01:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhritp-and-co-workers/720462/21 "2015-05-21T15:38:29Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > If we fired everybody who laughed at things that jackasses say, there’d be a lot of unemployed people in the world. Like, most of them. I fully agree, until the jackasses are stupid enough to laugh at, or be, jackasses on camera for a news station in a large city. I assume that there could be co-workers in my cubicle farm capable of that but: I’ve often told friends that I’m in a room full of very smart people; and if or when they do stuff like that I don’t know. If, however, I saw one of them doing something like that on the evening news on CBC, I would be happy to see him gone and I know that the woman in the cubicle next to mine would as well. Btw, I’ve always thought that stupidity should be in the Criminal Code:) ---
**Author:** ![LionelHutz405](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lionelhutz405/32/536_2.png) [@LionelHutz405](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LionelHutz405)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhritp-and-co-workers/720462/22 "2015-05-21T16:09:45Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I didn’t say it on live TV. In terms of an employer judging you and deciding if you are the type of person they want to employ, what`s the difference? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhritp-and-co-workers/720462/23 "2015-05-21T16:26:39Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I didn’t say it on live TV. > [@Bricker](#): > > You said it on a publicly-readable message board. > [@LionelHutz405](#): > > In terms of an employer judging you and deciding if you are the type of person they want to employ, what`s the difference? Indeed. Let’s imagine an Internet sleuth figures out, from various context clues, your IRL identity, and then doxxes you after you said something he didn’t agree with. Now you’re in the same position, at least generally. Still OK with it? ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhritp-and-co-workers/720462/24 "2015-05-21T18:05:31Z")
You are never free from the consequences of what you say or do - I am fine with this idiot being fired. I have personally participated in disciplinary process for people that have done similar things in public or on social media - no one owes you a job or a livelihood and if you are going to be stupid enough to do something large and in public like that, then you deserve everything you get. As someone in uniform, the potential is always there for someone to take what I said or did as representational of my employer as a whole, so I try not to act like an asshat (especially in public). ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhritp-and-co-workers/720462/25 "2015-05-21T19:23:17Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Indeed. Let’s imagine an Internet sleuth figures out, from various context clues, your IRL identity, and then doxxes you after you said something he didn’t agree with. Now you’re in the same position, at least generally. Still OK with it? I know I wouldn’t be. I wouldn’t like it if someone installed a spy cam in my toilet bowl and then posted clips of my defecation online, either. Somehow I still know not to post my own butthole selfies to Facebook. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhritp-and-co-workers/720462/26 "2015-05-22T05:50:36Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Somehow I still know not to post my own butthole selfies to Facebook. Seriously. That’s what Instagram’s for. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhritp-and-co-workers/720462/27 "2015-05-22T06:23:07Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > [My thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=756876) on the same topic. > > The guy didn’t just laugh at it. He also said “fucking” to her a couple of times on live TV. “I don’t fucking care. You’re lucky there isn’t a fucking vibrator in your ear.” > > Fuck him and his job. I wouldn’t work with an asshole like that. Is there any context for the ‘vibrator’ quip? Because I’m guessing that’s what got him fired. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhritp-and-co-workers/720462/28 "2015-05-22T06:50:22Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Is there any context for the ‘vibrator’ quip? Because I’m guessing that’s what got him fired. No idea. He did mention something about something that happened in England. The more I watch this, the more I just cannot believe what some people are like in public. How immature are you? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhritp-and-co-workers/720462/29 "2015-05-22T07:10:56Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > You said it on a publicly-readable message board. Which is one reason why you should not post on message boards under your real name. Not that posting something your employer disagrees with and being a complete asshole are the same thing. BTW, thanks to the update, I now know I would not want to work with him and now understand his firing. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhritp-and-co-workers/720462/30 "2015-05-22T11:24:59Z")
> [@velomont](#): > > an Ontario soccer fan who participated in that and was identified lost his $107,000 job with Ontario hydro Speculation exists that he was doxxed by a dyslexic agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhritp-and-co-workers/720462/31 "2015-05-22T11:43:57Z")
I was undecided about the matter, having missed the indecent and meme entirely. However having watched the video(no sound at work) I support the firing because the dude just looks like a douche. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhritp-and-co-workers/720462/32 "2015-05-22T11:51:32Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Yes, he is in fact. Hydro One is owned by the government of Ontario. His wages are paid for by my tax dollars and electricity charges. Fuck him. Being an employee of a government-owned business does not make him a public figure. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhritp-and-co-workers/720462/33 "2015-05-22T13:29:54Z")
Being a government employee makes his behavior a matter of public concern, though. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhritp-and-co-workers/720462/34 "2015-05-22T13:40:21Z")
Being a big enough public douchebag will, in fact, get you fired from almost any job, come done to it. You choose the action, you choose the consequences, if you’re 27yrs old and haven’t learned this yet you kinda deserve a life lesson, in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhritp-and-co-workers/720462/35 "2015-05-22T17:13:43Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > If we fired everybody who laughed at things that jackasses say, there’d be a lot of unemployed people in the world. Like, most of them. Bwahahaha! Oh darn. Fired. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhritp-and-co-workers/720462.md?page=1)