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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Toronto Man Fired After He Tries to Justify Vulgar TV Remark

2015-05-13

[ABCNEWS.GO] A Toronto engineer lost his job Tuesday after a social media firestorm was created by a female TV news hound who fought back against offensive and vulgar comments that disrupted her live interview.
Back when I was a tad gents didn't use bad language around women. They didn't even use that much around each other. That was called... oh, what was that word? Oh. "Manners."
Ontario's largest electricity provider, Hydro One, issued a statement saying it has fired one of its employees in connection with the lewd disruption Sunday at a Toronto FC game. In the video, CityNews news hound Shauna Hunt is shown confronting and questioning the men who shouted lewd remarks into her microphone and defended it as part of popular trend.

A Hydro One official identified the employee as Shawn Simoes, but spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to name him for privacy reasons. Simoes is shown in the video using an expletive and calling his friend's remark hilarious before telling the news hound she is lucky they didn't have a vibrator.

Posted by:Fred

#4 He didn't belong to the right union.

Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-05-13 12:12

#3 I don't know, it SOUNDS like the guy was off duty, ie, not working, when he made the lewd comments. He was at a sporting event. I'm not in favor of anyone shouting obscenities, period, but the proper penalty seems to be what the Maple Leafs sports team did -- banning him from all of their games for a year, not being summarily fired from his job.

His employer is Hydro One, an electrical utility, owned 100% by the province of Ontario, so this is, explicitly, a political reaction.

As much as I hate to claim that shouting obscenities should be protected under freedom of speech, I believe the media firestorm that erupts whenever a black/Democrat/feminist/Muslim is insulted/assaulted/killed is intrinsically (and deliberately) unfair.

I have trouble believing that he would have been punished in any way if he'd made the same kind of remarks to a (white) man. Then it would have just been considered 'poor taste', and ignored. But since he attacked a member of a 'protected class' he was given exemplary punishment. Just like back in the middle ages, if a peasant insulted an aristocrat.

Posted by: dlr 2015-05-13 08:08

#2 Lesson learned: second class citizens should watch their mouths.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-05-13 01:27

#1 Potty mouth = job gone. Civil mouth = job kept.
Was a lesson learned here? Perhaps the self-destructive, potty mouthed, attention seeking "engineer" may actually obtain some maturity from the whole episode. But I doubt it.

Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2015-05-13 00:58

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