Virginia social worked fired for having gun permit.

[cstone]

Ah, Facebook. Such a hotbed of reason and rational thought. The place so many people get their news these days to make sure they're informed voters.

And I fear that this board could trend in the same direction when much of the content is carried forward from that book of faces.

[Justin]

This place is a veritable oasis compared to what you'll find on FB, Twitter, Reddit, etc.

[hurley842002]

This place is a veritable oasis compared to what you'll find on FB, Twitter, Reddit, etc.

Depends on what/who you choose to surround yourself with, I've got immediate family who are on my friends list, that I've blocked their content from being displayed on my "feed".

[Justin]

Curate your friends list all you want, you're still going to get inundated with whatever garbage advertising and fake news that Facebook shoves down your throat in order to make a buck.
Sure explains why they call it a "Feed".

On top of that, no matter what you do, Big Social tracks and sorts you from every conceivable angle, including GPS, WiFi, photo, microphone, etc.

[hurley842002]

Curate your friends list all you want, you're still going to get inundated with whatever garbage advertising and fake news that Facebook shoves down your throat in order to make a buck.
Sure explains why they call it a "Feed".

On top of that, no matter what you do, Big Social tracks and sorts you from every conceivable angle, including GPS, WiFi, photo, microphone, etc.

Apparently I've learned to tune it out

[izzy]

But really is there a way to know who has blocked you? I guess if you get to the point where you're sitting there wondering why it seems like you're talking to your self then you'd know you won at the internet.

[Gman]

But really is there a way to know who has blocked you? I guess if you get to the point where you're sitting there wondering why it seems like you're talking to your self then you'd know you won at the internet.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Given what Terry McAuliffe has been doing to the state government in VA, I wouldn't be at all surprised if her story was true but I also wouldn't be surprised if there was more to the story. We just don't know enough sitting half the country away. ONE person discredited her story? That person could also be the one with a backstory that's not at all kosher. Like I said, we just don't know.

[TheGrey]

.....and the plot thickens!

http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/ro...5447b579f.html

A woman who claimed on social media that she was fired by the Roanoke Department of Social Services for holding a concealed weapons permit said Monday she intends to sue the city.
Storm Durham said she is working with attorneys supplied by the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a Second Amendment advocacy group.
“I’m ready to fight it,” Durham said.
The Fincastle native stirred a major internet controversy with posts Friday to Twitter and Facebook alleging, “I was fired today due to having a concealed carry permit.”
By Monday afternoon, her Tweet had been retweeted 27,300 times and her Facebook post had been shared 9,200 times.
Roanoke officials released a statement Saturday, citing a policy of not commenting on personnel matters, but adding, “In light of these assertions, however, it is important to note that the City of Roanoke respects the Constitutional rights of its citizens and that the dismissal in question was not based upon anyone’s exercise of such rights.”
Human Resources Director Michele Vineyard was more direct writing city employees in an internal memo obtained by The Roanoke Times.
“The actions taken by the City were not based upon the former employee’s right to hold a concealed carry permit for firearms,” Vineyard wrote. “I want to emphasize that we have no policy or procedure limiting the right of employees to hold concealed carry permits as authorized by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia. We respect and support the Constitutional rights of our employees as citizens.”
Durham said Friday she received a document explaining her termination, with the reasons including performance issues during her six months with the office. Other reasons, by her account, were being arrogant, not paying attention during training, attendance and not being properly dressed. None of those claims were founded, she said.
Durham was a child protective services investigator still in her one-year probationary period as an employee, she said.
She described herself in an interview Monday as a Fincastle girl who began hunting and fishing when she was nine and whose grandfather owned a gun shop. She was a competitive cheerleader through high school and during her time at Roanoke College, where she said she also served on the college’s academic integrity and student conduct councils.
She graduated in May with degrees in sociology and elementary education and took her first job with the Craig County Department of Social Services, she said.
Durham said her dream is to be a teacher. She said she intended to work in social services while passing necessary professional exams to become certified to teach in Virginia, she said.
In October, Durham said, she transferred to the Roanoke Department of Social Services, where she “had a few bumps in the road.”
Four months ago, she said, her trainer taught her a procedure that she followed, but then was reprimanded for it by her supervisor. So she alerted her trainer, who sent her a “nasty email” calling her “sloppy and unprofessional.”
Durham said she took the matter to her supervisor, who, along with the trainer, “threw her under the bus.”
Later, Durham said, she was given a set of performance expectations that required her to close cases at a faster pace. She acknowledged it took her time to adjust to the caseload in Roanoke after coming from rural Craig County, but said she exceeded all expectations.
By Thursday, however, she was weary of how she was treated by supervisors and went to the human resources office to alert the director.
That afternoon, she was told the complaint would not be investigated. She was given a contact to reach out to if she had more concerns about her supervisors.
The next day, at about 4:30 p.m. Friday, she was summoned to the office of the assistant director of the department, was told she was being fired and given the document listing the reasons. At the top, she said, was a concern about “workplace safety.”
Durham said she asked about it and was told by the assistant director that her possession of a concealed weapons permit made her a safety risk in the building and for co-workers.
Three Roanoke police officers escorted her to her desk, Durham said, where her personal possessions were loaded onto a cart and pushed to her car by one of the officers while the two others escorted her out of the building.
City police did not respond to a request for comment.
That evening, Durham made posts on social media about her firing. She didn’t anticipate they would catch fire as they did.
“I’m not in this for fame or money of anything like that, but I wanted there to be public knowledge about how they treated me,” she said. She contends she was fired “because of values that didn’t line up with theirs.”
Within a short time she was pleased to see her Facebook post had been shared 47 times. She went to bed early and woke up to a flood of Twitter and Facebook notifications, she said.
The mass of people who commented on and shared her posts were supporters.
Some critics alleged she was a difficult employee and that a friend of hers threatened her co-worker and brought a gun to the social services office. Durham denied that, saying the friend was only in the office parking lot twice to help her carry her bag when she was on crutches with a broken ankle.
Durham quickly became a cause for conservative media and Second Amendment advocacy groups. She spent the weekend doing interviews with people from local broadcast news organizations, the National Rifle Association and Corey Stewart, a Northern Virginia politician who is seeking the Republican nomination to challenge Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va.
Her interview with The Roanoke Times was her 13th, and more were in the works, including one with “Fox and Friends” on Fox News, she said. She now has a YouTube channel called The Conservative Storm and the fact-checking website Snopes.com has a post about her claim with a “false” rating.
The response has been “overwhelming,” Durham said. And sometimes unpleasant.
“I’ve been told to go die,” she said, and mocked for her looks and high-pitched voice. The most hurtful comments have been those that suggested she shouldn’t be allowed around children, she said.
But she has no regrets, she said.
“I don’t want attention on myself, I want attention on what happened,” she said. “I like sharing my story, and I feel like God maybe put something in my lap [so] I could maybe further my career ... on a different career path.”

