Denver Weatherman Loses Job over Twitter Remarks about Nurses:

Orca, ADN, ASN, RN · May 9, 2019

On ‎5‎/‎4‎/‎2019 at 7:45 PM, Pambartow012806 said:
Yes his post is offensive to nurses...I get it. I dont like it, being a nurse myself. Him getting fired though, I do not agree with. He has the right to say what he wants.

Not on a company account. When he identified his negative remarks with his employer, that was the kiss of death.

buffalobilly · Jul 28, 2019

His employer is spineless. Right or wrong society is weak and offended at every little thing...time to get over ourselves people. Nurse, cops, insert occupation here, people are going to disapprove of one thing or another. Accept it.

Horseshoe, BSN, RN · Jul 28, 2019

3 hours ago, buffalobilly said:
His employer is spineless. Right or wrong society is weak and offended at every little thing...time to get over ourselves people. Nurse, cops, insert occupation here, people are going to disapprove of one thing or another. Accept it.

One could also say that employers don't have to employ people who make critical and controversial statements on their corporate accounts, which in some way, shape, or form, attaches those sentiments to the employer in the minds of the public. And that people who have a problem with this just need to "get over themselves and accept it."

buffalobilly · Jul 28, 2019

His comments were weak no matter how wrong people think he was. Sensitive insecure people are the only ones who 'go after' people like this. He showed disapproval of a few people from a specific group 'out loud' and so he paid the price. Poor decision making on his part cowardice on his employer.

Horseshoe, BSN, RN · Jul 29, 2019

Not cowardice, just sound business decision.

Asystole RN · Jul 29, 2019

18 hours ago, buffalobilly said:
His comments were weak no matter how wrong people think he was. Sensitive insecure people are the only ones who 'go after' people like this. He showed disapproval of a few people from a specific group 'out loud' and so he paid the price. Poor decision making on his part cowardice on his employer.

The dude has a public facing job where his primary responsibility is to make people happy and to be like-able, yes I said primary...the weather is strictly secondary.

Regardless of how people reacted to his post the fact is people did negatively react and there are a LOT of nurses. He violated his primary directive. Meteorologists are a dime a dozen and he was nothing special. If he cannot make the public happy someone else certainly will.

TriciaJ, RN · Jul 31, 2019

On 7/28/2019 at 4:52 PM, buffalobilly said:
His comments were weak no matter how wrong people think he was. Sensitive insecure people are the only ones who 'go after' people like this. He showed disapproval of a few people from a specific group 'out loud' and so he paid the price. Poor decision making on his part cowardice on his employer.

His employer had to make a business decision. His business will not be enhanced by being attached to inflammatory statements made by publicly visible employees.

He can always hire another meteorologist. The public can always get their weather report on another channel. The advertisers can buy their ad space elsewhere. There may even be a clause in the employment contract that was violated by the public remarks.

The television industry is a capricious one. There is no predictable benefit in taking a "courageous" stand and supporting an employee who wants to publicly trash an entire profession.

buffalobilly · Jul 31, 2019

I don't look into it the way everyone else is. I don't even see it as "courageous" to back an employee. To me it's just, "The guy don't like such and such...oh well". I'm just saying as a society we're offended at every move someone makes. I will be a nurse soon and don't care that this guy feels the way he does. People make comments many times worse than this every second. Yes the business can do as they please and fire the guy and he should never have opened his mouth. I'm 'just saying'...his comments were really nothing to lose sleep over even though before reading this article, I could've have reasonably predicted what was likely going to happen. Every time someone makes the hair on the back of our neck twitch we get triggered and run for our safe space.

Asystole RN · Aug 1, 2019

16 hours ago, buffalobilly said:
I don't look into it the way everyone else is. I don't even see it as "courageous" to back an employee. To me it's just, "The guy don't like such and such...oh well". I'm just saying as a society we're offended at every move someone makes. I will be a nurse soon and don't care that this guy feels the way he does. People make comments many times worse than this every second. Yes the business can do as they please and fire the guy and he should never have opened his mouth. I'm 'just saying'...his comments were really nothing to lose sleep over even though before reading this article, I could've have reasonably predicted what was likely going to happen. Every time someone makes the hair on the back of our neck twitch we get triggered and run for our safe space.

I understand your sentiment and even somewhat agree.

To be fair though, no one lost any sleep or even protested that I am aware of. People were slightly offended so took slight action such as Tweeting responses and using other social media avenues to show their displeasure.

Slightly offended thousands of people publicly on social media and you will get thousands of responses on social media, you get the attention you seek.

If for no other reason, this person should have been fired for sheer stupidity.