Man Fired for Being a Brony

[shian]

[quote]An anonymous adult male fan of the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was until recently working a regular job to support his family and posted a blurb on Reddit.com to alert other like-minded adult fans of the show, called "bronies" (bro-ponies), that he was fired after admitting to his co-workers that he was a fan of the series. His employer told him that his interest in the show made others "uncomfortable", but the legality of the firing may be called in to question. Ironically, he told his story using very adult language which has been edited for this post. Here is his story, in his own words:

"So I've been a fan of MLP for a while and I think of myself as a fairly big fan, but I'm not one of those people who walk around with a shirt of Rainbow Dash 24/7. This is a culmination of a few things over the pas few months so let's get on with it. I'm a guy in his late 30s who works(or worked) a regular boring 9-5 Job. On my work computer I had decided to set a picture of Applejack as my desktop background, I figured it was no big deal, nobody would see it anyway and it was certainly no different than the other guys in my office using pics of their favorite sports teams or their cheerleading squads. Anyway a few weeks after having no issues with it I got called in by my boss who essentially tells me it's weird and it makes people uncomfortable that I have a "tv show for little girls as a background" (how did he know about it?) but I acknowledge this, keep my head down and change it back to the standard default background.
A few months later, it's take your child to work day. I bring my son in (he's more of a sports guy than me) and it's a good day. He talks with a couple of my co-workers (he's 10) about random sports stuff. My boss's daughter is 9 and she comes in wearing a Rainbow Dash shirt. As we were doing introductions, I told her I liked her shirt , something innocent the same way people go "those are some cool shoes" to a kid, nothing weird at all. After the day is done, my boss brings me into his office and confronts me about it, telling me again he thinks it's weird and to cut it out at work. I try to tell him it's no different than people pulling my son aside and talking about sports with him and stuff. But I oblige and for the next few months, didn't bring it up at all feeling now like my boss has it out for me.
Which brings us to this past week. On Wednesday, some of my co-workers were talking about it and Brony culture. I tried to talk with them about it and I subsequently got mocked. It was a few guys against me which I thought was weird as I don't make fun of the stuff they like, but all the sudden it's cool to make fun of a tv show I like? Then on Thursday somebody (or somebodies?) had told some more people in the office about it and people started making little jabs in the hallway about liking shows for girls and stuff, I did nothing to bring this s*** on, but they were letting me have it. Then yesterday my boss called me into his office, told me people were uncomfortable working with me (I do nothing but sit in my little hell-cube and do work all day, I hardly interact with anybody) and that they were going to have to let me go. WTF? Can they even fire me for that? I write this after contacting HR because I think that's bulls***. I did nothing at all and I get fired for talking about MLP.
Anyway, it's not all bad. The job was s***, I have some other opportunities already coming up that pay better, have better hours and better benefits. So thanks. And a F*** you Mr. Carter, you're the worst boss I've ever had in my years of working.
tl;dr: I brought up MLP 3 times over the course of a year and got fired for it, but I'll probably get a better job now thanks to it.[/quote]

[url]http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1041514[/url]

I never knew this could happen

[dong]

probably should have executed him instead

[Samg381]

Well, as much as I hate and detest the majority of the "brony" fandom, I really have to say that this is a bit ludicrous.

[Corn]

That's excessive

[Grenadiac]

justified

[sir whoopsalot]

Assuming for a moment that what he said is true, that it's just those 3 incidents.

That's a fucking terrible boss.

[Nullianac]

what a fucking douche of a boss

[Justjake274]

where did I just read this

LMAO pics?

[Orthodox]

Good riddance. Workplace is no place for immaturity.

[gooooooooooogle]

[QUOTE=Justjake274;42359230]where did I just read this

LMAO pics?[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.reddit.com/r/mylittlepony/comments/1nbhqw/whelp_i_got_fired_yesterday_for_being_a_brony/[/url]

[Dukov Traboski]

So he didn't even go around parading the fact that he likes it all the time like wearing shirts and stuff? And they fired him because he mentioned he liked the show once? Not only is that completely stupid but I also think that's not even allowed.

