November 23, 2011

Actress Loses Day Job Over Satirical #OWS Performance

by Wonkette Jr. 11:25 am November 23, 2011

An actress who hilariously portrayed a representative from Bloomberg’s office during Saturday’s weaponized drum circle around the mayor’s mansion has been fired from her job at a marketing firm. Why? Eh, got to keep the people on edge. If everybody starts protesting, well, there would be fear and confusion in the corporate boardrooms!

YesLab reported the stupid developments in a press release:

“They said my performance had put the company in an uncomfortable position,” said Mary Notari, who learned of her firing from a phone call Monday afternoon. “The mayor has said ‘No right is absolute’—including, apparently, the right to poke fun at him for using violent force against his own people and for bending the law to do so.”

In Notari’s performance, she asked the recently-evicted protesters how they would “feel if someone came to your place of residence and prevented you from moving freely.” She also announced that the protesters had “put the mayor under siege” and had “reduced him to behaving like a medieval warlord.”

The “market research consulting firm” that fired Notari from her “independent contractor” (no benefits/pay your own Social Security and payroll taxes) position was not named. We hope the market research it next performs shows that market research companies are going to be occupied and dismantled by everyone without a job and everyone recently fired from their not-really-jobs for taking part in democratic actions.

How many people have been fired in “New York media” so far, just for some minor participation in the economic justice protests nationwide, in this collapsing nation run by hateful kleptocrats? Oh who knows. At least Mayor Bloomberg gets to go to Bermuda every week! #OccupyBermudaTriangle. [YesLab]

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nounverb911 November 23, 2011 at 11:27 am

A virgin sacrificed to the gods of media?

actor212 November 23, 2011 at 11:28 am

That's no virgin

Tundra Grifter November 23, 2011 at 11:34 am

Only if she wants to be.

While she looks remarkably like Steve Carell's sister, she is HOT.

I hope this leads to many new and better jobs for her. She deserves them.

anniegetyerfun November 23, 2011 at 11:39 am

Some edgy firm will snap her up.

Tundra Grifter November 23, 2011 at 11:41 am: I certainly would.

And then I'd do my level best to help her get a job.
Come here a minute November 23, 2011 at 4:08 pm: I might have given it a shot when I was an edgy firm.

OneDollarJuana November 23, 2011 at 1:05 pm

Yeah, what does nounverb911 think "marketing" is, anyway?

Crowe2011 November 23, 2011 at 1:12 pm

The real star was the cop saying Bloomberg went to Bermuda every weekend. Gets in a zinger and can keep his job by pretending "no, no; I think it's a good thing billionaires can do whatever the fuck they want". That's real marketing nous right there. Draft Cop No. 4!

Dashboard_Jesus November 23, 2011 at 3:11 pm: well he gets to keep his job just til the mayor get's back from his WEEKLY TRIP TO BERMUDA!1!1! (srsly WTF?)

prommie November 23, 2011 at 11:28 am

Oh hells, man, I know I would lose my job if I could be traced to prommie. I am marginally employable, but this prommie dude, he would be persona non grata.

Terry November 23, 2011 at 11:31 am

You should actually be pretty easy to link to Prommie. Isn't that profile pix actually a photo of you?

user-of-owls November 23, 2011 at 11:51 am

I am marginally employable, but this prommie dude, he would be persona non grata.

Or, as Ken would say, "Wonkette's base."

widestanceshakedown November 23, 2011 at 12:14 pm

Here, here. I'd lose my job as CEO of Koch Industries if it became known I was the commenter widestanceshakedown. Wait. . .

Lascauxcaveman November 23, 2011 at 12:47 pm

Eh, being the top guy in my organization, I don't have to worry so much about that. Even when I'm making my "infallibly" snarky comments about the Catholic Church. (Hint hint)

widestanceshakedown November 23, 2011 at 12:53 pm

Curious, has anyone here ever gotten into trouble for Wonkette comments at their job? I have not, but sometimes tremble before submitting (heh, heh)?

Jukesgrrl November 23, 2011 at 3:30 pm: I came perilously close to losing my job at a Fortune 100 company because my boss found out I gave a party at MY HOME to celebrate Clinton's election. But the boss who tried that stunt was set to rights by human resources who were afraid of the EEO laws. You know, those things the Justice Department gave up enforcing shortly after Clinton left office. (And don't say, "Why would you celebrate Clinton's election?" Think about what we had before that … which admittedly seems pretty tame now.)

