Phillies' "Pistachio Girl" Fired For Being A White Nationalist

[bluedigger]

Source: Deadspin

Emily Youcis, better known as “Pistachio Girl” at Philadelphia Phillies games, has been fired from her vendor job by Aramark, because she couldn’t stop supporting white nationalism online.

Pistachio Girl was known for her distinct singing as she hawked concessions, even after the park stopped selling pistachios:


Via Philly.com, Aramark released a statement explaining that Youcis was fired for “publicly connecting our company to views that contradict our values.”

Youcis appeared in a video of a Nov. 19 anti-fascism protest of white supremacist Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. She walked around with a microphone and asked if anyone wanted to have a discussion; a brief fight broke out near her but nothing else really happened. That probably had to do with her termination. It probably also had to do with how she tweets about the white race being threatened:



Read more: http://deadspin.com/phillies-pistachio-girl-fired-for-being-a-white-natio-1789696359

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It's hard to be a Nazi in public.

[groundloop]

1. Of course her knuckle-dragging friends will complain about her 1st Amendment rights being violated

(which of course they weren't)

[mike_c]

5. call me a knuckle dragging union man....

If this happened where I work I would fight it all the way to arbitration. Sheesh.

[groundloop]

15. Totally different situations. She was paid to portray a public image for her employer.

I'm guessing you're paid to show up and put in an honest days work.

[Shoonra]

31. I don't think you give up your 1st Amendment rights for peanuts

This girl didn't bring her politics or personal animosities into her stadium job. It took someone a little detective work to tie her off-post political expressions with her job identity to get her fired. Somehow this is morally different from the Hollywood blacklist.

Now, of course, she is a martyr for the Alt-Right, and they will blame their usual enemies for her misfortune. And maybe some friends of hers who hadn't shared her animosities will now also adopt the same hostilities. All in all, not a good thing.

Instead of meeting hate with love, we met it with more hatefulness.

[heaven05]

37. I's been meetin hate with love

for a couple of generations now, ain't made a damn bit of difference. In fact things for PoC have gotten worse and about to worsen more. Love? Oh hell no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I glad that racist clost her job. Yeah be a martyr for a week, may even get one of those money sites set up for the consequence of being a racist, she might even get rich for being a racist. Hate for hate, stare for stare, hateful name for hateful name, bullet for bullet is what it is down to now.

[heaven05]

36. you damn right

she can be a fucking racist POS all she wants....fuck those brown people....right?

[melman]

40. That's cheap and shitty

In no way did he say "fuck those brown people".

[Scurrilous]

2. Nailed it!

Canmon

12/05/16 3:57pm

Nutjob Loses Nut Job

[Feeling the Bern]

3. I think you're a nazi baby. You might be a nazi!

[mike_c]

4. let's just bring back black lists and witch hunts....

I can't believe anyone would condone terminating someone's employment because of their personal beliefs, no matter how we disagree with them. As long as they don't impede their job performance, employers should stay out of employee's lives. I'm a union officer in my workplace, and I would fight tooth and nail to reverse this decision if it happened where I work. I can't believe DUers condone this.

[Nwgirl503]

7. Lots of employers have employee conduct clauses

She probably violated one or more of those clauses. Also, isn't Philadelphia an at-will state? And I don't think her employer is unionized.

When you are a recognizable face or name attached to an organization, which even though I've never heard of her, apparently she was, the bar is set even higher I would assume. Getting into a brawl that ends up all over the news with the name or place of your emplyment attached is stretching it pretty far in her "personal life being her personal life" defense IMO.

[Aristus]

8. Like it or not, her off-duty behavior reflects upon her employer for good or ill.

A private company has a right to terminate her based on her public behavior.

If she worked at a soup kitchen or rescued kittens from tree-tops, her employer would no doubt publicize this as a way of reflecting well on them (look who we hired!). But since she's a white supremacist, she has no one but herself to blame.

[lonestarnot]

20. Could we get an Indiana Jones Nazi flamer over here!

[PSPS]

18. LOL. "Union officer?" Read the union contract.

There are a couple of items that make this person's behavior indefensible:

1. She's apparently a local celebrity figure (i.e., widely known in the local area.)

2. According to the OP piece, she "couldn't stop" publicly proclaiming her white supremacist views, which implies that she was warned to stop doing it, at least publicly.

It's #2 that closes the book on this. Every union contract I've worked under clearly states that any behavior, on or off the job, that reflects negatively on the employer is grounds for termination, especially if it continues after being warned about it.

I'm glad my union dues weren't paying your salary.

[heaven05]

38. Yeah I was a union steward

for years. I had to fight management and union hypocrites like the "union officer". They can be very racist also, under the cover of union official. Big problem in some unions, for years.

[mike_c]

42. you have no idea....

Really? My union is one of the most progressive in the country. We are committed to racial and social justice.

Check it out: http://www.calfac.org/

[IronLionZion]

24. First they came for the white nationalists

and there was no one left to come for the rest of us.

Public actions are not personal beliefs. Public actions and media attention to one's public actions can impact the business. People have been fired for supporting terrorism and hate groups and other similar nonsense. It's completely different from being fired for being Italian or being a white male.

[geek tragedy]

25. When the job involves representing the company in its dealings

with the public, being a Nazi does impede her ability to do the job.

[elmac]

6. Ok, I watched the video

I would pay her to sing somewhere else, like in the next county.

[Island Blue]

9. The people sitting in the stands around her

appeared to be thinking the same thing.

[lastlib]

21. Or at least buy her nuts to get her to go away?

Yeah. That.

[Travis_0004]

10. Slow news day?

A stadium vendor gets fired and it makes the news?

[Scurrilous]

22. Nazi (and proud of it) stadium vendor.

And she owned that stadium...

[bluedigger]

23. Yeah, well, they can't all be murderous food fights.

[LanternWaste]

26. Could be the cause of the termination is the fulcrum of the story

Could be the cause of the termination, in regards to a generally perceived upswing in racial animosity, is the fulcrum of the story, rather than a termination in and of itself.

Slow brain days happen too...

[Quackers]

11. Is it just me, or does she resemble that nazi chick from American History X? nt

[awoke_in_2003]

35. Yep

Fairuza Balk is her name.

[ck4829]

12. Enjoy being unemployed in Trump's America.

[world wide wally]

14. They should have fired her for being obnoxious

[Jeffersons Ghost]

16. K&R

[Grassy Knoll]

17. Isolated Incident #8888....

[Tommy_Carcetti]

27. Honest mistake. People thought she was saying "Peanuts!".

When in actuality, she was saying, "I'm nuts!"

She does keep good company:

[underpants]

28. She's a nut!

Paraphrasing Barnie Fife.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

29. A crappy failed artist who's obsessed with fascism?

Who would have thunk it?

[underpants]

30. Hate when that happens

[progressoid]

33. Ah jesus. I had to google that.

Couldn't quite remember that punchable face.

Shouldn't he be getting a cabinet position soon?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

34. Head of the FDA, I'm guessing. nt

[Cracklin Charlie]

32. Hard being a Nazi in public?

That's why the Klan wore those ridiculous hoods.

[heaven05]

39. besides being a racist pig

she's just really annoying with that singing. God!!!!!