Best Buy Employee "Outs" Straight Guy

[Woodsey]

Fuck me, delete it and write another status explaining what happened. Problem solved, dip-shit.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

Can I take a guess at the employee's intellectual and emotional age range? I'd say he's about sixteen, up there. That might actually be generous of me.

"Yeah, dudes, I totally hacked this guy's Facebook page and, like, left a message making him say he was gay!
- DUUUUUDE! Man, that's fuckin' hardcore, brah!
- Right on, broseph! Hey, uh, why don't we get six Irish Car Bombs each tonight and put it on YouTube! It'd be fuckin' rad, bros!
- Oh yeah, oooooh yeeeeah, you're the man, bro, you're the man!"

If that's the case, I hope we'll be able to petition J-Fresh on that matter.

 

[rbstewart7263]

"Well I could explain to everyone that Im straight but then theyl think im a DUN DUN DUNNNN homophobe" So I guess ill just stay single and never find a girl because I let liberal trends keep who I am down through misplaced guilt.


Second they guy prolly just wants to sue for money I dont think any reasonable person is hurt because they had to fix there status.

 

[Doom972]

I don't think he's necessarily a homophobe. In some families/social circles it could have a bad impact on how others see him.
He might be exaggerating the impact of it because he plans to sue Best Buy.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Hmm, If it happened to me I'd probably try to cash in too!

 

[CronoT]

It's a pretty funny way to get fired and brag about it at the bar, but it's nowhere near the awesome level of "Lady Chinky Eyes". Still, the guy should have been fired, no arguements here.

While I can't give details, I was speaking with a customer a few days ago who was wronged and got so pissed, Corporate stepped in and demanded his Termination. You have to royally F*** up for Corporate to personally demand the firing, since I work in a place similar to Franchise set up.

 

[razer17]

EDIT: I also do not agree with the tone taken by the news post. It unfairly paints the man as a homophobe. You're not Fox News. Stop fucking up your reputation Escapist News Room.

He states that his reputation was tarnished because people thought he was gay. That seems pretty homophobic to me.

OT: I suppose the Best Buy employee is probably liable for libel. Me and my friends have facebook raped each other multiple times, usually to the effect of things like "HMMM I love cock" or similar. It's childish and petty, and I suppose on some level is slightly a slur against gays, since it's equating gay sex as being worse than normal sex. Then again, one of my gay friends once got Fraped to say that he loves vagina, so...

 

[RastaBadger]

So you can't just delete the post and make another saying your account was used by someone else?

 

[OneOfTheMichael's]

Well then. I guess news today was slow......

 

[Vigilantis]

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.

There is some differences about your particular story and this one. First off a child molester is not going to openly tell you he/she is one, most of them are quite embarrassed and will DEFEND themselves if caught, but usually not come straight out and admit it. "Coming out of the closet" however is something believable and can affect a persons life. The sad truth is this information on a social networking site can have detrimental consequences on someones daily life.

I for one know some ignorant people who would (if they were friends with this guy during this incident) would have gone to great lengths to 1) Cut all contact and 2) Berate the man at any chance. The fact is there are people like this all over the world, in every position. Employers DO use facebook when hiring people, suppose such an ignorant person like that viewed this story, the man no longer has a job with this particular company. The same applies to families, some are very intolerant of the homosexual lifestyle and will turn anyone who is into a outcast.

Is he taking this too far? Noone can tell to be honest, we aren't living in his environment to realize how horrible this could be to him or if its really nothing at all.

 

[JohnTomorrow]

I think the writer of this report is a dickhead for trying to sign his friend up for a terrorist cell.

What a dumb fucking thing to do.

 

[Allthingsspectacular]

"Denver resident"

That explains it. People there take first world problems SO seriously and will sue over ANYTHING.

 

[Draconalis]

asexual people...

People cannot reproduce without the aid of another. People are not Asexual.

 

[Mr.Wizard]

Okay, here's the way I see it.

To everyone saying that suing bestbuy is taking it too far. A company (especially a company that has anything to do with a customers personal information) has a duty of care to their customers to ensure their personal information is not used in an inappropriate manner. It would be a similar situation if, for example, a bestbuy employee had sold the guys credit card information. Sure, he could contact the bank and get any erroneous charges removed, but I'd still be suing the company over having it happen in the first place. A duty of care has been breached and he has every right to sue the company for it.