Dashboard_Jesus November 23, 2011 at 3:15 pm

wait, yer the Pope? I always knew there was something a little 'German' about you…Lascaux indeed

Lascauxcaveman November 24, 2011 at 12:27 am: Heh. That whole French caveman thing is just a dodge.

Don't step on my red Prada pumps. And DON'T call me "Benny."

DaSandman November 23, 2011 at 1:29 pm

Which is precisely why he fucking rocks.

LiveToServeYa November 23, 2011 at 1:32 pm

Today, we are all persona non grata.

WunkRocker November 23, 2011 at 1:44 pm

Meh I'm trying to get fired. Then I could skip out on my child support and run for office as a republican on the VALUES ticket.

sezme November 23, 2011 at 2:05 pm

Yeah I know. If my online persona was ever traced to me, I'd have to find a hapless flunky to pin it on and then fire him!

actor212 November 23, 2011 at 11:30 am

Junior, it's not like a quick trip to teh Google wouldn't find the name of the firm she's interning at….

actor212 November 23, 2011 at 11:31 am

In Notari’s performance, she asked the recently-evicted protesters how they would “feel if someone came to your place of residence and prevented you from moving freely.” She also announced that the protesters had “put the mayor under siege” and had “reduced him to behaving like a medieval warlord.”

So she imitated Speaker Christine Quinn?

Schmannnity November 23, 2011 at 11:32 am

Imagine if she were really Bloomberg's representative. How about some pepper spray and baton, sweetie?

memzilla November 23, 2011 at 11:34 am

"…had 'reduced [Mayor Bloomberg] to behaving like a medieval warlord.'”

Medieval Warlord Libel!!!

– source:
Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency and Medieval Warlord and Oppressed Billionaire Research Centre

Chillwaver November 23, 2011 at 12:05 pm

The best line of this clip is the cop saying that Bloomberg is a "billionaire and gets to do what he wants."

memzilla November 23, 2011 at 12:06 pm: With no sense of irony at all. Agreed.

lochnessmonster November 23, 2011 at 11:35 am

Think that cop will be reassigned to a crappier job after letting it out of the bag Bloomberg spends his weekends in Bermuda?

elviouslyqueer November 23, 2011 at 11:39 am

Quoth the cop: "He's a billionaire. He can do what he wants."

IS THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT.

Biff November 23, 2011 at 12:18 pm: ~~FOLLOW~~OCCUPY THE MONEY!

actor212 November 23, 2011 at 12:05 pm

It's not like it's ever been a big secret. He's there nearly every weekend (on his private jet, no city money), and made a point of stating that back in 2001 when he ran the first time.

So you can imagine it surprised the hell out of me when he popped up on my TeeVee Sunday evening with a phony terror threat, straight from City Hall.

Negropolis November 24, 2011 at 1:43 am

You can imagine us non-New Yorkers surprise at hearing a vacationing spot as obscure as Bermuda (not exactly rich American's first choice), and then that he's there every weekend. We knew the guy was rich as fuck, but jetting to Bermuda on the weekends is just cartoonishly wealthy, like something you'd expect to hear Fred Armisen playing Mikey Bloomberg to say on SNL.

ibwilliamsi November 24, 2011 at 5:26 pm

Oh, I don't know. I seem to remember that when he ran for Mayor in 2001 it being bantied about that he could replace every engine and ambulance lost on 9/11 out of pocket and still be rich as fuck.

Negropolis November 24, 2011 at 11:30 pm: You see, I don't remember hearing about that mayoral election, at all, but then again, I don't live on the East Coast. Most of us didn't really hear about Bloomberg until his second term. We all kind of thought that Guiliani had just kind of faded into the background and some random dude took his place as a caretaker government. Guess we were wrong. Ain't nothing random about Michael.

Tundra Grifter November 23, 2011 at 11:37 am

Interesting that at the start of this video the crowd can't repeat a sentence of more than about six or eight words. So, she cuts it back to about four words at a time.

If those folks were trying to get married the ceremony would last all afternoon.

Biff November 23, 2011 at 12:21 pm

Reminded me of a sketch from Martin Mull or the Firesign Theater or something. It'll come to me. Until then, it must be said that I'd hit that.

jqheywood November 23, 2011 at 12:48 pm

No…it was the first season of SNL. Garrett Morris as the headmaster for a school for the deaf "interpreting" "our top story tonight" by shouting everything that Chevy Chase said.

God, I'm old….

