Cardinals Director of Security fired

[Brian Walton]

Over “hurtful” language on call with StL businesses.

https://www.stltoday.com/sports/professional/mlb/cardinals/cardinals-fire-security-chief-for-hurtful-language-on-call-with-st-louis-businesses/article_2bee494a-7362-11ee-84da-af29e4aadb3b.html

[blingboy]

Maybe he used the wrong pronouns.

[bicyclemike]

Got to be above reproach in your words. I saw a fellow department member fired a few years ago for language used in an email. It was the same way as this – no warning, no probation period – just an immediate dismissal.

With the Cardinals PR already at a low point relative to recent years, you simply cannot be all rogue and speak your mind in public if that involves putting someone else down.

[ZTR]

What exactly did he say?

[Euro Dandy]

Stuff that hurt, lol. I wondered too, but the article said the Cardinals declined to give details on what Melcher said.

[blingboy]

As the group call happened hours after the DSL squad was robbed at gunpoint by thugs who stormed the compound, the Director of Security was surely in a very foul mood. Then set him in front of a group of ‘downtown interests’ who would be all over the current standards of correct terminology, and I can see where it could go off the rails for him. But in his position and going into that situation, he has to be mindful of the requirements concerning propriety and gravitas.

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