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Published on Aug 1, 2012 
  
 Spectacular activism fail in Tucson Arizona. Please do not post any contact info for this d-bag in the comments. I will nuke any phone numbers or email addresses that I see. Otherwise, have fun. Thanks. Also, quit sending me hate mail - I am not even the guy in the video. ||||| A former CFO is now on food stamps after a video he posted on YouTube two and half years ago criticizing Chick-Fil-A went viral and destroyed his career. 
  
 Adam Smith, 37, was the CFO of a medical device manufacturer in Arizona, until the summer 2012, when he -- and thousands of other people -- started protesting against Chick-Fil-A for the fast-food chain's anti-gay stance. 
  
 One day, Smith decided to go through the drive-thru at his local Chick-Fil-A, where he ordered a free water -- the fast food chain offers customers free water -- and videotaped himself telling the drive-thru attendant how much he despised Chick-Fil-A. 
  
 "Chick-Fil-A is a hateful corporation," Smith said, in part, to the drive-thru attendant. "I don't know how you live with yourself and work here. I don't understand it. This is a horrible corporation with horrible values. You deserve better." 
  
 Smith then posted the video on his personal YouTube channel, but when he got back to work, he received a major shock. 
  
 "I got into work and the receptionist, the first thing, big eyes, 'Adam, what did you do?' ... she said, 'The voicemail is completely full, and it's full of bomb threats,'" Smith said in an exclusive interview with ABC News' "20/20." 
  
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 Smith was fired that same day. He said at the time he was earning $200,000 annually and had over $1 million in stock options. 
  
 "It was taken when I lost my employment," he said. 
  
 After losing his job, Smith, his wife Amy and their four children also lost their home. They were forced to sell and give away their possessions and move into an RV. A few months later, Smith found a new CFO job in Portland, Oregon. It was the fresh start he needed. 
  
 "I felt like, 'Yeah, I got it. I am back,'" Smith said. 
  
 About two weeks later, Smith was fired from that job after his new boss discovered he was the guy from the Chick-Fil-A video. Smith told "20/20" in subsequent job interviews, he was very honest about the video and while prospective employers seemed empathetic and understanding in the end the companies would rescind the offers saying they didn't want the distraction. 
  
 Looking back at the video now, Smith said he was emotional. 
  
 "I don't regret the stand I took, but I regret… the way I talked to her," he told "20/20." 
  
 He even apologized to the drive-thru attendant he was angry with in another video posted to his YouTube channel, which also went viral. She has forgiven him. But Smith says even people who agreed with his pro-gay opinions won't hire him. 
  
 "I think people are scared," Smith said. "I think people are scared that it could happen again." 
  
 Kevin O'Leary, an entrepreneur and panelist on the hit ABC show "Shark Tank," said he always looks up potentially employees online before hiring them. 
  
 "Every time I look at hiring somebody, I go and gather their digital footprint from every source I can get," O'Leary said. "We look at who they are online, and we actually hire them in our minds before we actually ever meet them. And so the interview process is to just prove what we have already assessed online." 
  
 O'Leary warns that all the emails, texts, tweets, selfies and status updates we send out into the world can be career threatening. 
  
 Smith, with his spotty digital footprint, is still looking for a job nearly three years later, and has turned to meditation. He has also just written a new memoir, "A Million Dollar Cup of Water," detailing how his public shaming led him from riches to rags and the intensive soul search for healing. 
  
 Smith said he doesn't know if his viral video will ever go away. "It feels like it just happened," he said. 
  
 ABC News' Nick Watt contributed to this report. ||||| I confess, I had never heard of this infamous Chick-Fil-A incident until this came out last year. I was intrigued enough to look up the incident and Adam Smith and eventually got around to reading this book. Thereupon I wasn't sure what to make of it. Is this a memoir? An attempt to give sage advice on life? A personal response to The Incident? (From what I gathered from the forward, that's the best bet). My final opinion is this book's inability to decide what it wants to be makes it rather flawed, hence the three-star rating. I admittedly purchased the book with secret hopes to hate it, and in the end wanted to like it more than I did. 
  
