Bank of America fires employee for this facebook post

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.myajc.com/news/news/racist-facebook-post-claims-another-victim-bank-of/nrYwL/



The very Facebook that Lindgren loathed reacted in kind, blasting her for her comments and flooding Bank of America with calls, emails and social media posts.

“Christine McMullen Lindgren wrote a horrifically racist, anti-Black comment on Facebook and she proudly listed you, Bank of America, as her employer,” one person posted on Facebook. “Does she represent the racist values you strive for or the ones you’ve promised to abandon?”


“Does Christine McMullen Lindgren really work for you? If she is one of your employees, are you going to take action against her?” someone else wrote. “Failure to do so sends a very loud message to your current African-American customers. I’m sure possible new customers will have a second thought before opening an account with Bank of America if this is not addressed properly.”

“I hope this company’s values do not align with Christine’s,” wrote another woman, offering to send the bank screenshots. “Let this be a lesson to those who choose to be nasty on the Internet and believe their actions have no repercussion. Please, let me and others who have reported her know that this situation will be taken care of. Thank you.”

By 1 p.m. Thursday, Bank of America had let them know.

Andy Aldridge, a senior vice president and communications manager for the bank, confirmed that Lindgren had worked at the bank and that the comments were “reprehensible and unacceptable.”

[saltpoint]

1. Wow. Absolutely vile.

The Trump campaign probably contacted her immediately after termination to offer her a job.

[enid602]

3. chair

I heard she's now chair of the English Department at Trump U.

[saltpoint]

4. Trump U. LOL. Does Trump U have

an athletic mascot or symbol?

'Sociopaths' might work.

[mythology]

43. I believe the statue in this clip would do

https://m.

[saltpoint]

69. I could definitely see Trump

contending for such an award.

Possibly in the Lifetime Achievement category.

[ecstatic]

6. lol! nt

[Major Nikon]

2. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Truly, this.

[NightWatcher]

27. I'm going to borrow this response. It's so apropos.

[PatrickforO]

5. Well, her post going viral will ruin her life. Sadly,

she will become unemployable and will experience the very poverty she claims it so easy to lift oneself out of. She will understand the humiliation of shopping with a food stamp card, and have to watch deferred maintenance build up on her house and car while she prays nothing she cannot afford happens to either. She'll end up getting a shitty job where she's supervised by a coldhearted jerk and will live in fear of getting fired, because that may mean losing her home.

Horrible way to learn the lesson of empathy.

[passiveporcupine]

7. If this is true,

I hope she doesn't have children. And if she does, I hope she hasn't passed on her racism to therm.

[Major Nikon]

11. I doubt she will learn it even then

She will always feel she is superior regardless of her situation. It's really the only thing she has to establish self worth, and that's the saddest part of all.

[Dustlawyer]

28. Who said she will learn? She will probably blame blacks for her being fired.

She is a victim of the propaganda that has been spewed to displace the blame of our crappy economy onto minorities and immigrants. TPTB want us to believe others are the cause of our problems, not the fact that the wealthy pay no taxes and suck up all of our tax dollars in government contracts awarded because they bought our Representatives.

[snooper2]

39. based on her writing she should have been there already, she obviously isn't very bright

[rpannier]

8. I just shake my head

I would love to know what people are thinking as they post this stuff on facebook and twit
I would like to think there's something that would tell them this is a dumb thing to do
Do they re-read their post?
It's not like a bar, where they blurt something dumb out in a drunken moment

[GummyBearz]

67. I just had a horrible thought

I leave my facebook password remembered so I just click login. What if someone were to login and write a nasty thing like that as a joke, or to intentionally get me fired, without me even knowing it? I have had a (now ex) girlfriend go through my facebook private messages before when I was out of the room. I removed all my passwords, but the inconvenience was annoying

[Chakab]

9. Another heartwarming tale from "post-racial America."

[Logical]

59. I am sure BOA asked her if she posted it. nt

[Logical]

64. They even said "After a brief investigation", and the woman has not said she was framed. nt

[Feeling the Bern]

13. 1st amendment doesn't protect idiots from the wrath of the boss, only the government restricting

free speech.

Buh bye, klans woman!

[nxylas]

14. In this case, people reported her to her employer

I'm still not happy about the overall trend of employers snooping on their employees' social media posts. This particular case seems clear-cut, but generally speaking, I hate the idea of companies that won't even pay their employees enough to live on expecting to be able to monitor and control those employees' entire lives.

[Califonz]

15. Because every Facebook account is 100% legit.

I know because I'm friends with Hugh Jass, Amanda Huggenkiss, and Warren Peece.