Biff November 23, 2011 at 1:02 pm: I remember that one too, but what I'm thinking of is an almost exact “pre-creation” of what the lovely ms. Notari's little vidclip portrays.
GOPCrusher November 23, 2011 at 1:07 pm: "Jane, you ignorant slut…" is probably the high point of writing for SNL.

Tundra Grifter November 23, 2011 at 12:59 pm

Biff:

It would be humerous if the crowd, in unison, shouted out something completely different from what the leader was saying.

starfanglednut November 23, 2011 at 3:27 pm

I dunno, she kinda sets my gaydar off.

Biff November 23, 2011 at 3:37 pm

I would no doubt come to that conclusion myself, sooner or later, since any woman that rejects my advances (hint: all of them) has teh gay in my book.

starfanglednut November 23, 2011 at 4:30 pm: Nonsense Biff. I'm sure you are adorable and teh wimmenz lurv you.

OneDollarJuana November 23, 2011 at 1:07 pm

If the whole crowd was trying to get married, they'd be Moonies.

Dashboard_Jesus November 23, 2011 at 3:18 pm

LOL, good thing I'm not drinking yet, all I spewed out my nose THIS TIME was lukewarm tea

starfanglednut November 23, 2011 at 3:28 pm: But vodka cleans the keyboard so nicely. Don't ask me how I know this.

GregComlish November 23, 2011 at 11:38 am

Notari really hurt the reputation of her anonymous employer that nobody can identify.

memzilla November 23, 2011 at 11:48 am: Yet.
friendlyskies November 23, 2011 at 11:50 am: Yes…. who was that employer?

coolhandnuke November 23, 2011 at 11:38 am

I'll put the Gloria Allred appearing over/under at 4:00 pm EST.

Joshua Norton November 23, 2011 at 11:39 am

Medieval Warlords are such iiiiiiiiinteresting people.

MzNicky November 23, 2011 at 11:39 am

Wait — huh? She was satirizing a mayoral apparatchik, but nobody got the joke? Looked like the crowd was gettin' ready to turn on her. Then she got fired from her marketing research freelance job or whatever? Well, I'm confused. But — yay, no I mean boo, I guess?

Dashboard_Jesus November 23, 2011 at 3:35 pm: LOL, I'm with you…took a few minutes to determine what my *outrage* should be directed and then I decided it's Bloomberg, er wait I mean the *market research firm*…or both, yeah that's it, ALL of 'em Katie

Goonemeritus November 23, 2011 at 11:40 am

That’s it time to occupy Bermuda I greatly look forward to the serious way they take high tea and the Caribbean notes in their weaponnized pepper spray.

widestanceshakedown November 23, 2011 at 12:16 pm: You gotta like dress shorts and black socks, though.

SorosBot November 23, 2011 at 11:42 am

So acting like a human being with a social conscience is a firable offense in marketing; glad I don't work there.

FNMA November 23, 2011 at 12:25 pm

You don't know many people in marketing, do you?

SorosBot November 23, 2011 at 1:02 pm: No one, in fact; are they all that bad?

Lionel[redacted]Esq November 23, 2011 at 12:45 pm

Advertising too. Also.

GOPCrusher November 23, 2011 at 1:09 pm

Even used car dealers look down their noses at marketing people.

FNMA November 23, 2011 at 1:19 pm: Hell, pimps look down at marketing people.

jesus_vs_gojira November 23, 2011 at 1:25 pm

Acting like a human being with a social conscience is a firable offense, period.

widestanceshakedown November 23, 2011 at 1:40 pm: Look, buddy, we aren't paying you to have a conscience here. . .

Negropolis November 24, 2011 at 1:47 am

I take it you've never seen Mad Men.

user-of-owls November 23, 2011 at 11:43 am

On the bright side, at least our heroine won't be duped into boarding the Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B.

Unless, of course, she gets a job as a telephone sanitizer.

Oblios_Cap November 23, 2011 at 11:46 am

Or a hairdresser. Maybe, if she likes baths, she could be the captain.

user-of-owls November 23, 2011 at 11:48 am

42.

Oblios_Cap November 23, 2011 at 11:57 am

I've just finished rereading Adams. Now I'm going back through my Moorcock.

elviouslyqueer November 23, 2011 at 12:03 pm: Now I'm going back through my Moorcock.

That's what Marcus Bachmann said.
Biff November 23, 2011 at 12:23 pm: Prefer Morehead, myself.

