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Oopsie!: Woman Fired for Photo of Her Giving Trump the Finger |
2017-11-07 |
[LawNewz] A woman lost her job after giving President Donald Trump the finger. Juli Briskman was off-duty when she was riding a bicycle past the president’s motorcade, and gave him the one-finger salute. The greeting was caught on camera, and the image soon went viral. Briskman herself then used it as a profile picture on Facebook and Twitter. That last part, apparently, was too much for her employer, government contractor Akima LLC. Within days, they fired her, Briskman told HuffPost. "They said, ’We’re separating from you,'" Briskman told reporter Jennifer Bendery. "Basically, you cannot have ’lewd’ or ’obscene’ things in your social media. So they were calling flipping him off ’obscene.’’" While Briskman wasn’t working at the time she did this, and she doesn’t mention where she works in her social media profiles, the company told her it could hurt their business. The terms of her employment were at-will, so the company was within their right to do what they pleased. Still, Briskman believes that the company hasn’t exactly been consistent with their lewdness policy, as a male coworker once posted on Facebook calling someone else ""a fucking Libtard asshole." Briskman said that employee kept his job after deleting the comment. "How is that fair?" she asked. "Life is unfair." - John F.Kennedy Briskman said this wasn’t the first time she flipped off the motorcade, and despite losing her job, she does not regret what she did. "I’m angry about where our country is right now. I am appalled. This was an opportunity for me to say something." She says now that she’s looking for work again, she hopes to get a job with an advocacy group like PETA. |
Posted by:Vast Right Wing Conspiracy |
#7 Eh. Without a link from her to the company, how is it going to hurt business? Sauce for the goose and all that. I and the UW administration differ dramatically on a number of things, but I don't claim to represent them: it isn't their business. |
Posted by: james 2017-11-07 18:48 |
#6 Best part. No one knew who had flipped the finger to Don. She told her employers who promptly fired the idiot on the spot. Marched her out of the building. Bye. A steady paint chip diet is never good as it brings out the true liberals. |
Posted by: Woodrow 2017-11-07 12:28 |
#5 she hopes to get a job with an advocacy group like PETA. Perfect place for this cow. |
Posted by: regular joe 2017-11-07 12:06 |
#4 It's OK for her to give Trump's motorcade the finger and play it up in social media, she feels, but just let some guy call her a dumb b*tch in front of everyone in a meeting and see how she feels about that. |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-11-07 11:37 |
#3 The feeding hand bitten, and where might we have seen that previously ? |
Posted by: Besoeker 2017-11-07 07:48 |
#2 There's probably a job for Juli Briskman with the DNC. |
Posted by: JohnQC 2017-11-07 07:45 |
#1 her employer is a govt contractor this is similar to saying "Coke Sucks" when you work for Coca Cola |
Posted by: lord garth 2017-11-07 03:08 |