What is it with people named Jared? This is Jared Porter who apparently was stalking a journalist while he was with the Chicago Cubs. I guess this is cancel culture except many of you who bemoan cancel culture will likely think he should have been fired.
Cancel culture?? Really. How about inappropriate, outrageous behavior from an adult? Do we have no values anymore without taking sides? Please stop the Insanity!!
Wait a minute, is that wrong?
this isn't a matter of cancel culture overreach, this is sexual harassment. Many people have lost their gigs for far less than sending a couple dickpix.
Jimmio wrote:
What is it with people named Jared? This is Jared Porter who apparently was stalking a journalist while he was with the Chicago Cubs. I guess this is cancel culture except many of you who bemoan cancel culture will likely think he should have been fired.
Umm, I have a hard time equating my dislike of cancel culture which is canceling someone whose viewpoint you disagree with to firing someone for sexually inappropriate behavior that likely was against his employer's rules. Employers having a code of conduct is not cancel culture.
Jimmio wrote:
What is it with people named Jared? This is Jared Porter who apparently was stalking a journalist while he was with the Chicago Cubs. I guess this is cancel culture except many of you who bemoan cancel culture will likely think he should have been fired.
0/10
Nothing to do with cancel culture.
This guys is borderline psychotic.
This is actually a pretty good example on how to draw the line between cancel culture and real accountability. If this guy had been cheating on his wife and sending dirty pics to some woman he was trying to have an affair with, it would arguably be cancel culture to fire someone for what was purely private bad conduct that was done off the clock.
But the GM of a major league baseball franchise is the face of the business side of the team and is expected to interact with the press in order to have the team seen in a favorable light in the community. His harassment of the reporter directly put the team's business in jeopardy. If you cannot fire that guy, who can you fire?
Precious Roy wrote:
This is actually a pretty good example on how to draw the line between cancel culture and real accountability. If this guy had been cheating on his wife and sending dirty pics to some woman he was trying to have an affair with, it would arguably be cancel culture to fire someone for what was purely private bad conduct that was done off the clock.
But the GM of a major league baseball franchise is the face of the business side of the team and is expected to interact with the press in order to have the team seen in a favorable light in the community. His harassment of the reporter directly put the team's business in jeopardy. If you cannot fire that guy, who can you fire?
+1
Precious Roy wrote:
This is actually a pretty good example on how to draw the line between cancel culture and real accountability. If this guy had been cheating on his wife and sending dirty pics to some woman he was trying to have an affair with, it would arguably be cancel culture to fire someone for what was purely private bad conduct that was done off the clock.
But the GM of a major league baseball franchise is the face of the business side of the team and is expected to interact with the press in order to have the team seen in a favorable light in the community. His harassment of the reporter directly put the team's business in jeopardy. If you cannot fire that guy, who can you fire?
Because the team feared cancel culture through their sponsors, it's a trickle-up effect. That's why he was fired instead of "disciplined internally" for something that happened off the clock and resulted in no criminal charges.
Primo Numero Uno wrote:
Jimmio wrote:
What is it with people named Jared? This is Jared Porter who apparently was stalking a journalist while he was with the Chicago Cubs. I guess this is cancel culture except many of you who bemoan cancel culture will likely think he should have been fired.
Umm, I have a hard time equating my dislike of cancel culture which is canceling someone whose viewpoint you disagree with to firing someone for sexually inappropriate behavior that likely was against his employer's rules. Employers having a code of conduct is not cancel culture.
Exactly. OP is a moron.
Yeah there's a difference between cancel culture (the angry mob full of nobodies trying to feel important) and deserving to be fired.
the media is corrupt wrote:
Primo Numero Uno wrote:
Umm, I have a hard time equating my dislike of cancel culture which is canceling someone whose viewpoint you disagree with to firing someone for sexually inappropriate behavior that likely was against his employer's rules. Employers having a code of conduct is not cancel culture.
Exactly. OP is a moron.
It is cancel culture and most of you are not very bright. Many of you deem it something else because you are intellectually dishonest and again not very bright. Educate yourselves.
steve the addict wrote:
Yeah there's a difference between cancel culture (the angry mob full of nobodies trying to feel important) and deserving to be fired.
And that difference is largely if you agree that the action deserves punishment or not. You think he should be fired? Justified. You don't think he should be fired? Cancel cultural. Where that line is pretty debateable. Send a dick pick to a random tinder girl and I am not sure if you should be fired. Send a dick pict to a subordinate and yeah you deserve to be fired. This is sort of in between as I haven't seen exactly what their relationship and influence would be like. And how far can you go back? Was Kavanaugh's creep behavior as a teen/college kid enough to disqualify him from public office or at some point do we overlook stuff that is 20 years in the past?
And for a board specific question: Would it be acceptable to fire some who posts racist stuff on letsrun? What about conspiracy theories? Would those be cancel cultural or deserving?
Can the Indians get Lindor back as a result of this?
You. But....not you. wrote:
Can the Indians get Lindor back as a result of this?
LoL
Are we actually having a debate about whether or not sending an unsolicited picture of your penis is a fireable offense? I hope to god this is trolling.
highhoppingworm wrote:
Are we actually having a debate about whether or not sending an unsolicited picture of your penis is a fireable offense? I hope to god this is trolling.
Nobody is saying it is NOT a fireable offense but you snowflakes need to understand that what one person deems reason for termination is cancel culture to another. You fragile snowflakes cannot have it both ways even though many of you likely go both ways.
highhoppingworm wrote:
Are we actually having a debate about whether or not sending an unsolicited picture of your penis is a fireable offense? I hope to god this is trolling.
So you are saying that everyone who has sent a dick pict in the past 4 years should be fired? From talking to my female friends, there are going to be a lot of unemployed guys out there:) What other private life stuff deserves firing in your book? Should every person who posts some racist cr*p on letsrun be fired? What about all the guys making fun of Rachel Levine appearence and making transphobic remarks in the her thread? Should every XC runner who made some homophobic comments back in HS be fired 20 years later for their insensitivity?
As I said this gets a bit more interesting than that as he might have a professional relationship with her (i.e her being a MLB reporter and him being a front office guy) which gets you into the stuff you can do in your private life but not at work area.
Young, well-hung Republicans wrote:
Precious Roy wrote:
This is actually a pretty good example on how to draw the line between cancel culture and real accountability. If this guy had been cheating on his wife and sending dirty pics to some woman he was trying to have an affair with, it would arguably be cancel culture to fire someone for what was purely private bad conduct that was done off the clock.
But the GM of a major league baseball franchise is the face of the business side of the team and is expected to interact with the press in order to have the team seen in a favorable light in the community. His harassment of the reporter directly put the team's business in jeopardy. If you cannot fire that guy, who can you fire?
Because the team feared cancel culture through their sponsors, it's a trickle-up effect. That's why he was fired instead of "disciplined internally" for something that happened off the clock and resulted in no criminal charges.
Hmmmm...no. He was fired because he did something wrong. There are many things a person can be fired for that do not require criminal charges. I suspect that sending unwanted nude photos or junk photos could be criminally prosecuted.
You know if his actions caused sponsors to say "we are taking our money elsewhere" then darn right he should be fired! He is costing the owners money.
Also, if a lawsuit arises, the Mets could be named. Firing him gives a judge a reason to toss them from the case. So yeah, that is a good reason to fire the idiot.
In a job like that, there are no "after hours". He is not some mill worker who clocks out at 5 every day.
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