Best Buy Employee "Outs" Straight Guy

[loc978]

...whatever happened to accepting the fact that bad shit happens?

I mean really, the guy gets his facebook page defaced and has to explain it to people.. and the person responsible loses his job. It happened, and it got taken care of. There are no save points in life. Move on, man.

Spoiler: or, to put it another way

 

[Furioso]

Should this guy worry about his reputation being tarnished? Probably not, and it will most likely become a funny story for him and the people he knows in the future. Did the employee deserve to get fired? FUCKING YES. I don't want to have to worry about employees I trust with my phone and/or computer getting in there and dicking around with who knows what, frankly the guy is lucky that he only messed with facebook, and I would take whatever legal action I could against the guy... probably wouldn't pull the reputation charge, but hey, his lawyers probably know a lot more than I do about winning cases

 

[Baldr]

Best Buy has very strict privacy policies. I bet Best buy pays out big to make this go away. They probably fired the employee and his/her manager.

 

[TriGGeR_HaPPy]

You're all really missing the point.

The guy handed in the phone to Best Buy, and the Best Buy employee abused his position. The customer was wronged, and there's nothing to "get over". This is the main point.

The details of homosexuality and whatnot are just the means.

Yeah, this. It not about what was put on his Facebook wall, the fact of the matter is that the employee used his position wrongly.

I agree that this lawsuit is still taking it just a bit too far since the employee was fired, but there have been much stupider lawsuits over smaller stuff before, so I'm not at all surprised.

Also, this:

He apparently isn't very fond of homosexuals.

"I feel I have been humiliated. My reputation has been tarnished," he said.

I like how you come to your own conclusion about someone's character by taking one quote and using it as your only source of evidence to back it up. Very neat.

*snip*

I watched the video, and it doesn't at all sound like "he apparently isn't very fond of homosexuals." It merely sounds exactly as he said, that he's just tired of explaining to people that he isn't gay.
Imagine if you're in his position, a straight male who apparently people would believe is gay when given the chance. Then a status pops up on your facebook saying you're gay. Sure, most people should understand that it's a "frape", others may take it more seriously though, and "tarnish" his reputation of being straight.

How he feels about homosexuals has absolutely nothing to do with it, he just doesn't want people to see him as one because he isn't one.

It's just like not wanting to be seen as a woman if you're a man (or vice versa). If you're one of those people who really cares what other people think of you, then if you're a man who other people keep saying acts like and is practically a woman, you wouldn't want to give any fodder to the claims (even if they're obviously untrue). It doesn't at all mean that you don't like woman, just that you're not one.
^ ^ ^ Really odd example, but I just woke up and couldn't think of a better one... ;>_>

EDIT: Of course, I also agree that some people just need to lighten up, because more often than not claims such as these are said purely because the person takes him/herself far too seriously. I'm just pointing out where I think he's coming from.

 

[Quaidis]

I don't understand the problem. Why doesn't he simply delete the message and post another one saying that he was facebook-jacked? Everyone will go, "Oooh...", have a good laugh about it, and go on living life.

Getting butt-hurt and threatening to sue seems a tad extreme.

 

[Aprilgold]

granted the best buy employee is a complete douchebag, especially doing that to someone you probably don't even know

however, simply saying "that wasn't me, phone was used by someone else, i'm not gay" is pretty dang easy....seeking legal issues? you kidding me? you must live in some very very strange world, as that is almost offensive in itself to take that much offense to it, regardless.

I don't know man, he may have known a bunch of religious nut-jobs, hell, there was a story on Reddit earlier today about a black-supremist-jew who saw his son, which is one of 9 I believe, smack another on the ass. The kid is 4 years old, and what did he do? Well he picked up a fire arm, played some very loud prayer music in the garage, shot the boy in the head and then told the mother. Who is essentially his slave to put it in a suitcase and hide it. I'd like to note he is / was essentially a cult leader, with 4 wives to boot.

