Be Careful Out There: The Beautiful Kind Got Someone FIRED
Filed under: Vexed - July 3, 2008 @ 1:00 pmCheck this out, dear readers:
Dear Beautiful,
ha ha, you will love this, my husband is a security guard and two valets walked in talking about the gay pride parade and going to the strip club. He told them that we would be there and hopefully they would run into each other. Then he told them that they should check out your website sometime.
They Loved It and the next day told his boss that he should check out the website that he told them about. Well, he got called into the office and was fired for solicitation of sex! So, my husband has been fired over your web page, just for mentioning it. He said that at least it was worth it.
Wow. And here I get annoyed every time I hear my site is blocked at someone’s place of work. Hell I even heard it’s blocked at St. Louis Bread Co.
I also hear that a lot of people have a ritual of reading it first thing when they get into the office, before other people arrive. I’ve also heard some people save it til the end of the day as a reward for a hard day worked. However you handle your TBK habit, be careful with it. Let this be a lesson.
Meanwhile, I think this guy is going to find a job where he can talk about my website, like as a bouncer at a strip club. His wife told me they hang out there enough anyway, he might as well get paid to do it instead of doing all the paying out!
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
If he does get a job there, we three should go to visit him and compliment him on being such a good sport!
I look forward to meeting this guy.
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:48 pm
the american red cross still loves you!
i read tbk in the morning after i get myself a nice cup of chamomile tea. i find it’s a good way to start the day.
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:21 pm
i don’t see how showing your boss a website that speaks of sex, is equivalent to SOLICITATION OF SEX. last i heard sex was when you put a penis in a vagina, or mouth or etc etc….and i don’t think he was soliciting that.
fuck em if they can’t handle you…thats my motto….
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:33 pm
That’s totally un-American. What are we celebrating tomorrow?? Freedom, I thought. Apparently that doesn’t include expressing the thoughts in your own head. WTF??!!
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Thanks Beau, My husband and I were sent into shock over something as simple as this. But on the other hand if he gets the job at the strip club maybe he can bring one of the girls home to be our third
Oh, and Reverend-Lion: They said that it was Solicitation of Sex bc he was giving out a web page devoted to sex to other employees of the building, thus, he was making a sexual move and was terminated. Bull$hit.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Hmmm…now I know why I read TBK at home with my morning coffee. It’s fun to go in to the office all hyped up on caffeine and sex talk and knowing it’s my dirty little secret…hehehe…makes for a great day!
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Seems to be going around. I’ve been at my place of employment for just over 13 years (yikes!) and a few weeks ago out of the blue they started blocking sites!!!
They didn’t get the pleasure of blocking TBK’s site ’cause I refrained from visiting once I discovered they blocked USAToday.com and my local news station here in Orlando.
USAToday.com? Are you f**king kidding me?
July 4th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Not to put too fine a point on it but anyone who thinks that just because they look at something on the web at work when no one else is around that the boss or the company won’t know about it, they’d be wrong. Many companies, (the larger ones especially) log all their employees web activities at work–EVERYTHING you do online on a work computer can be seen days, weeks, months and years after you’ve done it. This includes, email, message boards and web sites. Some companies even do daily scans of computers and log what files you might be saving. This isn’t illegal, in fact publicly traded companies are required to do some of this by law. Also courts have ruled that you have no expectation of privacy when using a work computer. I know of at least 2 people who lost good jobs for looking at what was regarded as “questionable content” online, sites more tame than this blog.
I’m not saying this is right, fair, or that I agree with it. I’m just saying as a fair warning that you have no privacy at work.
July 5th, 2008 at 10:12 am
bill:
My husband wasnt fired for looking at the website, he knows that they can check that stuff on the computer, he mearly told someone about it, that is why he was fired!
July 16th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Telling someone about this website at best could be construed as sexual harrassment, but not solicitation. If it weren’t such a pain in the ass, I’d tell you to have him contact an attorney. I will be starting law school in August and well, if I already had my degree, I’d file a suit free of charge!
People are just too uptight these days!!! So many “politically correct” notions. Life is just too damn short to go about it by simply placing one foot in front of the other. Sometimes you just need to veer off the beaten path every now and then.
If your husband does get that job as a bouncer, any where, not just the strip club, be sure to let us know! I’ll buy him a drink once he’s “off the clock” so as to not be encouraging on the job drinking of course!!!!!