Ron Franklin Fired

[RoadToad]

I don't buy the "political correctness" argument in this case. I know if I walked into a meeting at my workplace and started addressing my coworkers as, "A--hole," I'd probably get fired too, and rightly so. Why should anybody have to take that kind of crap?

[Tim_T]

Let me start by saying I am a huge Ron Franklin fan. Got a chance to spend some time with him at the Classic in Pittsburgh. he does a great job on football, fishing and NASCAR. All that being said, he screwed up and has to pay the price. You don't call your coworkers a-hole (at least to their face). Sorry, this is not a matter of politically correctness, this is a matter of human decency and respect.

[GeoFisher]

I don't buy the "political correctness" argument in this case. I know if I walked into a meeting at my workplace and started addressing my coworkers as, "A--hole," I'd probably get fired too, and rightly so. Why should anybody have to take that kind of crap?

I can GUARANTEE you'd also be fired for calling a peer or boss sweet baby......

[RoadToad]

OR if I came out and said half the things that go through my head when I'm on a call with some of those offshore guys from India...

[DJD]

I still don't believe a woman saying sweet baby to a man or calling him an ahole would get her fired. Maybe talked too or laid off but fired? Since when is a mistake like that worthy of losing your job??
Jeez you all are hard on a guy.
The POTUS can have sex with a woman in the whitehouse who is not his wife and lie about it and it's ok but a man makes a comment and it's ok to toss him to the side?
What harm was done? I wonder if he was even given the final attempt at making amends? We only know what they are reporting but I would never fire a person for something like this. That's just me I guess. I have made many mistakes and some foregiveness is nice once in a while.

[RoadToad]

There's a link in that article titled "didn't apologize to Edwards personally." He apparently was given the opportunity to apologize, but refused. And apparently he has a history of talking down to female sideline reporters, even on the air. The dude is an on-air personality; he's gotta know that if he makes the network look bad, they're going to let him go. That's just a fact of life, something you accept when you sign up for that kind of job. So, his mouth got him fired. That's show business. Something tells me his career isn't over.

Yes, forgiveness is nice, but there are two sides to that coin, the other one being remorse, and this guy showed none, in my book. The only apology he gave was to the viewers. If he were sincere, he would have apologized to Edwards personally. And yes, I do believe that if the situation were reversed, and she was calling him vulgar names at a production meeting, and didn't apologize to him for it, she probably would have been fired, too.

I guess it's worth noting that, at least according to her, she wasn't the one that reported the incident to management, it was someone else at the meeting.