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Woman loses job for calling Michelle Obama an ape

Reckless social media posts are harmful to your job. This came to haunt one woman who was apparently glad an ‘ape in Michelle Obama was leaving the White House’ and a classier woman taking up her position.

The woman, Pamela Taylor, worked in West Virginia as a director of the Clay County Development Corporation. She had written on Facebook: "It will be so refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified First Lady back in the White House. I'm tired of seeing a (sic) Ape in heels."

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