[TheGrey]

....and this is also from Facebook, from somebody else:

Alex King shared Storm Durham's post.
Yesterday at 11:01am ·
Two sides to every story... this side is a bit more believable. This is my opinion based on what I’ve been told. I offer this as another version of the events and it is a true rendition of what I was told. Decide for yourself what you want to believe. I hope the credible news outlets will look into what I have shared.

“This girl is not who she is claiming to be. She went to Roanoke college and majored in childhood education and sociology. This plays an important role in her job choices. She was fired from 3 different daycares and had to be escorted out of one of them by the police because she threw a fit and locked herself into a room with the children.

She then worked for Craig county DSS. She had shoddy work performance and was very dramatic and didn't carry the values of the agency. I am unsure if she got fired or resigned because she knew what was coming, but she came over to Roanoke city dss.

She was a nightmare and would not listen to any redirection and was unethical in her approach to child welfare. She always wanted to remove children and that is always the last resort if possible.

In her videos she stated that she got intro trouble because she had to bring a coworker back to the office when she wanted to respond to an emergency. We are not first responders like she says. We cannot make people open the door for us, we can't give first aid, we can't take children without a proper procedure. She stated that the child's life was in danger and she needed to be there. The cops report first to any danger in life. That in itself tells you that she didn't understand our job or the scope of it. Nor did she understand the delicacy of it. She was unable to accept instructions and when she was corrected, she would throw royal fits and lock herself into an abandoned office and scream and cry like a toddler.

Her and her boyfriend broke up for a few days in January after she downloaded the Tinder app and got caught. He told her to get her stuff out of their house. She went dancing at sidewinders with a coworker. While there, she was dancing all up on a married man and pissed the wife off. The wife poured beer on her head and a scuffle ensued and Storm was pushed to the ground and got a busted lip. When she was outside talking to the cops, she was drunk and yelling that she worked for dss and was a cps worker and therefore shouldn't get in trouble. She called the (ex)bf and he showed up and starting threatening the coworker, saying he would slit her throat.

This was reported to the agency and that is why there was concern about there being domestic violence in the home and they were trying to see if she needed help.

It was also reported to the agency that one of the times when she was reprimanded by the person training her, her bf showed up in the back parking lot and someone overheard him saying he had his gun on him. Allegedly he also followed this person down to sheetz. Storm never reported this, but it was reported by another worker.

That is why she was escorted out by police. She is unstable and it was unknown if her bf would show back up with a gun if she was allowed time to call him. Also based on her previous behavior, it was unknown if she had her gun on her or in her vehicle and that is why she was a serious threat to the building.

No one wants an unhinged, hysterical person around children that have already been through trauma. Even less so an unhinged, hysterical person with a gun.

I am very pro second amendment. She gives us all a very bad name. When her story comes out, just imagine how the media will run with this.”