Best Buy Employee "Outs" Straight Guy

[AvsJoe]

"He's currently exploring his legal options with his attorney. That is not a euphemism."

If it was that would be the greatest euphemism I've heard all year. I'm "exploring" my "legal options" with my "attorney", wink, wink.

 

[mooncalf]

Have a heart, the dude got fired! Isn't that enough? Oh well, it was a dick move.

 

[Alandoril]

Surely he could just say, "sorry, got fraped" and laugh it off?

 

[BabyRaptor]

Hats off to the employee. People who hold bigoted attitudes like that deserve whatever shit life throws at them.

 

[rattusvirtualis]

I think another important point to consider is that the bloke handed his phone over in good faith and his trust in the company was abused. And if the employee was willingr to go into his facebook account, what else would have been willing to do? for instance, if a banking app had been left open and the employee had messed with his finances, would he still be an over-reacting arsehole? I suspect not.

 

[Calibanbutcher]

Hats off to the employee. People who hold bigoted attitudes like that deserve whatever shit life throws at them.

How is the man bigoted?
He never said anything to imply that he dislikes gays, however he does not want to be identified as one.
As rattusvirtualis said, he handed over his possesions in good trust, and this trust was abused.
How does one become a homophobe from saying that one IS not gay and does not want to be outed, since one is not?
Because I am not gay and have no sexual interest in men whatsoever, yet some friends of mine are gay. Am I a homophobe now, for not wanting to be called gay, not being gay and not wanting to sleep with men?

 

[rattusvirtualis]

Hats off to the employee. People who hold bigoted attitudes like that deserve whatever shit life throws at them.

It is NOT bigotted to not like be labelled as something one is not.

 

[Buizel91]

With the near global acceptance for homosexuality these days this will be thrown out in court. As soon as he mentions that he doesn't like homosexuals the court will be instantly against him.

Where? Where is he actually saying that he doesn't like homosexuals? Admittedly the link to the source was a flash video so I haven't seen the original video, but I can't see anything quoted in this article that makes me think the man is homophobic. All I see is that being implied by the author of the story.

"Now the "sign in as someone else and make them say embarrassing stuff" prank has been a mainstay of pubescent jokery for years - I recall one wasted summer spent trying to sign up a friend for an al-Qaeda terrorist cell - but Dewberry isn't laughing. He apparently isn't very fond of homosexuals."

Right there

 

[Calibanbutcher]

With the near global acceptance for homosexuality these days this will be thrown out in court. As soon as he mentions that he doesn't like homosexuals the court will be instantly against him.

Where? Where is he actually saying that he doesn't like homosexuals? Admittedly the link to the source was a flash video so I haven't seen the original video, but I can't see anything quoted in this article that makes me think the man is homophobic. All I see is that being implied by the author of the story.

"Now the "sign in as someone else and make them say embarrassing stuff" prank has been a mainstay of pubescent jokery for years - I recall one wasted summer spent trying to sign up a friend for an al-Qaeda terrorist cell - but Dewberry isn't laughing. He apparently isn't very fond of homosexuals."

Right there

No, THERE the escapist says that he isn't very fond of homosexuals.
Show me where Dewberry HIMSELF said that he dislikes homosexuals.

 

[Seydaman]

Some people are just really uptight.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Huh...so we find out the guy is absent-minded, then we find out the employee is immature, then we find out that the guy is intolerant of homosexuals. We don't know the employee's name, but we know the guy's name. Who comes off worse, I wonder.

 

[The Hungry Samurai]

Hats off to the employee. People who hold bigoted attitudes like that deserve whatever shit life throws at them.

It is NOT bigotted to not like be labelled as something one is not.

It is however pretty bigoted to call someone gay with the intent of hurting someone. Looking at the big picture Baby raptor may want to put his hat back on.

 

[rattusvirtualis]

Hats off to the employee. People who hold bigoted attitudes like that deserve whatever shit life throws at them.

It is NOT bigotted to not like be labelled as something one is not.

It is however pretty bigoted to call someone gay with the intent of hurting someone. Looking at the big picture Baby raptor may want to put his hat back on.

Eh? I believe Baby Raptor was calling the customer bigotted, not the employee.

EDITED: My bad... Ignore me

 

[rattusvirtualis]

Huh...so we find out the guy is absent-minded, then we find out the employee is immature, then we find out that the guy is intolerant of homosexuals. We don't know the employee's name, but we know the guy's name. Who comes off worse, I wonder.

Did we read the same article? I still don't see where the customer is shown as intolerant to anyone, except the employee/company that abused his trust.

 

[Draconalis]

i used the word wrong

Yes you did, glad you can admit it.

For the record. Humans have sexual organs and genders. The "No sex" in that definition applies to gender, not the act of making naughty. It is a word that defines a form of reproduction, that is the meaning of the word.

Next time you want to rebuttal in a defensive way, make sure you know what your talking about.

Edit:

Ah, definition number 2 for the Unabridged Dictionary supports your claim... there's a reason I don't ever read the Unabridged definitions... it defines how people use words wrong. I do not acknowledge sources that use words incorrectly.

 

[Stu35]

Surely he could just say, "sorry, got fraped" and laugh it off?

Possibly, or half the people who read, "i got fraped" will see it as a go-to when he tried to backpedal when coming out didn't work out so well.
It's the internet. Saying you got fraped is just as believable as as anything else you could say.

Bullshit.

People get fraped all the time, nobody ever GENUINELY believes that, if someone has a status saying "I am gay", followed shortly by a "Sorry guys, not gay - got fraped", then they're just backpedalling on a 'coming out' that didn't go too well.

Indeed, of the two people I've seen come out (genuinely) on facebook, both had to actually insist, repeatedly, that they were in fact, gay, and that they had not simply been fraped, or done it for a laugh.


... I dunno, maybe I just know fewer retarded people than everyone else? (unlikely, I live in the British equivalent of the American deep-south (Yorkshire), where there are a lot of inbred retards).

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

Hats off to the employee. People who hold bigoted attitudes like that deserve whatever shit life throws at them.

Enlighten me, if you don't mind, on why you hold this view in this case. "whatever shit life throws at them" is also a pretty general license for misfortune to befall people you disagree with.

OT: Best Buy is going to throw this employee under the bus, if there's anything more they can do to do so

 

[Gilhelmi]

smip

Let me reitterate, the guy was obviously a twit for doing it, he probably did it for a giggle, and am sure he kicks himself now. But it isn't this great invasion that you are making it out to be, if you are concerned about that, get irate at your damn governments, because I can assure you that they will take more glee and benefit from invading your privacy than some "asshole employee" behind a sodding counter.

I do get very irate at the government. The Patriot act was a B.A.D., bad idea. Warrentless searches/wiretaps is just plain unconstitutional and I am still waiting for someone with money to take the case all the way to the supreme court. I would but sadly I do not have the tens of millions it takes to take something to the supreme court.