WhatTheHeck November 23, 2011 at 11:45 am

Warlords don’t like Drum circles. They like Jerk circles.

Next time, honey, bring a 16" Le Crueset cast iron pot for the Mayor. It might make a better impression between his eyes.

Ducksworthy November 23, 2011 at 11:46 am

Marketing is an evil perversion of psychology. She's better off out of it.

Oblios_Cap November 23, 2011 at 11:58 am: But it involves drinking. Lots and lots of drinking.

TanzbodenKoenig November 23, 2011 at 11:48 am

Speak truth to power – get canned

Suckle on the Koch teat – get money

Chillwaver November 23, 2011 at 11:48 am

Sounds like her no-benfits, low-paying job at a anonymous firm sucked anyway…

fartknocker November 23, 2011 at 11:50 am

It's nice to see that the officers at NYPD show some dignity for the OWS'ers rather than being all gestapo John Pike on them.

Monsieur_Grumpe November 23, 2011 at 11:50 am

Last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it. 0:28

RIP
Rodney

ifthethunderdontgetya November 23, 2011 at 11:53 am

How many people have been fired in “New York media” so far, just for some minor participation in the economic justice protests nationwide, in this collapsing nation run by hateful kleptocrats?

Same number as were fired for helping Bush-Cheney lie us into Iraq.

(Judy Miller was fired for the Scooter Libby deal…Her partner in crime, Michael R. Gordon, is now helping sell our next war, with Iran.)
~

BaldarTFlagass November 23, 2011 at 11:56 am

I guess the new verb describing the loss of your job due to participation in OWS will be "Notarized".

BaldarTFlagass November 23, 2011 at 11:58 am

Wait a minute, you mean we are being ruled by medieval warlords? Hmm. I thought we were an autonomous collective.

Chichikovovich November 23, 2011 at 12:00 pm

You haven't yet seen the violence inherent in the system.

CrankyLttlCamperette November 23, 2011 at 12:22 pm

Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!

God, I wish that was funny.

jqheywood November 23, 2011 at 12:50 pm

Bloody peasant!

GOPCrusher November 23, 2011 at 1:11 pm: How can you tell he's the King?
He's not covered in shit.

Chichikovovich November 23, 2011 at 11:59 am

The lass is quite fetching. Perhaps she can take over the big bucks position as Friday "Barry Can You Hear Me" poster from the apparently sadly departed Ms. Benincasa.

widestanceshakedown November 23, 2011 at 12:18 pm: Yeah, what's up with that, did she make a sex tape with Peg or something?

FlownOver November 23, 2011 at 12:02 pm

Sidenote to the Medieval Wonket Warlords:

I can get along very nicely without the audio ads, thank you.

Tundra Grifter November 23, 2011 at 12:04 pm

Was that Molly Ivins, returning to us on the streets of New York City?

Dulce!

Maman November 23, 2011 at 12:05 pm

She put the company in an "uncomfortable position"? Is it uncomfortable to find out that your employees hope to be more that cogs in your apparatus?

coolhandnuke November 23, 2011 at 12:05 pm

She must get her hair done from the same barber who does Condi Rice's.

user-of-owls November 23, 2011 at 12:08 pm

It's hard out there for a Swift.

sbj1964 November 23, 2011 at 12:11 pm

Bloomberg, probably has the Darth Vader tune as a ring tone."You are a liar,and rebel scum"!

OccupytheDashboard November 23, 2011 at 12:21 pm

Looks like the unnamed employer needs a visit from The Crimson Permanent Assurance.

CrankyLttlCamperette November 23, 2011 at 12:23 pm

This is the job creation we were told about, right?

NowTheyTellMe November 23, 2011 at 12:26 pm

"I, state your name …"
"I, STATE YOUR NAME …"
"Pledge allegiance …"
"PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE …"
"To the frat …"
"TO THE FRAT …"
"Oh, fuck this. ON TO BERMUDA!!"
"BERMUDA! RAHHHHHHH!!!"

Negropolis November 24, 2011 at 1:50 am: **golf cap**

DahBoner November 23, 2011 at 12:28 pm

Welcome to America, where almost everyone can be fired, without redress, over any fucking thing they want….

GOPCrusher November 23, 2011 at 1:12 pm: America, the "Right To Work" country.

johnnyzhivago November 23, 2011 at 12:32 pm

She also had pipes in her kitchen and bathroom, which is one step away from being capable of building a pipe bomb.

