The viral video of a woman stealing a trash can and dumping out its contents after the Knicks’ victory has resulted in her termination. Angie Baez, 40, was the “Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce” for JPMorgan Chase. She was shown in a video dumping trash on the ground to steal a Knicks-colored trash can after the NBA Finals. JPMorgan apparently concluded that this was neither the publicity nor the type of Community Engagement they are seeking.
The videotape of the incident shocked many by Baez’s cavalier attitude, not just in stealing the trash can but in dumping out the garbage.
The New York Post later reported that the woman had been identified as Angie Baez. She previously served as “Executive Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” at The Infatuation, a website that reviews restaurants and neighborhood activities.
Once she was identified, JPMorgan Chase issued a statement, “This employee is no longer with the company.”
We have often discussed the difficult questions surrounding the termination of employees for speech in their private lives that is considered harmful to an employer. Whether it is conduct or speech, private companies often reserve the right to terminate any employee who brings negative attention to the company, even when they do not reference or display an association with the company. In today’s web-savvy world, it does not take long for motivated individuals to learn the identity and associations of public figures.
We have seen companies fire employees for drunken displays and abusing others in viral videotapes. There is little recourse in such cases, particularly for at-will employees.
In the case of Baez, she falls into the same category as Adam Smith (not the economist), who made a fool out of himself at a Chick-fil-A.
Is Lincoln’s Race War Finally Materializing?
“If these black soldiers of ours go back to the South, I am afraid that they will be but little better off with their masters than they were before, and yet they will be free men. I fear a race war, and it will be at least a guerilla war because we have taught these men how to fight… There are plenty of men in the North who will furnish the n—–s with arms if there is any oppression of them by their late masters.”
– Quote of Lincoln in “Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler: Butler’s Book”
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Parents in Brazil sentenced to prison for a homeschooling curriculum that didn’t teach radical gender ideology. Judge cited the fact that the kids like other kinds of music besides popular music as evidence that their education was deficient.
https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/americas/parents-sentenced-to-prison-in-brazil-for-homeschooling-and-excluding-gender-related-content
This is what real left-wing tyranny looks like. You educate your kids at home, and don’t try to make them into little communist soldiers, and you go to jail.
^An Archie Bunker who can’t compute new ideas. ^
Why do you want people to be protected from the government but not from private entities?
What are you, a kindergartener? Sheesh! Constitutional rights protect people from the government. The government has armies and people need protection from them, but private parties conducting business don’t. Moron.
Your contributions to human progress are quite something.
Why do you ask literally the stupidest questions ever cooked up by any moron no matter how stupid?
What you do off the clock on your own spare time is not the business of your employer.
The only way it could be is if you are their property.
You obviously don’t know anything about employment law, or business. So STFU
The law already forces them to associate with minorities that it might not want to associate with.
Why are some things protected while others are not?
Gee, I don’t know. You know, the sky is blue, but grass is green. Why are some things blue but others are not? Moron