Best Buy Employee "Outs" Straight Guy

[fozzy360]

He apparently isn't very fond of homosexuals.

"I feel I have been humiliated. My reputation has been tarnished," he said.

I like how you come to your own conclusion about someone's character by taking one quote and using it as your only source of evidence to back it up. Very neat.

OT: Overreaction? Sure. Kinda dumb of him to make sure he didn't sign off? Yeah, but it was still messed up. I think getting the employee fired (which I think did end up happening) is enough, but exploring "legal options" is just too much.

 

[Knight Templar]

I was thinking "Ok funny, but since it was done by somebody abusing their position at work I think that's crossing a line"

"He apparently isn't very fond of homosexuals."
Yet this changes everything and it's amazingly funny again, I am not burdened by sympathy for him.

 

[Syzygy23]

Your reputation wasn't tarnished until you said that. -_-

I'm Facebook friends with someone who left her Facebook open and the "hilarious prankster" wrote a status about being a child molester, but that whole hubbub lasted a full day before she re-logged in, deleted the status and shouted down the guy who did it (BECAUSE SERIOUSLY, WTF). Reputation damage: 0.

This story has only proved to me further that some people need to stop taking themselves so seriously. A simple "I'm gay, ha ha" on your Facebook wall isn't anything close to the worst thing they could have done, he should have ended with a general complaint and not pursued legal action.

I dunno, not everyone LIKES the idea of other people they know thinking they take dicks up the ass.

 

[L. Declis]

All he got was a simple "I am coming out, I am gay"?

Please. A real master doesn't post a status. Too obvious. Here's how to really get someone stupid enough to leave Facebook on.

1) Change their info. For example, Looking For: "Men". Religion: "On My Knees to Please". Etc. If you can imply goat-rape, the better.

2) Delete the news feed of it. Be quick, you may not have a lot of time.

3) Log out for them. So they don't know they've been so stupid.

Apparently, one of my friends lost a date because the girl who was thinking of asking him found out he was gay via Facebook, rather than just asking him.

Is this harsh? Yes. But when the uni library is already too full, and you're just sitting on Facebook when there are people who really need to get some work done, even though you've got a laptop and I can see it in your bag you selfish...

Don't leave your Facebook on in public. It's the same sort of lesson as "Don't forget to lock the front door of your house".

 

[Cecilthedarkknight_234]

well this made my day, thank you

 

[thom_cat_]

Nawwww a homophobic guy got a little shame on facebook. Get fucked mate.
Nobody cares, it doesn't take much effort to post "good hack" and everything is solved.
If that happened to me I might even go on with it for lolz.
Yeah I'm totally gay.
Anyone who knows me would know it's not true - probably the girlfriend would tip them off. But seriously, grow some balls.

 

[Knight Templar]

You do realize that he never actually said that, and that line is in the story out of a complete lack of journalistic integrity, right?

"He apparently isn't very fond of homosexuals" was never even presented as a quote, I never said I thought it was a quote.

 

[loc978]

...whatever happened to accepting the fact that bad shit happens?

I mean really, the guy gets his facebook page defaced and has to explain it to people.. and the person responsible loses his job. It happened, and it got taken care of. There are no save points in life. Move on, man.

Spoiler: or, to put it another way

 

[Furioso]

Should this guy worry about his reputation being tarnished? Probably not, and it will most likely become a funny story for him and the people he knows in the future. Did the employee deserve to get fired? FUCKING YES. I don't want to have to worry about employees I trust with my phone and/or computer getting in there and dicking around with who knows what, frankly the guy is lucky that he only messed with facebook, and I would take whatever legal action I could against the guy... probably wouldn't pull the reputation charge, but hey, his lawyers probably know a lot more than I do about winning cases

 

[Baldr]

Best Buy has very strict privacy policies. I bet Best buy pays out big to make this go away. They probably fired the employee and his/her manager.

 

[TriGGeR_HaPPy]

You're all really missing the point.

The guy handed in the phone to Best Buy, and the Best Buy employee abused his position. The customer was wronged, and there's nothing to "get over". This is the main point.

The details of homosexuality and whatnot are just the means.

Yeah, this. It not about what was put on his Facebook wall, the fact of the matter is that the employee used his position wrongly.

I agree that this lawsuit is still taking it just a bit too far since the employee was fired, but there have been much stupider lawsuits over smaller stuff before, so I'm not at all surprised.

Also, this:

He apparently isn't very fond of homosexuals.

"I feel I have been humiliated. My reputation has been tarnished," he said.

I like how you come to your own conclusion about someone's character by taking one quote and using it as your only source of evidence to back it up. Very neat.

