Without jumping to extremes, one ought to be able to confront a person individually about concerning conduct. For businesses a clean public personna is a bona fide job requirement. Subway, from statements in the article, knew exactly the sort of unacceptable behaviors Jared was engaged in ... and Jared himself was apparently not exactly shy in talking about it.
Yeah, confronting a person hired, contracted, or employed in your labor (however one puts it) is one thing. Done with tact of course. But depending on the response each person has to go from there. The person could deny it, be telling the truth, and you don't believe him or her. Or they could deny it, not be telling the truth, and you believe them or *want* to believe them. Or the person may lie and you in your gut know they are lying.
Or as cases often are in life dealing with all sorts of subject matter... there can be some varying level of truth to a thing but then colored with exaggerations or even other false accusations just because a person doing the accusing does not like another person.
My dealings with people leads me to believe you don't often get a lot of truth out of people. Often times you get some truths distorted by coloring that is not entirely true, it's just the impression the speaker wants to give. You can't even get the full truth out of police officers let alone the regular citizen. You can just glimpse that in the non-criminal controversy over gay marriage or whether Bruce Jenner was born a man. Depending on what the person *wants*see and think about a person is going to color their rendition and story about the person. So, I really don't think it's my place as a boss to be policing the off hours of my employees. Mind you... as you said, if I own a business, the reputation of my business must be protected too so I have to balance that with some prudence. Especially if I have other employees I'm responsible for too.
Jared is an interesting character in that he seems to be a pretty dishonest person. And I can't tell if he is partly mentally retarded or just became embolden by his fame and position that he thought he could freely run his mouth and run a scam charity.
Again, the standard of evidence involving personal conduct for Subway and the standard for criminal prosecution ought to be quite different.
Consider the number of businesses which routinely fire spokespersons and employees for minor transgressions of political correctness where there is not even a chance of criminal prosecution.
This is a transgression of political correctness. It just happens to be criminal too. The pro-homosexual lobbying people have been using the witch hunt and fear of "pedophilia" (which they stupidly include some 30 year-old dude with a 17 year-old girl in) for decades now as an indirect attack on traditional sexual mores to invoke a sense of sexual perversion among the traditionalist. It's group-think. And everyone has their lines in the play they're supposed to recite. And everyone is supposed to stand up and yell in unison that some 14 year-old girl with an 18 1/2 year-old dude is unnatural, going to cause her to jump off a roof, but two 14 year-old dudes sodomizing each other is natural, good, and turns said young men into peaceful noble prize winners.
Honestly, I see two 14 year-old boys sodomizing each other as no more and no less
life damaging than some 14 year-old girl having sex with some 50 year-old dude. And no amount of group pressure or fear mongering is going to convince me otherwise.
