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Last month, a random bicyclist hoisted the bird to President Trump’s motorcade as it passed on a northern Virginia roadway. Okay, people have First Amendment rights. No problem. The photo of this event “went viral” (which is funny because I never saw it until the Washington Post published it along with a sanctimonious piece lauding the cyclist’s victimhood). Then the woman’s employer found out about it when she told them it was her in the photo.
They fired her.
Gasp.
Now this woman wasn’t a food server at a cafeteria. She was a marketing executive at a government contracting company. That company depends on the government for its livelihood, and therefore bad publicity within the government is deleterious to their mission. The woman, Juli Briskman, is a marketing executive. It’s her job to meet with and persuade those same government people who now know she flipped off the president, representing her company to them.
Suddenly, Briskman became a liability. You bet she should be fired. She wasn’t fired for flipping the bird. She was fired for becoming a liability to her employer.
Now, the second question. Is the company violating her First Amendment rights? No. Those apply to the government, for whom she doesn’t work. The next question. Does it matter that Briskman didn’t intend to make a public, widely-distributed, attributed, personal attack on the president? That’s a fair question.
It might matter. But we have no right to privacy outside riding our bikes in public. But do we have a right to anonymity? Not really. If we’re in public and people recognize us, that’s one of the risks of doing things in public. Do we have a right to not be photographed? Same answer. Do we have a right to keep our likeness out of viral social media photos? It depends, but generally, no, not when we’re doing random things in public, especially in the context of a newsworthy event. So if you’re picking your nose in front of a building fire, and the newspaper catches your grossness and tweets the photo in the background of the fire, you lose. You could try to sue, but you’d likely lose.
The Washington Post is trying to make this issue into Trump-supporting boss against victim employee. None of that is relevant unless they can prove the company was just itching for a reason to fire Briskman and somehow, they knew the motorcade would roll down the road she cycles on. Maybe a well-placed call to the Secret Service engineered the whole event. Maybe the Russians influenced it.
Or maybe Juli Briskman learned a hard lesson about doing things in public in front of the presidential motorcade. You never know who’s filming. And another lesson about telling your employer you just did something that will make you a liability: find another job before you do.
The biker who flipped off President Trump is now out of a job – The Washington Post
Turns out it has now cost the 50-year-old marketing executive her job. On Halloween, after Briskman gave her bosses at Akima, 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.
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over reaction and total 100% bs
ANY and ALL citizens have the right to free expression
this was not at work
the employer is wrong and I hope she sues and wins
MAGA