Former CFO Now Unemployed, on Food Stamps After Viral Video

we have milk chicken ground beef Adam and Amy Smith are on their weekly grocery run in Portland Oregon there's free-range chicken we love your chicken and it's $5.99 we accept it Adam graduated at the top of his class in business school an ambitious and high flyer but now this father of four is shopping with

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Tomatoes, no, no, that's too much depending on the price, oh never mind, somehow it feels like he completely failed at 200 grand a year , you're on

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, yeah, my voice cracks. right now because I never thought I'd be there it's humbling that you're talking about your spectacular fall for the first time talking to us we were living in our dream home it was beautiful on 3 and 1/2 acres Smith lost that beautiful home in Tucson, Arizona, after he was fired from his job as CFO of a medical device manufacturer 2 and a half years ago, the reason for an infamous Internet incident sparked by nationwide protests at Chick-fil -A, now one of the most popular fast food chains in the country. is under fire this morning, you may remember that scandal broke when the president of the chicken chains took a public stance against same-sex marriage, confirming that the fast food chain is the new Ground Zero in the culture wars about gay marriage.

Consider Adam Smith a victim of that war. all because of a 2 minute and 20 second YouTube

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that started like this, well I'm waiting in line, I'm next in line, here I come. Smith's humbling experience wasn't caught on camera by someone else, no, he's the only person who put pressure on the Z people. You had to eat his anti-gay breakfast sandwich from Chick-fil-A. You filmed it yourself and then made the decision. Yes, you published it. I did it. Yes, we'll get back to Smith with the details of his cautionary tale in just a minute. minute listen press the sandb button we do it all the time without really thinking email text tweets selfies

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s to the world it can change life the end of the race just ask these people school bus driver posting a beer drinking selfie the woman who came to the office dressed as a victim of the Boston Marathon bombing and the mischievous tenth grade math teacher known as Crunk Bear who posts racy photos and conversations about drugs shot shot every time I think about hiring someone I go and collect their fingerprint digital from all sources i can get shark tanks Kevin oi is not alone, most companies which now include mine employ people who specialize in simply watching what happens across all platforms.

Remember PR executive Justine Sacko, she learned this the hard way when she tweeted that she was going to Africa. I hope I don't get AIDS. It's a joke. Am I right, yes, she is a PR executive and she chuckled to herself. This was in the airport press delivery. She says it was supposed to be a comment on White Privilege, but people didn't get the joke and the Tweet went

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while she was there. in the air heading to Africa, I had no idea that a hashtag started trending around the world, Justine still landed because everyone was so excited about Justine landing and realized that her life would never be the same again now with Adam Smith, who in the summer of 2012. decided to protest Chick-fil-A, what's wrong with Chick-fil-A?

In your mind, um, they donated to anti-gay groups, there were protests against and for Chickfila. Now Smith stood in line at his local drive-thru. There's a long line of cars too, I don't know if you can see it, but this is what happened amazing, you know why I'm getting free water because Chick-fil-A is a hateful corporation and then they got carried away. I don't know how you live with yourself and work here. I don't understand. This is a horrible Corporation with horrible values. You deserve something better. I got emotional and said things to the clergyman that you regret.

I don't regret the position he took. I took it, but I regret the way I spoke to him. I just can't stand the hate you know it's gotta stop it's gotta stop guys Smith pressed sand went to bed woke up went to work and the receptionist uh the first thing Big Eyes Adam did. What did you do? The voicemail is completely full and full of bomb threats. They asked you to resign. Yes, he refused and they fired him. He lost his six-figure salary and stock options worth more than a million dollars. My, my job, the money, that beautiful house, it's all gone, they had to downsize, there's no big house, there's no room for big toys, this is Sterling open, give everything we own to Goodwill, oh, you Easy Bake oven is one of your favorite toys we had. yeah, we had a jauz, you had a jacuzzi, what are you fishing for?

We are straying from the point. Smith quickly apologized to the clergyman he became angry with. I'm so sorry for the way I spoke to you, she has forgiven me. Forgive Adam Smith. I think he realizes what a bad decision it was to make that film, but apparently others didn't, so he got fired from a CFO job. Adam applied for another 1200 M Away in Portland Oregon, he got it, family had to move, but a job, a new start, hooray, I hesitate to even ask what happened next, it was 2 weeks on the job. They called me into the CFO's office and said you should have told us about the girl, a video, you're fired. so he started showing the video of the so-called chicken incident in job interviews to bring it into the public light rejection rejection rejection the constant rejection he has had from now on that has been really brutal wife Amy is now the breadwinner of the family this can sound silly but change your name dye your hair grow a different beard all the things that were recommended to me and some of those things I tried occasionally he would get an offer and then always a call or voicemail like this I just don't want this to be a distraction or any violent reaction, some of the others have expressed some concern Adam Smith, a self-made man, reduced to nothing, his children are even trying to find ways to get out of his hell, making a shark tank like tar, I was like, I'll do this, you do this, it's $15 $15 okay, we should put this on TV, so why would we do that?

Because we need money and to have food for our family. Adam's son Sawyer is a silver lining in all of this. You want me to have a full-time job. No, i do not do it. No, why not? Because I want him to play well, so this is the benefit that when he hasn't been working, he's been hanging out with you guys, that's good, right, most people eventually can and do leave the online faath. Justine Sacko of An Off-Color Joke About AIDS and Africa finally got another PR job, but not Adam Smith, it's been almost 3 years and he's still

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He turned to meditation and the wisdom of Buddha. I'm not a Buddhist. I just found that to be very helpful. He too. He sent us this video of him and his children dancing to the song Shake It Off ah the wisdom of Taylor Swift Shake It Off how long are they going to make you pay for a mistake? I don't know, yes I know when you watch it's the first time I don't know how you live with yourself and work here I don't understand it it feels like it just happened it will always be there I can't take it away