Believe it or not, this could have either threatened future employment, his friends or family or anyone he has a known association with. Coming out is a emotional thing and having to fix it is almost like yelling you have cancer but it was only a joke. And if the dude didn't have his phone then he very well couldn't have fixed it in day one, so he would have been oblivious to it until his next shift, then he would have to answer to the texts, phonecalls and facebook messages. One day is twenty four hours, which is quite some time. Plenty of people would have saw the post and it wouldn't be like he saw it in less then a minute and fix it, where only his dog saw it, no, it would have had enough time to sink into peoples brains.

Once again, there are places in the world that essentially mentally beat up children if they did something wrong in the eye of the lord. Whether it be getting raped, homosexuality, or even being suicidal, they will mentally and physically beat them up over things that are either out of their hands or caused by what their trying to fix. I doubt that just because you friends are cool with Homosexuality and vice versa doesn't necessarily mean his family or his friends are.

I dunno, not everyone LIKES the idea of other people they know thinking they take dicks up the ass.

Remember that not all homosexuals take it up the bum because there is always someone who has to give them the thing going up their bum.

 

[The Hungry Samurai]

Still amazed at how many people think that this guy not wanting people to think that he is gay = homophobia.

If I went around calling openly gay people straight, they have all the right in the world to be pissed. Do people have their politically correct heads so far up their asses that this guy can't defend his identity without being treated like a monster?

How about some hate for the best buy douche using implied homosexuality as an insult instead?

 

[Canadamus Prime]

This is hilarious.

Not because of the prank itself but the fact that Facebook has grown so huge that it can apparently affect your entire life to this extent.

Another reason why I don't bother with the damned parasite.

That's not funny, that's fucking terrifying. This combined with that other story about the guys getting fired for "liking" something on Facebook, just make me want to continue to stay a million billion kms away from Facebook at all times.

 

[Knight Templar]

You do realize that he never actually said that, and that line is in the story out of a complete lack of journalistic integrity, right?

"He apparently isn't very fond of homosexuals" was never even presented as a quote, I never said I thought it was a quote.

No, but it seems you're more than willing to hold it against him.

Is this going anywhere?

I don't see what your point is.

 

[Dastardly]

It's one thing to dismiss it as a harmless joke when a friend of yours does this. It's like when one of my buddies calls me a dickface or something. Now, a complete stranger walking up out of the blue and calling me a dickface? That's something completely different, regardless of how I might choose to respond.

Also, it's unfair to cast the guy as a homophobe. The situation is embarrassing. And when something like this happens, on something as relatively public as Facebook, I'd like to see anyone avoid taking it a little extra-seriously at first.

Let's say you walk out of a public restroom and walk around with your fly open for half an hour. Then you realize it was open, after everyone in the world had the chance to see it. In reality, very few people probably noticed... but you feel like everyone did. In reality, it's not a world-ending mistake... but you feel like you were strutting around naked.

I'm not sure I understand the desire to turn this around on the victim of the prank, or to write him off as over-reacting.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

Caught between a rock and a hard place (huh huh, hard). On the one hand, he wants something for nothing. On the other, he doesn't want to come off like a bigot or homophobe.

 

[Knight Templar]

I'd say that's your failing, and not mine..

I wasn't saying it was anyone's failing, I just wanted you to explain.

Can you stop dancing around and just tell me what you're going on about?

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

While that would be embarrassing to see that on my facebook (i've had it happen once before) there is a bit of a simple solution:

1. delete said status message

2. make another status explaining it and move on leaning a valuable life lesson about remembering to log out of the BookFace

While it could be appropriate to take potential legal action for the Best Buy Guy using a customer's phone for a prank the reasons given at present are kind of silly.

 

[Eleima]

I feel he should've used the Seinfeld approach:

 

[Urameshi13]

I don't get where the author and some commenters are just declaring this guy to be a homophobic douchebag. Other than the usual "I am a denizen of the internet and must have a definitive opinion on everything ever" inanity.

