# Hannity calls hotline; girl gets fired for taking his call **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 26, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-hotline-girl-gets-fired-for-taking-his-call/672274 "2013-10-26T01:55:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-hotline-girl-gets-fired-for-taking-his-call/672274/21 "2013-10-26T23:10:30Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Absolute ass? You betcha. He’s going to pay her a year’s salary out of his own pocket and help her find another job. Real ass, there. I’ll believe it when I see the cancelled checks. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-hotline-girl-gets-fired-for-taking-his-call/672274/22 "2013-10-26T23:53:37Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Absolute ass? You betcha. He’s going to pay her a year’s salary out of his own pocket and help her find another job. Real ass, there. > > Why aren’t you complaining about the asses that fired her in the first place? These folks answered it for me. > [@elucidator](#): > > He promised her a year’s salary? How about _his_ yearly salary? He could gather hers out of the change in his sofa. And is he going to deliver that right after he fulfills his promise to be waterboarded to prove its humane? > [@elucidator](#): > > Worse than that, they victimized the lowest level functionary they could find, and when she was fired, offered to make a public spectacle of her as a demonstration of Sean Hannity’s humanity and compassion. Dick cheese has more humanity and compassion than Sean Hannity even knows exists. > [@Miller](#): > > I’ll believe it when I see the cancelled checks. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-hotline-girl-gets-fired-for-taking-his-call/672274/23 "2013-10-31T22:51:53Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > Goodness griefus. Is he going to pay her health insurance premiums too? > > I’d say it’s pretty hard to believe they fired her over this, but I’ve worked in too many call centers to be surprised by it. They probably nailed her for speaking “for the company” in a public realm without authorization from their PR/marketing department. I know from years of experience that most reps do not have the power to say no or hang up when asked stupid, leading, and/or entrapping questions. More or less, yes. Because under gift tax rules that money is straight up tax free, no payroll taxes or anything on it. $25,000 in her checking account, no withholding and no requirement to pay any taxes on it. When you compare that to what she would have made over the year minus payroll taxes (probably not minus income taxes, at $25k w/two children she probably is not a net income tax payer), then she will actually have a good enough margin over what her actual take home pay would have been that it will certainly cover her health premiums. Premiums that will be subsidized in part by Obamacare, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-hotline-girl-gets-fired-for-taking-his-call/672274/24 "2013-10-31T23:16:40Z")
> [@Grave Filler](#): > > I’ll believe it when I see the cancelled checks. You won’t believe it if she’s interviewed, and confirms she got the money? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-hotline-girl-gets-fired-for-taking-his-call/672274/25 "2013-10-31T23:25:17Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > You won’t believe it if she’s interviewed, and confirms she got the money? Yeah, right. Hannity probably just paid her off so she’d go on TV and say she got paid off. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-hotline-girl-gets-fired-for-taking-his-call/672274/26 "2013-10-31T23:29:09Z")
> [@Grave Filler](#): > > Yeah, right. Hannity probably just paid her off so she’d go on TV and say she got paid off. Then he would have to pay her off again to come on to prove she was paid off. And again and again. It could turn into a full time gig. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-hotline-girl-gets-fired-for-taking-his-call/672274/27 "2013-11-01T21:11:46Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > This is standard call center stuff, especially government call center. If I take a call from the media when I’m working the switchboard at my job, and I answer any question from an acknowledged media source that isn’t “What’s the number for the department’s Press Officer?”, I’m subject to discipline, up to and including termination. I CANNOT speak for the department or the state. Period. I’m not authorized. The second she knew she was on the line with Hannity’s producer, she should have given him the number for the ACA press officer and hung up. That’s the standard. And I speak as a union member (AFSCME). This isn’t an abuse, this is the standard, and for good reason. This was her first job in a call center and she said during her training no one ever said, “Don’t talk to the media.” But of course because you know something means everyone else in the world is supposed to know it too. Also it doesn’t really matter because she was a plant and Hannity paid her to infiltrate the company just so he could pull this little stunt. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-hotline-girl-gets-fired-for-taking-his-call/672274/28 "2013-11-01T23:15:45Z")
Hannity probably set up Obamacare and got it passed just so he could complain about it too 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cornopean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cornopean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornopean)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-hotline-girl-gets-fired-for-taking-his-call/672274/29 "2013-11-02T00:01:57Z")
> [@Evil\_Economist](#): > > I agree with your argument that this country needs strong worker’s rights laws to prevent this sort of thing happening in the future. Ha! you got me there. I detest worker’s rights laws. In Michigan, we just became a right to works state! Three cheers! btw…I would suggest that the best thing you can do for workers is to be a right to work state. worker’s rights laws do NOT help workers. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-hotline-girl-gets-fired-for-taking-his-call/672274/30 "2013-11-02T01:12:02Z")
nt ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-hotline-girl-gets-fired-for-taking-his-call/672274/31 "2013-11-02T02:30:50Z")
> [@cornopean](#): > > Ha! you got me there. I detest worker’s rights laws. In Michigan, we just became a right to works state! Three cheers! btw…I would suggest that the best thing you can do for workers is to be a right to work state. worker’s rights laws do NOT help workers. My lord, you _are_ a bizarre little troll, aren’t you. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-hotline-girl-gets-fired-for-taking-his-call/672274/32 "2013-11-02T02:33:32Z")
> [@cornopean](#): > > Ha! you got me there. I detest worker’s rights laws. In Michigan, we just became a right to works state! Three cheers! btw…I would suggest that the best thing you can do for workers is to be a right to work state. worker’s rights laws do NOT help workers. Mind expanding on this a bit? Like giving examples? ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-hotline-girl-gets-fired-for-taking-his-call/672274/33 "2013-11-02T05:19:31Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Mind expanding on this a bit? Like giving examples? _Please_ don’t ask him to explain. Because he probably WILL. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-hotline-girl-gets-fired-for-taking-his-call/672274/34 "2013-11-02T05:33:28Z")
**Runner** ’s using reverse pathology. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-hotline-girl-gets-fired-for-taking-his-call/672274/35 "2013-11-02T10:38:36Z")
He told Erline at the beginning of the call that she was on the radio, on the Sean Hannity show, and that she had to say it was OK (a statement- not a question). She said it was OK. What’s strange is I heard this on the radio when it happened when I was picking up the kids from school. The person who answered the phone said she was not sure if it was OK to record the call (twice, I think). Then the kids came and I turned down the volume. He must have called back and got this Erline person. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hannity-calls-hotline-girl-gets-fired-for-taking-his-call/672274/36 "2013-11-02T15:19:31Z")
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