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

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190. They were one row behind her. I have been to conferences before and that is not a great distance.

I am not saying they were whispering or that their behavior was professional. I am saying that she handled it incorrectly and that all parties involved overreacted including their companies that fired them. She is not the morality police. She made an error in
judgment by posting to twitter for 18k people to see the photo.

She never gave them the opportunity to stop their behavior by telling them to stop. She wanted to publicly shame them. She did and now she is out of a job and a pariah in the industry. Ultimately she is going to pay the biggest price for her lack of
judgment.

If you hear a racist joke you also tell them to knock it off. I don't take it upon myself to photograph them and post it on twitter.
Again these 2 people did not work at her company. They were 2 random people in the industry. Conversations in public happen all of the time that I don't appreciate i.e.. foul language, politics, etc. What are we saying? Is it ok to publicly shame and put someone's livelihood in jeopardy because we don't like what someone is saying to another person? Speak up and let it be known you are offended. Ask them to move or keep it down, call over event staff etc. But now with the power of technology I can out you to the world, post your picture, blog about you and get you fired. 2 wrongs don't make a right. That old saying is a perfect
analogy in this situation.

I boils down to she never gave them the opportunity to stop their offensive behavior because she never spoke to them like a human being. if they refused to shut up that would be a different conversation. One of the men apologized to her after reading her blog, now he is fired.