[Thomas45]

I saw the post on reddit and It doesn't have any evidence to support it, maybe it happened, maybe it didn't.

[MuThing]

That's pretty ridiculous.

[Curls]

This just sounds ludicrous.

but why the fuck would you have an applejack wallpaper or talk about "Brony culture". like, WHAT DO YOU GOD DAMN EXPECT.

[QUOTE=dong;42359198]probably should have executed him instead[/QUOTE]

Title because extensions

"Man Fired for Being a SS Officer"

yeah sounds reasonable

fucking SS officers!

[CheezMan]

Way to ruin your life by jacking off to cartoon horses and admitting it to your supervisors.

[MuThing]

[QUOTE=gooooooooooogle;42359241][url]http://www.reddit.com/r/mylittlepony/comments/1nbhqw/whelp_i_got_fired_yesterday_for_being_a_brony/[/url][/QUOTE]

Guh, offtopic but welp in this sense is spelt without the H. With it it becomes a completely different word.

[Helix Snake]

[QUOTE=CheezMan;42359268]Way to ruin your life by jacking off to cartoon horses and admitting it to your supervisors.[/QUOTE]

what the fuck is wrong with you people

[sir whoopsalot]

[QUOTE=J!NX;42359256]This just sounds ludicrous.

but why the fuck would you have an applejack wallpaper or talk about "Brony culture". like, WHAT DO YOU GOD DAMN EXPECT.[/QUOTE]

Getting fired doesn't exactly come to mind.

[DaysBefore]

I love how this is acceptable because he's a fan of something y'all don't like

[Curls]

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;42359315]Getting fired doesn't exactly come to mind.[/QUOTE]

to be fair getting made fun of is

I mean yeah even if you watch the show just take it and ignore it.

[MaxOfS2D]

[QUOTE=dong;42359198]probably should have executed him instead[/QUOTE]

I don't like most bronies either but this is an extremely dumb and insensitive thing to say.

[Curls]

[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;42359339]I don't like most bronies either but this is an extremely dumb and insensitive thing to say.[/QUOTE]

he was being sarcastic

way better than

[QUOTE=CheezMan;42359268]Way to ruin your life by jacking off to cartoon horses and admitting it to your supervisors.[/QUOTE]

which is [I]actually serious[/I]

[Major_Vice]

To be fair, it's pretty creepy when one of your 30 year old employees compliments your 10 year old daughter's clothes because they watch the same TV show.

I'm not saying it was a justified firing, but that would get under my skin.

[RaccoonBro]

[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;42359339]I don't like most bronies either but this is an extremely dumb and insensitive thing to say.[/QUOTE]

It's also called a joke? No need to get uppity about it.

[dong]

[QUOTE=J!NX;42359256]

Title because extensions

"Man Fired for Being a SS Officer"

yeah sounds reasonable

fucking SS officers![/QUOTE]

better than being subhuman brony filth

[Spazi]

[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;42359339]I don't like most bronies either but this is an extremely dumb and insensitive thing to say.[/QUOTE]

Really? Sounds like sarcasm.

[EmperorScorpious]

[QUOTE=Dukov Traboski;42359242]Not only is that completely stupid but I also think that's not even allowed.[/QUOTE]

Is allowed so long as they didn't fire him due to ethnicity, race, religion, gender, etc. or if he had a contract :v:

Also, I take CNN iReports with a grain of salt.

[Ajaxial]

I hate MLP and the majority of it's fans.

Having a joke and poking fun at a 30 year old for liking it is all well and good. But he didn't deserve to lose his job because of it.

[asteroidrules]

[QUOTE=Orthodox;42359237]Good riddance. Workplace is no place for immaturity.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Orthodox;42359237]Good riddance. Workplace is no place for blacks.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Orthodox;42359237]Good riddance. Workplace is no place for women.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Orthodox;42359237]Good riddance. Workplace is no place for gays.[/QUOTE]

You see the problem with this logic?

All the guy did was watch a TV show his boss didn't like.

[That Sprite]

let's play a game FP

spot the sarcasm from the genuine posts