Labor Attorneys Agree: The Adria Richards Firing Will Be Hard to Defend

[Demo_Chris]

148. You are all over the place on this.

He was responsible for his actions. His action was using a ridiculously tame, non-graphic sexual pun as a joke to his friend. That was the END of his actions.

Just as he is responsible for what he did, she is responsible for what she did. She decided, for reasons unknown, to pretend she was offended, take the guy's picture, and plaster it on twitter and her blog claiming that she was feeling sexually harrassed. She didn't confront the guy, she smiled at him and took his picture. She didn't report it to the conference, she didn't report it to his company, and she didn't report it to her own. She decided it would be more fun to take this ludicrous non-issue and create as much drama and devistation as she possibly could. She wanted to create a scene, she wanted to get someone fired, she succeeded at both.

You don't have ANY information as to why he was fired by his company or whether there were any previous issues. None. That's all just speculation. You do not even have evidence that his company even knew or cared what the complaint was before firing him -- it is entirely possible that they did not. Many companies don't even care, fair or unfair doesn't matter, they respond by firing first and asking questions never, particularly when it involves potential sexual harassment. A company cannot be too careful with women like this running around.

This cannot be said for her employer. They made a decision to fire this woman knowing the facts. I would have fired her myself. I wouldn't want this toxic troublemaker anywhere near my business, and I suspect potential future employers will feel the same.

Finally, you keep trying to inject the post incident comments she has received into this discussion, in an effort to use this as justification for what happened before. That sort of revision requires no comment.