I actually got outed at my job as a furry doing stand-up (in which I was exaggerating the sexual aspects of furry for humorous effect) while wearing a company issued hat (that's a firable offense; in effect, by wearing the hat, I was accidentally implying I was a spokesperson for the company, and anything offensive I might have said in the act could have been taken as my company's saying it); turned out my manager was in the audience.
"I didn't know you did that."
"The stand-up or the furry thing?"
"Uh, well, both."
Basically, I didn't even get an official "warning," just "uh, don't wear the hat, we could get in trouble for that" (ironically, another comedian later gave me the advice "don't wear hats, period; people can't see your face"); I've always taken the stories of people fired for being furry with a grain of salt after that. The furries in question were probably fired because they were horrible employees; rather than deal with the issue, the furries blamed imaginary "discrimination."
The moral of the story is do your job well, and no one cares about what you do on the side. Also, don't wear hats while doing stand-up comedy.
I actually got outed at my job as a furry doing stand-up (in which I was exaggerating the sexual aspects of furry for humorous effect) while wearing a company issued hat (that's a firable offense; in effect, by wearing the hat, I was accidentally implying I was a spokesperson for the company, and anything offensive I might have said in the act could have been taken as my company's saying it); turned out my manager was in the audience.
"I didn't know you did that."
"The stand-up or the furry thing?"
"Uh, well, both."
Basically, I didn't even get an official "warning," just "uh, don't wear the hat, we could get in trouble for that" (ironically, another comedian later gave me the advice "don't wear hats, period; people can't see your face"); I've always taken the stories of people fired for being furry with a grain of salt after that. The furries in question were probably fired because they were horrible employees; rather than deal with the issue, the furries blamed imaginary "discrimination."
The moral of the story is do your job well, and no one cares about what you do on the side. Also, don't wear hats while doing stand-up comedy.