Ex-CFO Who Slammed Chick-fil-A Lives on Food Stamps (lost his $200K+ job)

[raykeller]

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Ex-CFO Who Slammed Chick-fil-A Lives on Food Stamps (lost his $200K+ job)
newser ^ | Mar 28, 2015 | Neal Colgrass

Posted on Sunday, March 29, 2015 9:18:22 PM by sickoflibs

(Newser) - Things haven't gone too well for the former CFO who criticized
Chick-fil-A in a video he posted on YouTube. Unable to find lasting work,
37-year-old Adam Smith is living on food stamps with his wife and four kids
in the RV they call home, he tells ABC News. "I think people are scared,"
Smith says of potential employers. "I think people are scared that it could
happen again." Back in the summer of 2012, as thousands of people were
opposing Chick-fil-A's stance on gays, Smith rolled into a Chick-fil-A
drive-thru for a free glass of water and slammed the female attendant:
"Chick-fil-A is a hateful corporation," Smith told her as the filmed the
exchange. "I don't know how you live with yourself and work here. I don't
understand it." Smith posted the video before returning to work at Vante, a
Tucson-based medical manufacturer-and the proverbial you-know-what had hit
the fan by the time he got there.

The receptionist told him "the voicemail is completely full, and it's full
of bomb threats," he says. Fired that day, Smith lost his $200,000 salary
and more than $1 million in stock options. He and his family moved to
Portland, where he got a CFO job, but lost it two weeks later when they
realized who he was. He says he has since been honest in interviews, but
companies have been too wary of fallout to hire him. "I don't regret the
stand I took, but I regret. the way I talked to her," an emotional Smith
says of the worker. He interview coincides with his recent digital release
of a memoir, A Million Dollar Cup of Water (a paperback version is out April
21), which chronicles his professional collapse and years of soul-searching.
It's not faring so well on Amazon, which Smith addressed on the site on
Friday. "Regarding the many 1-star ratings my book has received today and
yesterday, I would like to note that I have only sold 17 digital copies thus
far, yet there are 23 1-star ratings on my book. This fascinates me! LOL!"



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[Gunner Asch]

Oh gee..then such buffoonery is not shared by the majority of
Americans from the looks of it. While Im not a Christian...Id have no
problem with this dickhead dying in a ditch somewhere, cold, alone and
starving to death.

You fuck up...you got to pay for it sooner or later..and those at such
high positions have a very..very long way to fall.

Shrug

Gunner

[BeamMeUpScotty]

I think this Liberal needs to apply for a job at Chick-fil-A working at
the drive through.....