Fired for being stupid

Yesterday I wrote about Robert Paxton, who lost his job when pictures of him holding a mini-keg of beer over the head of a young woman on a boat were sent to the local paper and picked up by national media.
The young people were of legal drinking age, so should he have been terminated?
“The thing we struggled with was whether his personal life was, you know, his,” he said. “I think we all thought that was true. On the other hand, his position — I guess what you do in your personal life does affect the public’s perception of what …read more