I just watched a video that had me question some of my basic beliefs and became so riled up that I thought I might have to write something about what I watched. This is the crux of the story: A woman that worked for Burger King was fired for saying to a customer “Free Palestine”. What? Why on earth would she say anything like that to a customer? It turns out there’s more to the study and it’s being nuanced as a “free speech” issue. Watch the video here.

The content creator shows “both sides” of the issue by showing the customer’s account of what happened forst where he said the employee asked him where he was from and he told her “Israel”. At that point, according to him she said to him, “free Palestine” and even has her on camera saying that to him, again. The content creator was outraged and at first, so was I until I heard the entire story. The creator played the (former) employees side and that’s where I began to question what happened. It’s not that I necessarily believe the customer’s side, entirely, but the young woman, the employee, well, her story didn’t make much sense either. According to her, when she asked where he was from he said “New Jersey”. It was after that, according to her, the customer pulled out a necklace that had the Star of David represented and somehow said he was from Israel.

That’s when she said “free Palestine” to him. Now, I have no problem with people making political statements to anyone, except when they’re on someone else’s time. she was on Burger King’s time. When you work for someone else how you present yourself to the public reflects on the company. That’s right, when she’s behind the counter at Burger King, or whatever other public facing company she may work at, how she acts in front that public affects how people view the company. That’s right, it’s not “freedom of speech” when you make the people that pay you to serve the public, look bad to that same public.

This is not a “Jewish vs non-Jew” issue either as the content creator attempted to make it. What is really strange is the fat that there ws a “Go Fund Me” set up for the fired employee that is already over $200,000 dollars headed for a maximum for $250,000. Seriously, I think GofundMe should take this one down and refund the money to the donors. Again, there’s no wrongful dismissal problem here or guess what? lawyers would be lined up wanting to take the case on contingency to make her (and them) even richer. guess what’s not mentioned? That’s right. No attempt to sue for wrongful termination. Why? Because, when you work for someone else, you have no “right to free speech” when that same speech may affect that employers business, negatively.

Of course, this idiotic content creator is blind to that simple fact. I wonder why that might be the case?