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In reply to the discussion: Pennsylvania man hurls vile, racist insults at cameraman and protesters, promptly gets swift justice [View all]Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Yes it will effect their business having someone like this on their payroll. #1 It would be bad PR. #2 This asshat, seems to me like he'd be hostile to work with, unless of course you are an asshat racist just like him. It is a wise decision to fire this piece of walking garbage.
Having an employee like this on the payroll will hurt business. A good employer knows that customers make jobs, and that your employees in those jobs are the face of your business to those customers. So customers create jobs, and employees grow the business.
If I needed some landscaping done and hired this business to do it, and this asshole showed up and started talking to me like he did that cameraman, that company would lose my business, and it would be a relationship beyond repair. Not to mention how far out of my way I'd go to make sure that everyone I met would know how shitty the company is.
Now from the employee side... As a black man, I would not be happy working with someone like this, nor for a company that would keep someone like him on the payroll. So, how happy of a face would I put forward knowing I'd have to work with a racist asshat on a daily basis? Sure asshat is fine at work, but tosses racist slurs during what appears to be every waking moment outside of work. The face of the business would a rather sour one.
I would not want to do business with a company with a bunch of sour employees. To me that says that the employer is not taking care of their employees. As a customer, how could I spend my money with a business that is terrible to their employees? I'd have a hand in their misery and would be responsible for it by giving this company money to continue abusing their employees.
So, a bit of a reality check is in order. This jerk stopped his car (he did not have to), got out of his car (he did not have to), walked up to the protesters (he did not have to), started arguing with them (he did not have to), was stupid enough to call a cameraman a nigger (he did not have to), while the camera was rolling continued his racist tirade (he did not have to), and now someone wants to cry foul because he lost his job? To me it looks like this asshat went well out of his way to get fired. He did not have to stop, he did not have to argue, and he was on a level of stupid so high the laws of physics would need to be broken to build a sensor able to accurately gauge how fucking dumb he was for looking at the camera and saying what he said.
As an employer, if I ever found so much as an inkling of one of my people acting like this asshat outside of work or not, their ass would be fired so obscenely fast that they may burn up on reentry into the atmosphere. This jerk, nor any like him would be welcome around any of my employees. I have a duty to ensure they are happy and taken care of first and always.