Booby twit fired
We wrote several days ago about the “Booby Twits“, two Air Reserve airmen who for some reason felt the need to make some point that was completely lost on me about breastfeeding in public by posing for a picture in uniform while breast feeding their children. When last we checked in on them, they were silenced by their command. Now, we read that Crystal Scott, the program director of the Mom2Mom breastfeeding awareness group at Fairchild Air Force Base the brainchild of that photo was fired from her civilian job.
“She was fired due to her passion about the Mom2Mom breastfeeding campaign and speaking out on gender equality and women’s rights,” her lawyer, Patricia (Pat) K. Buchanan, told Yahoo! Shine in an interview on Friday.
No, actually, she was fired because she didn’t show up for her civilian job, didn’t complete time-sensitive tasks she’d been assigned, and the GPS in her company vehicle tattled on her when she went on company time to a media outlet instead of her work.
Yeah, I guess her lawyer was taken aback because it was not the Reserves who fired her, but civilians, so they’re filing a lawsuit for gender equality discrimination because of things that happened before she stole a company vehicle.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
So she has successfully proven that a preoccupation with breatfeeding interferes with an ability to do one’s job? Who’da thunk it.
Well I’m certainly preoccupied by it.
Now to convince a Social Security judge to award a disability pension based on breast..feeding.
So, this proves if you’re passionate about a subject, you can steal a company vehicle, as well as go and do something else on company time (while still receiving pay right?) and not have to face charges for Grand Theft Auto and Fraud.
If this was you or I, they’d throw the book at us for at least two felonies.
And so boob gate concludes.
What ‘hot issue’ will some members of the troop embrace next for self serving attention?
Fairchild AFB is in “The People’s Democratic Republic of Washington”, right? If so, that explains everything!
Heh…it’s hard to play coy when your GPS punks you out.
She deserved to get fired; the breastfeeding gig is s cop-out, but that’s what lawyers get paid for.
So, you just assume her boss is telling the truth and that she is lying? Based on what? Your obvious prejudice against her ‘behavior’? I know you don’t ‘get’ the purpose of the original photo, so I don’t expect you to understand but if you got told to take your newborn into a dirty bathroom to feed him, you might.
In addition, they did NOT say they were filing a lawsuit, they said, “That decision hasn’t been made yet, but it’s an option, certainly.”
Thanks for your time.
….and here we go…..
Guess my only remaining question is: Does breast feeding require disengaging brain cells? Guess we will never know because those who manage to do it without public displays or violating military regs are never known to us.
Same as before: If you want to be a civilian – don’t join the military. When you do join the military, don’t act surprised when you are called out for violating the regs.
Meanwhile, will all the whining civilians kindly STFU? This is a milblog. Civilians who only want to complain about military regs really don’t contribute anything to a milblog except comic relief.
That goes for those who want to complain about someone being fired from a civilian job for failing to do their job, committing fraud with their pay and company equipment, and such things, too.
grabs popcorn…
#7 Let’s see, hyphenated last name: probably drives either a Volvo or a Prius…but more likely the Volvo…either doesn’t have children herself or had them late in life because children would interfere with career…and most likely was a liberal arts major at a small to midsized private college, probably in sociology. How am I doing?
I think there’s a typo Jonn. It should have read: Booby Twat Fired
#11 I bet you hit the nail on the head. Probably too close to home for her to respond too.
Wow, I really hope #7 is a troll because if she’s not she has some major passive-aggresive issues…
@#11,one minor nit, her specific area of study had to have been women’s studies. Otherwise, I’m sure you are more than too close for her comfort with that outline.
Mrs. Mars,
So, you just assume her boss is lying and that she is telling the truth? Based on what? Your obvious bias FOR her ‘behavior’? I know you don’t ‘get it’ that thousands if not hundreds of thousands of women breast feed their babies without making spectacles of themselves and without having to go to “filthy bathrooms”. As for your,[In addition, they did NOT say they were filing a lawsuit, they said, “That decision hasn’t been made yet, but it’s an option, certainly.”] I play golf with two lawyers so I hear lawyer speak three Saturdays out of four. MY attorney has been a family friend for over 40 years so I’ve heard all the ‘it’s an option’, it’s under consideration’, ‘it’s a possibility’, etc., that means “We’re gonna sue the ever loving crap out of you. I’m sorry if you came here thinking we were all just a bunch of TBI grunts…oh, TBI is an acronym for “Traumatic Brain Injury” and “grunts” are infantry soldiers and Marines. In case you didn’t know.
Wilson-Mars: Forensic evidence is kinda hard to deny. And GPS timestamped location data qualifies as forensic evidence.
I did a google search on her name and she’s from Oregon (works for a newspaper?)…that should say enough about her, if its the same woman.
#9 OWB – No, breastfeeding/nursing does not disengage brain cells. When people do silly and/or stupid things, the brain cells were disengaged or never connected, prior to doing something silly and/or stupid. Ms. Wilson-Mars failed to review prior information before running off at the mouth.
And you’re right: women who have careers (and take them seriously) and don’t jam their mom-child bond in your face are unlikely to engage in rather ludicrous public displays of exhibitionism…which Ms. Scott DID do, and frankly, indicates to me that she’s more interested in showing off than she is in doing the job she was hired to do.
Gender equality? What a load of crap! If it’s about gender equality, what do guys get to do? Tell me.
I was going to take the time to put a really well thought out post but nah screw it. I hope she sues so her former employer can hire someone like my wife to destroy her lawyer in court. She just happens to be an activist who got fired for doing a crappy at her job, so what. Here is a crazy idea you want to be a poster child, be a poster child. Do your thing and show how effective you can be. Breastfeeding and the uniform is incompatable, you want you kid to have your milk pump. Out of uniform breastfeed all you want I don’t care.
I almost forgot this:
Babies develop baby teeth very quickly. When those teeth come in, the infants tend to bite and hang on tight. I do wonder if that silly woman will be quite so enthused about it when the kid calmps down on her anatomy and refuses to let go.
I think it’s appropriate to put this in the “look-at-me!!!” category and let it go.
come on guys, you could have at least posted the picture… I am sure they could have avoided all trouble with the Air Force if they’d just removed their uniforms for the pic.
(come on, I’m an old grunt)
@18, hey now I live in Oregun and I’m no hippie. 😀
Roller Dude it’s an illusion, they aren’t that nice if you notice they are using the kids to prop up their boobs and make them look better. Just sayin’ I’m just a dumb shovel grunt…
Margie, perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the expression, “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”
And driving around a government vehicle for personal business is high on the list of no-no shit. When I was in recruiting, “domicile-to-duty” without approval and a damn good reason for it would get you shitcanned, lose a stripe, some pay, and generally fuck you over royally.
Wasn’t gonna comment here again, for what should be fairly obvious reasons (grin), but several seem to be missing some of the details. The civilian (prior service) female is the one who was fired from her civilian employer. The military is not involved.
Still, civilian employers are allowed to make rules about the use of their company cars, fraudulent clocking in, lying about duty status, failure to produce a work product and such things.
Can a lawyer suggest that her involvement with the taking of these pics are what brought this employee to the attention of her employer? Well, yeah. So, what? Most any employer would react negatively to bad pub, and paying an employee for working a private deal on company time.
@19 Uh, change diapers,bottle feed baby,burp baby and the 2am rock and smoothe crying baby to sleep. Joe