Woman fired for Halloween costume

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sixone

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How can you separate your business from your personal life when you post pictures when you are at work? You automatically implicate your employer. And why wouldn't the employer have just as much of a right to react as individuals?

That was HER bad judgment. If the employer had posted it on their page, that would be different - but they didn't.

The business can react in any way they choose. If you don't like it, don't do business with them. There's no need to involve them until and unless they do something wrong.
 

zerocool84

Lifer
Nov 11, 2004
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If her employer didn't think her attire was appropriate, that's their decision to make.

But if they made that decision because of the reactions of people who aren't content to voice their displeasure APPROPRIATELY and then get on with their own lives, that's not right.

This scorched-earth policy against people we disagree with is completely unfair.

I'd side with the naked pictures of her easily accessible for everyone to see is what really got her fired but of course they can't say that so they told her it was because of the costume.
 
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That was HER bad judgment. If the employer had posted it on their page, that would be different - but they didn't.

The business can react in any way they choose. If you don't like it, don't do business with them. There's no need to involve them until and unless they do something wrong.

uh, no six, it doesn't work that way. Photos of you can and do reflect on your employer regardless of who is posting them.
At my job, there is a section in our hand book that basically says "we don't want to interfere with your personal life but if you do anything that reflect poorly on us or is detrimental to our business interest, you're gone."

Why even run the risk of a bad effect on your business when you can just terminate her and be done with it? If nothing else, maybe this chick will learn some workplace etiquette as a result of the supreme act of idiocy.
 

sixone

Lifer
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I'd side with the naked pictures of her easily accessible for everyone to see is what really got her fired but of course they can't say that so they told her it was because of the costume.

And how did they find out about the pics? Because nosy people wanted to be judge, jury, and executioner.
 

sixone

Lifer
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uh, no six, it doesn't work that way. Photos of you can and do reflect on your employer regardless of who is posting them.
At my job, there is a section in our hand book that basically says "we don't want to interfere with your personal life but if you do anything that reflect poorly on us or is detrimental to our business interest, you're gone."

Why even run the risk of a bad effect on your business when you can just terminate her and be done with it? If nothing else, maybe this chick will learn some workplace etiquette as a result of the supreme act of idiocy.

You seem to be fixated on what the business did. I'm talking about the people who contacted her employer, her parents, and anyone else they could find, instead of simply voicing their opinion and getting on with their lives.

The root of the problem is those intolerant, vengeful people.
 

tigersty1e

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even worse is that nobody at work said anything to her in her face.

if they did, she probably woulldn't have had a co-worker take the pic.
 
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You seem to be fixated on what the business did. I'm talking about the people who contacted her employer, her parents, and anyone else they could find, instead of simply voicing their opinion and getting on with their lives.

The root of the problem is those intolerant, vengeful people.

Let me put it this way: I can't think of a scenario where I would call someone's work and complain about a photo of that person, but at the same time, I can't say that I'm surprised there are people that would.
 

Newbian

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You seem to be fixated on what the business did. I'm talking about the people who contacted her employer, her parents, and anyone else they could find, instead of simply voicing their opinion and getting on with their lives.

The root of the problem is those intolerant, vengeful people.

They did voice their opinion to her employers thus why she was fired.

But I am guessing it had a lot more to do then just the costume such as the freely available nudes but even then as mentioned above you made it a hassle for the employers thus you were not worth keeping.
 
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Newbian

Lifer
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I said APPROPRIATELY. If you have a problem with someone, go to them. Not their employer, not their family.

I am sorry but the employer is fair game when you post the photo while at your place of work.

It would be no different if a person posts racial comments while at work and it gets tracked back to them or when a school teacher posts nude photo's and wonders why she is fired.

Hitting them where they work like we have seen with celebrities also who do racial issues and then complain when they get their movie boycotted is fair game.

It's just in this case she was stupid enough to make fun of this when it's too early + posting her drivers license to the public will mean you will get tracked down especially in this age of social media.

