Gilbert Gottfried Fired

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Originally Posted by randallscott35

Now he is the voice of the Aflac duck and they do 75% of their business in Japan. He made some jokes on Twitter, he lost his job as the voice. I think Gilbert is great myself. When you hire a standup comic to be your voice for something you can't be surprised when he does his job. Sure it is their choice to fire him, I just don't see the point.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrend...ntsunamitweets

Doesn't your 75% number you cited tell us the point? If they didn't do a lot of their business there, I highly doubt they would have fired him over those remarks.
I can't say I'm at all surprised that he was fired. Why would a company risk alienating their customers just to demonstrate support for the guy who does the voice of their mascot? Might they have lost customers by not firing him? Seems like the answer might be yes. Will firing him cost them any customers? I doubt it. Seems like a simple business calculation, no?