Beowoof November 23, 2011 at 12:34 pm

Why did that reporter remind me of Booger from Revenge of the Nerds? Probably because he looks just like him. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0035664/

poncho_pilot November 23, 2011 at 1:58 pm: beerios!
Dashboard_Jesus November 23, 2011 at 3:43 pm: damn, I had EXACTLY the same visceral response to that dood too!

SayItWithWookies November 23, 2011 at 12:37 pm

I've got a secret for Ms. Notari's former employer: if you're like every single employer I've had experience with, all of your employees are quietly mocking you for one thing or another and are on the edge of not putting up with your bullshit most of the time. We work for the money you begrudgingly let us have as you're complaining about how expensive and useless we are — I'd be worried you'd do something with that knowledge but apparently you haven't been paying attention, so just think of this as the end of the good ol' days when you could be as mean as you wanted to.

actor212 November 23, 2011 at 12:48 pm: Yes, and they know that, but the thing is, she wasn't even mocking them. Hell, if they hadn't made an issue of it, I doubt anyone would ever know she was working for them.
Tundra Grifter November 23, 2011 at 1:02 pm: SIWW:

As if "market research consulting" wasn't, by definition, horse puckey. Talk about the professions vital to America's future as the world's leader!
Negropolis November 24, 2011 at 1:51 am: P.S. It's not me, it's you.

But, honestly, the irony in all of this is that she has a life outside of work, and apparently a constructive one, and the asocial assholes up top are snorting coke off a hooker's ass, and probably in their penthouses offices a lot of the times.

GorzoTheMighty November 23, 2011 at 12:41 pm

Psst..That guy at the top right almost gave me a heart attack. Why is he staring at me? Last time I do mushrooms in preparation of family visiters(occupiers).

Lionel[redacted]Esq November 23, 2011 at 12:47 pm

Really, is being fired from a marketing firm a bad thing?

user-of-owls November 23, 2011 at 12:53 pm

It depends…
[It depends...]
[[It depends...]]

…on how much…
[...on how much...]
[[...on how much...]]

…you value…
[...you value...]
[[...you value...]]

…your soul.
[...your soul.]
[[...your soul.]]

widestanceshakedown November 23, 2011 at 1:11 pm

Souls are leveraged with media-optimization in all markets for a dynamic prosumer environment to enhance maximum ROI for clients.

jesus_vs_gojira November 23, 2011 at 1:28 pm

Isn't that Mitt Romney's campaign slogan?

widestanceshakedown November 23, 2011 at 1:34 pm: Until it isn't.

elviouslyqueer November 23, 2011 at 1:29 pm

FAP FAP FAP.

widestanceshakedown November 23, 2011 at 1:36 pm: Whoa, slow down there, elvious, I didn't even get to market penetration, let alone saturation, yet.

Lionel[redacted]Esq November 23, 2011 at 1:33 pm

That, or people are not wearing enough hats.

user-of-owls November 23, 2011 at 5:02 pm

Points off for failing to use 'synergy.'

GOPCrusher November 23, 2011 at 1:15 pm

Right now, it's easy to get a job on a campaign staff.

Plowmon November 23, 2011 at 1:00 pm

If only she'd have had better broadband…

widestanceshakedown November 23, 2011 at 1:19 pm: . . .she could be in an ad demonstrating how much she loves her broadband–and that would open many doors for her in marketing (treat me nice, party girl. . .).

owhatever November 23, 2011 at 1:27 pm

May we please have the name of the marketing firm so we can send them our congratulations? And an email address? Perhaps a foner? Name of the CEO? I sure would like to extend my appreciation to them for defending the First Amendment so well.

dennis1943 November 23, 2011 at 1:30 pm

It's the punishment for the new "uppity"………………….

LiveToServeYa November 23, 2011 at 1:34 pm

What, 'Bermuda' as in 'triangle'? THE LEGENDS ARE TRUE!!

Antispandex November 23, 2011 at 1:37 pm

You know the really important thing in Amerika has always been that we keep the important, well connected, and wealthy people safe from the dirty mob. Why? Well, they're dirty, of course…and protecting what is pretty is our duty. So, if you want a strong democracy, put people in jail who disagree!

Jukesgrrl November 23, 2011 at 3:38 pm

More likely she was made an example of, so other employees don't think about occupying anything. Just wait, this will become all the rage in corporate America. You express a 99% opinion and you can't have ANY of our money, no more paltry sum we were paying you before.

Karma_Suture November 23, 2011 at 5:57 pm