*snip*

I watched the video, and it doesn't at all sound like "he apparently isn't very fond of homosexuals." It merely sounds exactly as he said, that he's just tired of explaining to people that he isn't gay.
Imagine if you're in his position, a straight male who apparently people would believe is gay when given the chance. Then a status pops up on your facebook saying you're gay. Sure, most people should understand that it's a "frape", others may take it more seriously though, and "tarnish" his reputation of being straight.

How he feels about homosexuals has absolutely nothing to do with it, he just doesn't want people to see him as one because he isn't one.

It's just like not wanting to be seen as a woman if you're a man (or vice versa). If you're one of those people who really cares what other people think of you, then if you're a man who other people keep saying acts like and is practically a woman, you wouldn't want to give any fodder to the claims (even if they're obviously untrue). It doesn't at all mean that you don't like woman, just that you're not one.
^ ^ ^ Really odd example, but I just woke up and couldn't think of a better one... ;>_>

EDIT: Of course, I also agree that some people just need to lighten up, because more often than not claims such as these are said purely because the person takes him/herself far too seriously. I'm just pointing out where I think he's coming from.

 

[Quaidis]

I don't understand the problem. Why doesn't he simply delete the message and post another one saying that he was facebook-jacked? Everyone will go, "Oooh...", have a good laugh about it, and go on living life.

Getting butt-hurt and threatening to sue seems a tad extreme.

 

[Aprilgold]

granted the best buy employee is a complete douchebag, especially doing that to someone you probably don't even know

however, simply saying "that wasn't me, phone was used by someone else, i'm not gay" is pretty dang easy....seeking legal issues? you kidding me? you must live in some very very strange world, as that is almost offensive in itself to take that much offense to it, regardless.

I don't know man, he may have known a bunch of religious nut-jobs, hell, there was a story on Reddit earlier today about a black-supremist-jew who saw his son, which is one of 9 I believe, smack another on the ass. The kid is 4 years old, and what did he do? Well he picked up a fire arm, played some very loud prayer music in the garage, shot the boy in the head and then told the mother. Who is essentially his slave to put it in a suitcase and hide it. I'd like to note he is / was essentially a cult leader, with 4 wives to boot.

Believe it or not, this could have either threatened future employment, his friends or family or anyone he has a known association with. Coming out is a emotional thing and having to fix it is almost like yelling you have cancer but it was only a joke. And if the dude didn't have his phone then he very well couldn't have fixed it in day one, so he would have been oblivious to it until his next shift, then he would have to answer to the texts, phonecalls and facebook messages. One day is twenty four hours, which is quite some time. Plenty of people would have saw the post and it wouldn't be like he saw it in less then a minute and fix it, where only his dog saw it, no, it would have had enough time to sink into peoples brains.

Once again, there are places in the world that essentially mentally beat up children if they did something wrong in the eye of the lord. Whether it be getting raped, homosexuality, or even being suicidal, they will mentally and physically beat them up over things that are either out of their hands or caused by what their trying to fix. I doubt that just because you friends are cool with Homosexuality and vice versa doesn't necessarily mean his family or his friends are.

I dunno, not everyone LIKES the idea of other people they know thinking they take dicks up the ass.

Remember that not all homosexuals take it up the bum because there is always someone who has to give them the thing going up their bum.

 

[The Hungry Samurai]

Still amazed at how many people think that this guy not wanting people to think that he is gay = homophobia.

If I went around calling openly gay people straight, they have all the right in the world to be pissed. Do people have their politically correct heads so far up their asses that this guy can't defend his identity without being treated like a monster?

How about some hate for the best buy douche using implied homosexuality as an insult instead?

 

[Canadamus Prime]

This is hilarious.

Not because of the prank itself but the fact that Facebook has grown so huge that it can apparently affect your entire life to this extent.

Another reason why I don't bother with the damned parasite.

That's not funny, that's fucking terrifying. This combined with that other story about the guys getting fired for "liking" something on Facebook, just make me want to continue to stay a million billion kms away from Facebook at all times.

 

[Knight Templar]

You do realize that he never actually said that, and that line is in the story out of a complete lack of journalistic integrity, right?

"He apparently isn't very fond of homosexuals" was never even presented as a quote, I never said I thought it was a quote.

No, but it seems you're more than willing to hold it against him.

Is this going anywhere?

I don't see what your point is.

 

[TomLikesGuitar]

I'd be much more embarrassed explaining that I was too stupid to sign-off Facebook before turning in my phone.

He apparently isn't very fond of homosexuals.

"I feel I have been humiliated. My reputation has been tarnished," he said.

Yep, he's a moron alright.

This is the general attitude of the people in this thread...

"I CANT BELIEVE HE'S ANGRY THAT SOMEONE WHO HE PAID TO FIX HIS PHONE POSTED THAT HE WAS GAY ON HIS FACEBOOK! I WOULD BE TOTALLY FINE WITH IT!"

Let's be honest here, it'd be fucking embarrassing and you know it.