But she has gotten a offer to do porn because of the nudes so she might actually make more money now then before.
 
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sixone

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I am sorry but the employer is fair game when you post the photo while at your place of work.

It would be no different if a person posts racial comments while at work and it gets tracked back to them or when a school teacher posts nude photo's and wonders why she is fired.

Hitting them where they work like we have seen with celebrities also who do racial issues and then complain when they get their movie boycotted is fair game.

She's not guilty of anything worse than bad taste. And her employer isn't even guilty of that. Interfering with their business isn't in any way justifiable, in this case.

If you don't like what she did, feel free to tell HER that. But if you feel that she needs to be punished because you don't like her choices, your problem is YOU.
 

Newbian

Lifer
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She's not guilty of anything worse than bad taste. And her employer isn't even guilty of that. Interfering with their business isn't in any way justifiable, in this case.

If you don't like what she did, feel free to tell HER that. But if you feel that she needs to be punished because you don't like her choices, your problem is YOU.

People feel the same way for similar issues such as we see here:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2349709

Personally I don't give a crap about it and only want to watch a good movie but if you piss people off in ways and then provide a good way to respond to your action in this day and age some people will take it.

Sure going after the family is going across the line but seeing as she posted this while at work it opened it up to going after them also to reprimand her for being stupid.
 

Exterous

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It still amazes me how people think that vile death threats are acceptable reactions to someone doing something distasteful but not actually threatening or really all that harmful

People need to lighten up! Jeebus!

I don't think even his MS paint skills can fix this mess.
 

sixone

Lifer
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People feel the same way for similar issues such as we see here:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2349709

Personally I don't give a crap about it and only want to watch a good movie but if you piss people off in ways and then provide a good way to respond to your action in this day and age some people will take it.

Sure going after the family is going across the line but seeing as she posted this while at work it opened it up to going after them also to reprimand her for being stupid.

Where she posted from is irrelevant. It was HER poor judgment, not her employer's. The only reason to bring her employer into it is to coerce them into doing what you don't have the power to do - punish her for not agreeing with you.
 

Newbian

Lifer
Aug 24, 2008
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Where she posted from is irrelevant. It was HER poor judgment, not her employer's. The only reason to bring her employer into it is to coerce them into doing what you don't have the power to do - punish her for not agreeing with you.

Where she posted it is 100% relevant in this case so you cannot say it isn't.

Even if they didn't go after her employer like that what do you think would had happened as the story went viral and her nudes were posted like they have been?

Her co-workers / bosses would had seen them and then it would cause issues for her at work and more then likely fired over it because of what she caused by posting them and them become available to the public as we have seen in cases of teachers posting similar items and parents finding out and reporting it.

As thug mentioned it's fair game and it probably wasn't just one isolated case that caused it with how much stupid stuff she did.

It's no different when a company hires a celebrity to promote a item and said person does something against the company's view on their time off and gets fired over it because of the backlash the company faces as we have seen many times.
 
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BoomerD

No Lifer
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Poor taste? Yes Should she have posted pics taken at work? NO...but it WAS a Halloween costume. Many are (at best) in poor taste.

Personally, I think ALL Halloween costumes should be banned from the workplace. You're there to work, not act like kids.
 

Leros

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I don't mind seeing her fired. It serves as an example to kids that there are consequences to being an idiot.

I don't feel bad seeing her get fired, but I do feel bad that this blew up all over the internet. This is going to affect her for the rest of her life. Any time she applies for a job, this is going to popup when the company Googles her name. All her family, friends, and even her future children are going to potentially run across her nude pictures online. Those articles and pictures are never going away.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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I don't feel bad seeing her get fired, but I do feel bad that this blew up all over the internet. This is going to affect her for the rest of her life. Any time she applies for a job, this is going to popup when the company Googles her name. All her family, friends, and even her future children are going to potentially run across her nude pictures online. Those articles and pictures are never going away.

 
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