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Arlington Cemetery pic sparks outrage, calls for woman's firing

Isn't public humiliation at being her age and so childish enough?
 
The woman is a jerk. This decisions should be up to her employer and based on her job performance.
 
Behaving like a childish idiot isn't a crime, and any employer who fires her is looking at a pretty nasty first-amendment based wrongful termination suit.
 
Her employer's statement:

On Nov. 19 at approximately 6 p.m., we became aware that one of our employees had posted an offensive, inappropriate photograph on her personal Facebook page. The photo was taken at a national historic site in October by a fellow employee during a trip to Washington, D.C. attended by 40 residents and eight staff. The photo has since been removed from Facebook, and both employees have been placed on unpaid leave pending the results of an internal investigation.
 


Seriously, though...I detect a certain amount of over reaction going on here.
 
I think it was a jerk thing to do. I do not care if she was just trying to create a gag photo. I'd exercise my first amendment right to quote Donald Trump from the Apprentice to her and let her sue me if she wanted to. As long as I did not object to her unemployment, she'd have little chance of winning IMO.
 
She should absolutely not lose her job. Americans do not have a better or more shared past-time than righteous indignation.
 
She was on a company-paid trip, and her manager took the pic. She has been placed on leave. That company, Living Independently Forever, Inc., apparently does provide services to disabled vets.

http://bostinno.com/2012/11/20/lindsey-stone-massachusetts-woman-flips-off-tomb-of-unknown-soldier/
Iwas going to initially say she shouldn't be fired but there is a case for it based on two things. 1) The incident happened on the organizations dime 2) She is a representative of the organization and they deal with veterans. Had this been a personal trip she paid for I would say no she shouldn't be fired, I still say it's up to the organizaion though.

No matter what, she did something glaringly disrespectful and in horrible taste.
 
She shouldn't lose her job unless the publicity rains down on her company and interferes with normal operations. I don't think that'll happen, though.
The public shouldn't have a say in this, BUT it would be grounds for termination here because of the nature of the organization and the offense. She pretty much desecrated a tribute to many of the people they serve, not a good tide to swim against for her.
 

Holy cow people need to get a life. Should every person that burns the US flag be fired? That seems more disrespectful to me, though I don't care if people do it. What about people that call soldiers murderers? Where does it stop. I hope that if for some crazy reason she IS fired that the company gets taken to court and found guilty of violating her rights and forced to pay billions of dollars to her.

For those that are offended by what she did you eriously need to get a ****ing life.
 
It's stupid but if she were my employee she wouldn't lose her job. No doubt we'd have a bit of discussion but if I fired people for being jerks it would be awfully quiet around here.
 

She was on company time on a company trip when this photo was taken.So the company has every right to fire her over this. This would be no different if a McDonald's employee was fired for taking a picture of themselves pretending to give head to a plastic Ronald McDonald statue while wearing a McDonald's uniform and posted on facebook or a Walmart employee getting fired because he or she took a picture of themselves saying walmart sucks ass while pushing carts and posted it on twitter.
 
She was on a company trip, and she was with co-workers, but it's not clear she was on company time at that moment. She may have been on an off-time side trip. The story isn't clear on that point. People usually do have off-time on company trips.
 
She was on a company trip, and she was with co-workers, but it's not clear she was on company time at that moment. She may have been on an off-time side trip. The story isn't clear on that point. People usually do have off-time on company trips.
If you're on the company dime you're on the company time. In fact for paid conferences many companies have had to dismiss representatives who disgraced them "on their time". That said it's up to the organization to decide what the course of action should be.
 
If you're on the company dime you're on the company time. In fact for paid conferences many companies have had to dismiss representatives who disgraced them "on their time". That said it's up to the organization to decide what the course of action should be.

Yes, if you're on the company dime, you're on the company's time. Foolish are the conventioneers, etc. who forget this.

It is up to the company, whose clients are those who have learning and intellectual disabilities, to decide the two employees' fates. I wonder what's in their contracts.

If Lindsey Stone loses her job, she may struggle to find another one because she's demonstrated such poor judgment. Please, 30 and posing so stupidly? And then posting it on FB?

I wonder what she calls her clients. "Retards"? "Dummies"? If she can't be respectful in a cemetery, how sensitive is she on the job?
 
Yes, if you're on the company dime, you're on the company's time. Foolish are the conventioneers, etc. who forget this.

It is up to the company, whose clients are those who have learning and intellectual disabilities, to decide the two employees' fates. I wonder what's in their contracts.

If Lindsey Stone loses her job, she may struggle to find another one because she's demonstrated such poor judgment. Please, 30 and posing so stupidly? And then posting it on FB?

I wonder what she calls her clients. "Retards"? "Dummies"? If she can't be respectful in a cemetery, how sensitive is she on the job?
And this is in the non profit sector, much more lenient rules. Hiring managers may not be willing to risk their own butts by bringing in a potential liability.
 
The blessing of living in an at-will employment state, I can fire anybody for any reason and never have to explain why. It would be up to them to prove why unless I objected to their unemployment benefits.
 
On the scale of offensive things in the world, this is little more than a zit on the moon. She was behaving like an ass, proudly posted photos of herself behaving like an ass, and received the consequences of that behavior from a bunch of offended people. Nothing to see here... so far.

However... and it's a big one... she was literally working at the time she indulged in this behavior, and was representing her company (who serves veterans, among others) on their dime. Because she was on a business trip, her behavior reflected on her company. If they want to fire her, I really don't care. Poor judgment and certain jobs just don't go together. If they decide to keep her, I really don't care. Maybe her judgment isn't always that lousy.

Frankly, I think she's dumber than a sack of hammers to have thought such a stunt would be well-received on the internet, but when I hit the "submit" button on this post, I will already have forgotten her.
 
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