  
  
 This personal narrative first delves into Adam's childhood, the eldest of eight in a Fundamentalist Christian family suffering from poverty and dysfunction with a father bent on atoning for the life that led to the death of his first-born son. This section is a poignant and fairly interesting account, although made too brief to be a proper memoir. Still, it's a childhood that sets the stage for Adam's adulthood. He is legally signed away from his family in his teens, marries his sweetheart Amy, attends college and becomes fairly obsessed with landing a job that would make him the most money possible--the pursuit of money becoming a strong theme in the work. His personal life continues as he and his wife build a family, wrestle with questions of religion, and get his career really going. Then enters the Chick-Fil-A incident, which I'm sure most readers would be interested in seeing. The rest of the book is the aftermath, being filled with both highs and lows as Adam's family situation is drastically changed and Adam is forced to figure out what to do next, leading to some soul-searching and greater understanding. 
  
  
  
 Handled better (I thought, more than once, after seeing excerpts of Amy's writings, why isn't she writing this book?) this would have been fine material for a finer result. Source material aside, the presentation of this book just wasn't all that polished, a problem I've seen in other similar memoirs. I finished this book vaguely thinking Adam seemed like a nice guy, but with very little significant understanding of him or his views, despite him talking about them so much. Once again, I wanted to like this book more than I did, but at some point I just wished there was more insight. 
  
  
  
 I suppose the book can work as a cautionary tale against the dangers of internet chaos and how infinitely more careful we all ought to be when expressing ourselves as the internet and social media do not forgive, though Adam focuses primarily on his reactions to his life situations; I prefer that to any incessant whine on the madness of the situation. Adam tries to share his gained wisdom, which is nice but again falls a little flat. Authentic living... what does that mean here? I appreciate his experiences, and heaven knows he and I differ on many a view, but this book wasn't eloquent enough to really change my mind or teach me anything new. 
  
  
  
 At its best, this is the story of a man who has been on a life-long journey and is still on it with all the accompanying bumps and views the reader may or may not agree with. But is it worth reading? I enjoyed it enough and even read it in one sitting, but I think it will be better appreciated by those who like the idea of the layman's memoir. |||||
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Things haven't gone too well for the former CFO who criticized Chick-fil-A in a video he posted on YouTube. Unable to find lasting work, 37-year-old Adam Smith is living on food stamps with his wife and four kids in the RV they call home, he tells ABC News. "I think people are scared," Smith says of potential employers. "I think people are scared that it could happen again." Back in the summer of 2012, as thousands of people were opposing Chick-fil-A's stance on gay marriage, Smith rolled into a Chick-fil-A drive-thru for a free glass of water and slammed the female attendant: "Chick-fil-A is a hateful corporation," Smith told her as the filmed the exchange. "I don’t know how you live with yourself and work here. I don’t understand it." Smith posted the video before returning to work at Vante, a Tucson-based medical manufacturer—and the proverbial you-know-what had hit the fan by the time he got there. The receptionist told him "the voicemail is completely full, and it’s full of bomb threats," he says. Fired that day, Smith lost his $200,000 salary and more than $1 million in stock options. He and his family moved to Portland, where he got a CFO job, but lost it two weeks later when they realized who he was. He says he has since been honest in interviews, but companies have been too wary of fallout to hire him. "I don’t regret the stand I took, but I regret… the way I talked to her," an emotional Smith says of the worker. The interview coincides with his recent digital release of a memoir, A Million Dollar Cup of Water (a paperback version is out April 21), which chronicles his professional collapse and years of soul-searching. It's not faring so well on Amazon, which Smith addressed on the site on Friday. "Regarding the many 1-star ratings my book has received today and yesterday, I would like to note that I have only sold 17 digital copies thus far, yet there are 23 1-star ratings on my book. This fascinates me! LOL!"