[Logical]

60. I am sure BOA asked her if she posted it. nt

[ManiacJoe]

16. If you are going to post stupid stuff to the internet,

it is recommended that you not use your real name and not link to your employer.

[MichMan]

17. Fired for something that had nothing to do with her job?

Am I the only bothered by the fact that she was fired for a Facebook post that had nothing to do with her employment? Her post made no mention of BoA nor anything regarding her job.

Yet previous posters seem to celebrate her being fired for comments, as vile as they are, that were made outside of her employment.

[MrScorpio]

19. You can't possibly think that any black customer of her's...

Would have a reasonable expectation of impartial service, would you? This woman was responsible for other people's money, deposited inside of that bank... People who rely on a bank employees' professional judgement and service no matter what.

If this woman was so blatantly biased against black people in general, how can any black customer expect her to do right by them?

Besides, she made it very clear on the same FB page where she posted her vile, bigoted comments that she was an employee of the BOA. Seeing how BOA already had a bad rep about racist hiring practices, the company that she represented felt that it was in their best interest to dissociate itself from her, her comments and her ideology. They're in the business to make money... To the BOA, money is GREEN, whether it's of their black customers, their white customers or any other customer.

Clearly it's not in the interest of the BOA to look racially biased by association in so obvious a case.

[avebury]

20. You would need to know what is in the BOA Employee Handbook for starters.

There could be language in it that prohibits behavior that would show BOA in an unfavorable light to the public. What probably sunk her with BOA was that it is alleged that her FB page mentioned that she was proud about her employment with them as well as publicizing her extreme racist attitudes. That kind of stuff tends to get the public slamming a company (facebook, emails, phone calls, and so on). Had she left BOA out of her FB page she might have been able to keep her job because people might not have known where she works. Look at the daycare that employees the woman whose child went into the gorilla moat. They ended up taking their FB page down.

Most Banks tend to be pretty conservative and they get enough bad publicity on their own without crap like this. For sure, even had they not terminated her employment, they could not have allowed to her work with the public in any manner.

Social media is a double edged sword. What you put out there always has the potential to come back on you and smack you in the head. Some people just don't get that part of the process.

Edit to add: OK she is a personal banker, in Atlanta. There was no way she was going to survive her idiocy and keep her job. She brought bad publicity to the bank and it would have cost the bank business.

[gollygee]

23. This has everything to do with her job

There's a lot of racism in the banking industry. If you can't get rid of even the most blatant racists, how can that ever be fixed?

[malaise]

65. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

or just laugh.

[Phentex]

24. She feels this way about many of her customers...

so it DOES have to do with her job. How can you not see that?

Plus, it shows a lack of intelligence which the bank may want.

[Blue_Tires]

29. I honestly can't tell if you're serious or just trolling...

[JustAnotherGen]

31. I think he's just going for the negative attention at DU

Seriously - any true liberal or progressive ally of black people would understand -

Our money is just as green as that in the pockets of white Americans -

And I demand to know WHO I'm giving my money to. I need to know what kind of person you are.

I don't understand this segment of liberals/progressives that don't get -

We don't like giving our money to 'those' people. So we need them outed and removed from the financial stream. I'll pay my taxes so she can have TANF and SNAP if necessasy.

[mountain grammy]

42. Exactly!

[Mendocino]

47. Look at her post on facebook

a bit deeper. She stated "personal banker at Bank of America" along with birthplace, her college and present location.

[Logical]

66. FFS, what is wrong with you? I would fire her dumb ass also. Not the type of person I want.....

to work for me.

[MrScorpio]

18. One day...

I'm impressed!

[HughBeaumont]

21. Won't someone think of White 'Murica's tears that need to be dried???

"PC" = "I should be alloweds to say '(insert racial slur here)', '(insert homophobic slur here)', '(insert ethnic slur here)' or '(insert sexist slur here)' without these libs runnin their big fat YAPPERS about it!"

The problem with many of these people is that their culture is "America 30 Years Ago" and never figured out how to adapt to 2016.

[hobbit709]

22. Sometimes the wheel of Karma rolls quickly.

[dembotoz]

25. sometimes what we think is private is not

[gollygee]

26. And she got four likes.

I can't believe people at DU are defending her, or at least looking for any possible "reasonable explanation" as so often happens when there's an incident of racism. I'm sure she would have told them if her Facebook was hacked.

[philosslayer]

30. The people who "liked" the post should be identified as well

And THEIR employers notified.

[JustAnotherGen]

32. Only one

snorty laugh. *smdh*

[gollygee]

34. I also see

One person saying that BOA shoulnd't have acted as "judge jury and executioner" and one saying "because Facebook is always legit" or something, which sounds like they're saying that this person should be given the benefit of the doubt because sometimes people use fake names on Facebook.

