Action Meet Consequence: Four Fired After Filming Harassment of HR Over Teen Vogue Layoffs
http://twitchy.com/eric-v/2025/11/08/action-meet-consequence-four-fired-after-filming-harassment-of-hr-over-teen-vogue-layoffs-watch-n2421409
They're young. They're bold. They're brash, and now they're unemployed. Four staffers of Condé Nast, upset after learning that the mass media conglomerate had just laid off several employees at Teen Vogue - which was being merged with Vogue Magazine - got themselves fired.
The four joined a group of around twenty employees, none of whom had anything to do with business decisions at the corporation, and confronted the head of HR, Stan Duncan. They demanded answers, accusing their employer of caving to political pressure. Duncan refuses to engage the group and instructs them to return to work. They refuse, until he turns his back on them a shuts his office door.
The group of disgruntled dingbats was so confident in the righteousness of their indignation that they filmed the encounter and shared it on social media.
Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) ~ A group of leftist journalism staffers, including a trans leader of the pack, confronted Condé Nast HR head Stan Duncan over the Teen Vogue layoffs.
Four of the leftists in this video have been fired, including trans writer “Alma Avalle.”
Video ~ http://twitter.com/i/status/1987033619915792588
Condé Nast was not amused and promptly fired four of the twenty employees for what the company described as extreme misconduct and violating company rules.
New York Post (@nypost) ~ Condé Nast fires four staffers who harassed, cornered HR chief over Teen Vogue layoffs
http://trib.al/p34PArV
New York Post (@nypost) ~ Video shows Condé Nast employees confront HR chief before firings: ‘Do you think we’re not worth speaking to?’
http://trib.al/kK8Wy05
Actions have consequences, and the 'Fired Four' will join their laid-off colleagues on the unemployment line. The company has also filed a federal labor complaint against the NewsGuild of New York.
Hours later, Condé Nast fired four union members who participated in the confrontation — Jasper Lo of the New Yorker, Jake Lahut of Wired, Alma Avalle of Bon Appétit and Ben Dewey of Condé Nast Entertainment — citing “gross misconduct and policy violations.”
Condé Nast also filed a federal labor complaint against the NewsGuild of New York.
One clip shows Duncan asking the employees to stop “congregating” outside his office before telling them to leave.
The regret was instant for former Wired writer Jake Lahut. He's the guy in the video, coolly leaning against the wall, repeatedly asking Duncan: What counts as congregating?
In just a few short days, he's been reduced to online panhandling to pay his rent.
AmErican ( @Flipper628 ) ~ Condé Nast writer fired for confronting HR boss starts crowdfunding campaign
http://nypost.com/2025/11/07/media/conde-nast-writer-fired-for-confronting-hr-boss-starts-crowdfunding-campaign/
That's a rough landing for a guy who seemed so comfortable harassing his boss a few days earlier. If you needed rent money, why would you go out of your way to risk your own job like that?
AG (@AGHamilton29) ~ The level of entitlement is really something. That’s why you don’t hire wannabe activists to do real jobs.
Bleu Cheque (@VERBAL_CHANCLA) ~ When a company is in the middle of layoffs, you really have to be full of yourself to feel you can go straight to the top and complain. The boss was like, "Give me a reason to cut four more, buddy."
We don't celebrate when people lose their livelihood. Even journalists. The staffers who were laid off at Teen Vogue lost their jobs through no fault of their own. The four fired staffers who followed didn't lose their jobs; they chose to throw them away.
They arrogantly spoke truth to power, and learned a harsh life lesson when power spoke back.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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