He's probably just a regular guy who doesn't appreciate some Randal Graves wannabe messing with his stuff. Lest we all forget, what that Best Buy employee did is a felony in some areas.

 

[Roboto]

granted the best buy employee is a complete douchebag, especially doing that to someone you probably don't even know

however, simply saying "that wasn't me, phone was used by someone else, i'm not gay" is pretty dang easy....seeking legal issues? you kidding me? you must live in some very very strange world, as that is almost offensive in itself to take that much offense to it, regardless.

Any excuse to take best buy down is a good one to me. Maybe they'll grant an attorney with extended warranty if he pays an extra 150$.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

granted the best buy employee is a complete douchebag, especially doing that to someone you probably don't even know

however, simply saying "that wasn't me, phone was used by someone else, i'm not gay" is pretty dang easy....seeking legal issues? you kidding me? you must live in some very very strange world, as that is almost offensive in itself to take that much offense to it, regardless.

I don't know man, he may have known a bunch of religious nut-jobs, hell, there was a story on Reddit earlier today about a black-supremist-jew who saw his son, which is one of 9 I believe, smack another on the ass. The kid is 4 years old, and what did he do? Well he picked up a fire arm, played some very loud prayer music in the garage, shot the boy in the head and then told the mother. Who is essentially his slave to put it in a suitcase and hide it. I'd like to note he is / was essentially a cult leader, with 4 wives to boot.

Believe it or not, this could have either threatened future employment, his friends or family or anyone he has a known association with. Coming out is a emotional thing and having to fix it is almost like yelling you have cancer but it was only a joke. And if the dude didn't have his phone then he very well couldn't have fixed it in day one, so he would have been oblivious to it until his next shift, then he would have to answer to the texts, phonecalls and facebook messages. One day is twenty four hours, which is quite some time. Plenty of people would have saw the post and it wouldn't be like he saw it in less then a minute and fix it, where only his dog saw it, no, it would have had enough time to sink into peoples brains.

Once again, there are places in the world that essentially mentally beat up children if they did something wrong in the eye of the lord. Whether it be getting raped, homosexuality, or even being suicidal, they will mentally and physically beat them up over things that are either out of their hands or caused by what their trying to fix. I doubt that just because you friends are cool with Homosexuality and vice versa doesn't necessarily mean his family or his friends are.

I dunno, not everyone LIKES the idea of other people they know thinking they take dicks up the ass.

Remember that not all homosexuals take it up the bum because there is always someone who has to give them the thing going up their bum.

that is a very extreme case you pointed out, as that shit gets plastered everywhere when something so horribly illogical happens. I've seen this happen to people i know (derp via facebook status's) and a solid 90% of the time people know it's either a hack or a joke, if his friends/family are that gullible to believe some random status post (or let himself get so worked up about it) then they really need to wake up and take a good whiff of the 21st century.

and while i'm not saying you don't have a point, because you do, let's remember this is Denver Colorado we are talking about here, not some random hick town out in the middle of nowhere or another random country still stuck in 3rd world mode (no offense is meant by that), so the expectations are quite different and for him to honestly sue to win money over it (the guy was fired, that is more than enough justice served) is quite absurd.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

granted the best buy employee is a complete douchebag, especially doing that to someone you probably don't even know

however, simply saying "that wasn't me, phone was used by someone else, i'm not gay" is pretty dang easy....seeking legal issues? you kidding me? you must live in some very very strange world, as that is almost offensive in itself to take that much offense to it, regardless.

Any excuse to take best buy down is a good one to me. Maybe they'll grant an attorney with extended warranty if he pays an extra 150$.

curious, what exactly did best buy do that's deserved as much hate that wal mart gets? perhaps i've missed something recently..

now i'm not saying the guy shouldn't have gotten like a free warrant or phone out of it, but still, actively pursuing a sue when the guy was fired after found out what he had done/been doing, yeah that is decent justice.