For those sayings the guy is a homophobe, I'd posit that even if he is the employee was acting in a vastly more homophobic manner than customer. As someone who grew up in schools where the number 1 playground insult was to call someone a fag the indifferent treatment of homosexuality as a joke hurts much more than someone simply wanting to be honest about their sexuality. This man is not gay, so he doesn't want to be identified as guy. I am not straight so I don't want to be identified as straight.

I'd like to add my support to those who have expressed disappointment in the author of this news piece. Not wanting to be identified as gay does not make the man homophobic, or even mean that he dislikes gay people, and to imply that with no supporting evidence is turning news into gossip, something that already happens far too much these days.

 

[Idlemessiah]

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

Yeah I lost it right there.

OT
The employee: Shouldn't have done it considering they didn't know the guy, even if the guy was a dick it's not worth getting fired for.

The customer: Should be more careful with his stuff and maybe get a better sense of humour.

 

[Doctor Glocktor]

Don't like false rumors = homophobe.

Stay classy, Escapist.

 

[Aprilgold]

that is a very extreme case you pointed out, as that shit gets plastered everywhere when something so horribly illogical happens. I've seen this happen to people i know (derp via facebook status's) and a solid 90% of the time people know it's either a hack or a joke, if his friends/family are that gullible to believe some random status post (or let himself get so worked up about it) then they really need to wake up and take a good whiff of the 21st century.

and while i'm not saying you don't have a point, because you do, let's remember this is Denver Colorado we are talking about here, not some random hick town out in the middle of nowhere or another random country still stuck in 3rd world mode (no offense is meant by that), so the expectations are quite different and for him to honestly sue to win money over it (the guy was fired, that is more than enough justice served) is quite absurd.

While sewing is extreme, and I'm not arguing against that, doesn't mean that it isn't out of the question. He could sue the person for the written version of slander which I can't remember the term for at the moment if it actually caused some real trouble for the man. Hell, it is a felony in multiple places, so he could still very well make that guys life a living hell.

But on topic once more, just because a state is nice doesn't mean that terrible shiz doesn't happen in it. Germany is a nice place but lest we forget that is the place where a dictator decided to kill all the Jews and rose to power. He may have been friends with very highly religious people, and since this is America, most likely insane Catholic people who most likely think that Homosexuality is not only a sin, but a plague that can be vaccinated.

As I said earlier, as well as many others, Facebook profiles can be seen by everybody and certain people will want certain things from a worker. Could have lost a buisness oppurtunity if he was looking for a new job and the dude who was manager there saw his profile, saw he was gay and said no. I can't work at Mcdonalds and rant about how much Mcdonalds is a terrible place without at least raising one eyebrow in the work place. I can't be a priest and go onto my Facebook account and say how much I love to rape children without getting slapped in the face while teaching prayer to said children.

Yes, extreme it may seem, but I wouldn't be honestly surprised if he had to seriously walk people through that he is in fact not gay. Just because your circle of friends are either indifferent or don't care about homosexuality doesn't mean all of his are the same.

Coming out is, once again, a emotional thing, and I wouldn't be surprised that after telling them that he didn't post it they thought he was trying to jump back into the closet, thus they do the thoughtful thing and try to lure him out, and after much talking they get that he was in fact telling the truth about not being homosexual.

judging by how anal the guy is, i guarantee his facebook profile was private, as only friends/family could see, and while i understand your point, these are all VERY situational very TIMELY things you are talking about, not something that occurs day to day in activities, and while yes, just because my "circle of friends" (which most of the time aren't even close friends, usually it's a friend of a friend or some distant person i met once at a party) is cool with it, doesn't mean that they WON'T be cool with it, if your friends hammer down on you that hard about it, then you either have some super douchey friends or he misunderstood them doing typical immature jokes that usually ensue a status like that.

while i agree it can be an emotional thing, i have yet to see a single person come out on a facebook status actually be serious.

not saying i don't see your point, because i do, but i'm done debating about it, as my view point won't be wavered on something as effortless as this that doesn't affect anyone outside those few entities.

I'm not going to point it out, but you can always find a way to learn about a person on Facebook, even if private, if it ends up on one of your friends wall, it can still be tracked if their wall is open to the public, its a giant flaw in it, but isn't that huge of a issue.

Also, just because you haven't heard of something happening doesn't mean it doesn't happen any where else. I'm not arguing, I'm pointing out that its silly to think that because you've only seen people coming out on Facebook as a joke, doesn't mean someone didn't comet out on facebook seriously.

Also, people who come out on Facebook as a joke need to be slapped by a homosexual in my opinion, because its taking something serious for many and making a joke about it. If holocaust jokes aren't cool, I'm sure that I can be offended by people joking about coming out.