[Intrepid]

It was the middle-finger salute seen around the world.

Juli Briskman’s protest aimed at the presidential motorcade that roared past her while she was on her cycling path in Northern Virginia last month became an instantly viral photo.

Turns out it has now cost the 50-year-old marketing executive her job.

On Halloween, after Briskman gave her bosses at Akima LLC, a government contracting firm, a heads-up that she was the unidentified cyclist in the photo, they took her into a room and fired her, she said, escorting her out of the building with a box of her things.

“I wasn’t even at work when I did that,” Briskman said. “But they told me I violated the code of conduct policy"

[Clownkicker]

As we see here, Insipid is just one more hypocritical conservative who despises free speech.

[sillydaddy]

Looks to me like the contractor exercising his 1st Amendment Rights ...
Clown...I'm beginning to think you want free speech only for a select few! :o :o :lol:

[Clownkicker]

The contractor wasn't exercising free speech. He was exercising suppression of free speech. He was retaliating against someone for their political beliefs outside the workplace.

For all you hypocritical conservatives, that isn't the same thing.

It would also not be exercising free speech if the contractor fired her because didn't like her religion or some other belief she held outside the workplace.
It would be like me firing you because you're a racist scumbag who calls blacks "niggers". If you did it at work, then I can fire you. If you do it on your bicycle out on the road, I couldn't do a thing about it.

Are you beginning to see the difference?

[sillydaddy]

The contractor did not suppress anything...
she was not gagged or silenced in anyway....she mad sure the whole world knew about it!

and religion and racism had nothing to do with it...Clown ! quit deflecting! :o

[Intrepid]

Many jobs come with a code of conduct clause. Sometimes called a morality clause. If you do something that brings the company, by it's relation to you, disrepute or dishonor, you may be terminated. Evidently this company had such a code of conduct clause. They would not have fired her if they felt they weren't on solid legal ground.

It would have more difficult to fire you, a crippled minority homosexual, firing females is always problematic, but they did it, so they knew they could.

Now, do a Google search on employment law and you'll find I'm right.

[namngulfvet]

As we see here, Insipid is just one more hypocritical conservative who despises free speech.

LMAO you whine and cry when you cant get your own way assholelicker. you come on here stomp your feet throw a temper tantrum then run off to your safe place in your mommas basement.. you support crime and hate speech so fuck off libtard

[elklindo69]

:lol:

[brandon]

I'm a little conflicted. I agree with Kicker that she did absolutely have the right to express herself. BUT, with that freedom comes consequences...and if that violates her employer's whatever clause or policy then.....It seems arguable.

[RealJustme]

“We have chosen to separate from you,” she quoted one of them as saying to her, citing the company’s social media policy ban on “obscene content.”

She said she was told that she was not meeting the company’s code of conduct and that the officials feared “it could hurt business” because of their work related to government contracts.

The company that fired her didn't say that she couldn't flip the President a bird, they just said she couldn't work them any longer. She's free to flip off anyone she wants to. The NFL should have put their foot down on day one when Kaperdick kneeled during the National Anthem, had they done that the owners wouldn't be losing 100's of millions. His actions affected their bottom line, when employees do that they can be let go.

[johnforbes]

She should have been fired for squeezing her chubby posterior into tights.