[JustAnotherGen]

35. Ahh - see that one now

Yeah -

There was no judge, jury, or executioner.

Employer - Employee.

Employee offensive to a group of people the Employer has a HISTORY or racist behavior towards.

Black people were taxed to save their asses.

She was fired.

It happens every day.

People need to worry about their own checkbooks and not others.

[deutsey]

33. This is further evidence that people who hold such beliefs

increasingly feel there's no need to hide them or to use racist dog-whistle language anymore.

[MrScorpio]

37. If a particular, preening, petulant, petty, profusely prevaricating prick...

Is picked to perform presidentially, his off-putting, phylogenetic pandering will please plenty of pronounced pink pigmentation preferers to proclaim themselves.

That's for sure.

[romanic]

36. She should look at the positive

She won't have to pay for those kids that black moms can't "afford" because now she's broke and unemployed.

Karma always wins in the end.

[ladyVet]

38. Most places I've worked have language that explains why this sort of thing can end a job.

Anything an employee does that could come back on the employer results in termination. She evidently had something that let people know who she worked for, and it obviously didn't paint BoA in a good light, so down she went.

People seem to think that because Trump can get away with the stuff he says, they can too. Doesn't work that way.

[bullwinkle428]

40. I would have fired her on the basis of her incoherent writing, before I

even got to the despicable racism.

[Ace Rothstein]

41. That's quite the hate filled run-on sentence.

[mountain grammy]

44. Making America great again! The Trump campaign will hire here..

[Mendocino]

45. Maybe the Klan has an opening?

n/t

[BootinUp]

46. Enjoy your hate filled existence Christine. nt

[Oneironaut]

48. Here's my problem with this:

What if I hate someone so much that I decide to create a profile picture with their name and face, and then write a vile message like this. Then, I report it to that person's employer to get them fired. It would work 100% of the time. This is why I hate social media.

I'm sure that this is actually this woman's posting, but imagine for a second that it isn't. What if it was the doing of a vile, vengeful person who wanted to destroy her life? Something to consider. We trust that these stories are true, but sometimes they aren't.

[gollygee]

49. They said they investigated

Which might have meant simply asking her.

Of course it's also easy to tell if a Facebook account is new or if a person has been using it for a long time. If she's been posting photos of herself and her family here and there for ages, it's a legit page.

[Oneironaut]

50. Good point. How many people would look that far, though?

Our media is so crappy that it uses Twitter as a legitimate news source. Hopefully BoA actually confirmed that this person wrote the message, and didn't just say, "People are outraged. Let's fire the employee to please them so that we don't look bad."

[gollygee]

51. I'm sure her employer would

They said they investigated and they had until 1 pm, so they had a morning to look into it.

People don't just fire people instantly. This is pretty quick, but it did give plenty of time to look into her Facebook and to simply ask her.

[Glassunion]

56. Not to mention if they did not investigate properly, and terminated her employment

she would have grounds to sue BofA for wrongful termination.

Could you imagine how badly you would sue a former employer who terminates you for something this terrible, if in fact you were not the responsible party? There would be a huge opportunity for a libel suit.

[redstatebluegirl]

52. Wow Trump has made it "cool" to be a racist bigot!

Good for BOA for firing her. They will be screaming "free speech" and we hate "politically correctness" but this has to be stopped.

[tabasco]

53. That's called, "asking to be fired."

A vile racist with anger issues. The employer made the correct decision.

[Mendocino]

54. I would like to think that BOA

did this because it was the ethical thing to do rather than them losing money from people threatening to pull their accounts. Bottom line always runs business.

[4Q2u2]

55. Total lack of Awareness and the Truth

I hope she was not a loan officer. If she was, I wonder how many AA she denied loans to, based on her expert knowledge of race.
BOA had to fire her. Any minority seeking a loan would be able to point to her post and tie BOA to her racist attitude and prove that they did not have a fair and equal chance of benefit.

A BOA employee blaming minorities for a poor economy, now that is rich. Maybe with all her free time she might investigate her former employers record in the housing meltdown.
I mean who knew that the poor and underprivileged in this country held sway over a trillion dollar economy.

[Different Drummer]

57. For what it's worth

she apparently has deleted her Facebook account.

[Different Drummer]

62. Also, there's an article on her somewhere

that, I believe said, she is over 50. I can't remember exactly what the article listed her age as being. 50+ is not the best time of life to be looking for employment--if, in fact, she can find any at all.

[JBoy]

58. Freedom of Speech =/= Freedom from Consequences.

[Different Drummer]

61. +1,000. n/t

[Rex]

68. Will she now file for the dreaded welfare? I wonder if she will get the cosmic irony?

I kid, she will pretend to be the victim for the rest of her life.