Oh gawd 90 percent of the SDMBers here are soooo fucked 
Though I do agree the price he paid for being a dick does seem a bit much. Then again, what a dick he was…to perhaps the most helpless class in America…the minimum wage worker. Heck, homeless people have it easier as they can just stab you, rob you, beat you up, or tell you to fuck off if you piss them off.
This girl was doing her job, not advocating some side of the issue, that’s why he’s a douchebag. If someone is espousing a ridiculous position than yes they deserve ridicule. If someone is giving you a free water you ordered, then no, fuck off.
Attention all SDMBers. I hereby offer you free virtual internet water with any “controversial” position I take here on this message board.
Don’t feel too bad for the young lady. She cute and she handled the ambush really well. Because of that, we haven’t seen the end of her.
Was he an asshole? Full of himself? Oh yeah.
Did he deserve the fate that he’s now contending with (including but not limited to: being fired from a presumably good job, enduring threats to his life, bringing turmoil to his kids’ and wife’s lives, . . . )? No.
I actually feel kinda sorry for him. I mean, in his own bumptious way, he seems to have been trying to do a good thing.
Nah, he was just joining the pile-on, to borrow some internet message board vernacular.
The correct punishment for being a public asshole is scorn and derision. Not firing, not persecution of any sort, simply pointing and laughing ought to do nicely.
You are aware, I trust, that if you play the “liberal hypocrisy!” card, you have to send Bricker a dollar.
It could be firing if you’re in a high enough position in a company and you could possibly fuck up public relations. That goes with the territory of making the big bucks.
And you’ll receive a free water in return.
You know, I’m just not seeing that.
Maybe if he was talking to the CEO, or maybe the Head of Public Relations…or maybe even an investor…but the cashier?
Anyway. It’s one thing to be a complete douche bag. I’ve done that. It’s another to film yourself doing it and putting it on youtube. After it went viral, the company* had* to get rid of him.
Okay…I see what’s going on now…CFO of a medical device company…Chik Fil A…fast food…bad health…pissing off of medical device customers…all makes sense now…
That’s medical devices! You perv.
I agree with you, but if CFA is some evil corporation, why are their agents given quarter? Would you be nice to the low level member of the Ku Klux Klan when he was painting your house?
I understand there is all kinds of straw in that, but if a person agrees with the boycott of CFA, isn’t that person potentially costing this girl her job? I would rather be chewed out than fired.
Again, I understand the distinction, but in other instances we don’t accept “I’m just doing my job” as an excuse. The response is, “You have a shitty job.” And other actions like a boycott would affect this girl much more.
I wonder how those boycotts are working out for the protesters. Hasn’t CFA been doing record sales the last couple days? And how many of the people who are “boycotting” them never really ate there in the first place?
I think there are a few different issues here.
First, is Chick-Fil-A a wicked corporation for using its resources to oppose gay marriage?
Second, assuming that the answer to the first question is “yes,” is it reasonable to berate low level employees over it?
Third, was this individual successful/effective in what he did?
With respect to the first question, I think the answer is “no,” but I think we need to assume for the sake of argument that the answer is “yes.” Certainly Adam Smith believed that this is the answer.
On the second question, I think the answer is also “yes.” If somebody is serving as an Agent of Evil, they deserve to catch some shit for it, even if they are being paid minimum wage.
Last, Adam Smith was totally ineffective – the window girl kept her cool and his attempts to bait her came off looking silly and childish. But that’s not a reason to morally judge him. The same thing could have and would have happened if he’d had an encounter with the Chick-Fil-A head of Public Relations.
I suspect people are confusing the second question with the third question. I also suspect there’s also some prejudice at work. A pretty 20-year-old girl working a minimum wage job automatically evokes peoples’ sympathy. If the encounter had been with a paunchy 35-year-old male assistant store manager (who still makes very little money and is basically a small cog in a big machine) I doubt the video would have gotten this kind of attention.
I agree. Besides, it’s not like he threatened her or threw something at her. He didn’t even curse at her.
I think the real problems here are that (1) his attempt to shame her came off looking completely childish and amateurish; and (2) the situation of a 40-year-old man berating a 20-year-old girl who had been minding her own business automatically evokes peoples’ sympathies.
My God, he could not have picked a worse target. He was probably hoping for some mouthy smartass who would tell him to fuck off and shout scriptures at him about how he was going to hell. Instead he got her. That girl seemed so sweet, with such a “please don’t hurt me” expression when he started to go off. She was so steadfastly polite and non-confrontational. He should have ended the video by running over a puppy, just to make it perfect.
Well, yes.
I mean really; who’d say no to that question? Especially if it’s chocolate chip. Mmmm.
I’m boycotting cookies. I hear they recently came out in favour of Voter ID.