 

[Aprilgold]

that is a very extreme case you pointed out, as that shit gets plastered everywhere when something so horribly illogical happens. I've seen this happen to people i know (derp via facebook status's) and a solid 90% of the time people know it's either a hack or a joke, if his friends/family are that gullible to believe some random status post (or let himself get so worked up about it) then they really need to wake up and take a good whiff of the 21st century.

and while i'm not saying you don't have a point, because you do, let's remember this is Denver Colorado we are talking about here, not some random hick town out in the middle of nowhere or another random country still stuck in 3rd world mode (no offense is meant by that), so the expectations are quite different and for him to honestly sue to win money over it (the guy was fired, that is more than enough justice served) is quite absurd.

While sewing is extreme, and I'm not arguing against that, doesn't mean that it isn't out of the question. He could sue the person for the written version of slander which I can't remember the term for at the moment if it actually caused some real trouble for the man. Hell, it is a felony in multiple places, so he could still very well make that guys life a living hell.

But on topic once more, just because a state is nice doesn't mean that terrible shiz doesn't happen in it. Germany is a nice place but lest we forget that is the place where a dictator decided to kill all the Jews and rose to power. He may have been friends with very highly religious people, and since this is America, most likely insane Catholic people who most likely think that Homosexuality is not only a sin, but a plague that can be vaccinated.

As I said earlier, as well as many others, Facebook profiles can be seen by everybody and certain people will want certain things from a worker. Could have lost a buisness oppurtunity if he was looking for a new job and the dude who was manager there saw his profile, saw he was gay and said no. I can't work at Mcdonalds and rant about how much Mcdonalds is a terrible place without at least raising one eyebrow in the work place. I can't be a priest and go onto my Facebook account and say how much I love to rape children without getting slapped in the face while teaching prayer to said children.

Yes, extreme it may seem, but I wouldn't be honestly surprised if he had to seriously walk people through that he is in fact not gay. Just because your circle of friends are either indifferent or don't care about homosexuality doesn't mean all of his are the same.

Coming out is, once again, a emotional thing, and I wouldn't be surprised that after telling them that he didn't post it they thought he was trying to jump back into the closet, thus they do the thoughtful thing and try to lure him out, and after much talking they get that he was in fact telling the truth about not being homosexual.

 

[Roboto]

granted the best buy employee is a complete douchebag, especially doing that to someone you probably don't even know

however, simply saying "that wasn't me, phone was used by someone else, i'm not gay" is pretty dang easy....seeking legal issues? you kidding me? you must live in some very very strange world, as that is almost offensive in itself to take that much offense to it, regardless.

Any excuse to take best buy down is a good one to me. Maybe they'll grant an attorney with extended warranty if he pays an extra 150$.

curious, what exactly did best buy do that's deserved as much hate that wal mart gets? perhaps i've missed something recently..

now i'm not saying the guy shouldn't have gotten like a free warrant or phone out of it, but still, actively pursuing a sue when the guy was fired after found out what he had done/been doing, yeah that is decent justice.

Let's go down the list in no particular order:

1. IN STORE (not always online) overpricing of goods compared to certain retailers
2. Odd representation of computer parts that they do sell
3. Do you need help? How about now? Can I help you with something? Do you need anything? Has somebody been with you yet? GO AWAY!
4. Black Friday! 200$ 40" TV! In every catalog out a 50 mile radius! Oh yeah, there are only 5 of them. And they all went out to the 5 people who camped for a week.
5. We now offer a 2 year protection plan on those paperclips you purchased. It will be 50$. Let me tell you all about it before we move on to the transaction.
6. Play Station firmware incident
7. Geek Squad and most of its functions
8. How about now? Are you sure?
9. Computer section: we now sell one of the most painfully outdated video cards at full retail and wrapped in one of those thief-proof buzzer alarm things. It must be powerful!
10. Because we have this new TV that...*blam*
11. Dynex
12. Something else about the game section, but I cannot visualize it now because my mind's eye defaults back to the Microcenter game section in self defense.