Marie Jarry on Howard Stern and 5 Ways to Protect Your Career

According to the Chicago Tribune, Aaron Jarry says his wife, Marie Jarry, was forced to resign from her second grade teaching position by Thalberg School community. Marie Jarry entered and won a contest on controversial Howard Stern's talk show. Marie Jarry and Aaron Jarry were the $5,000 winners of Howard Stern's talk show contest "Ugliest Man, Hottest Wife". Once the pictures were released of Marie Jarry in a bikini on Howard Stern's show the community was up in arms and pressured Marie Jarry to quit her second grade teaching job.

These pictures were on Howard Stern's show, what parent of a second grader is going to let their child watch or even listen to this show? The community was out of line. Doesn't Marie Jarry get time off to go to the beach? The students would actually have a better chance of seeing her on the beach than on HOWARD STERN'S show, unless of course the parents of the second graders weren't monitoring what their children were doing. Marie Jarry is now suing the district.

If the circumstances of the bikini picture were a little different then I would be all for Marie Jarry being terminated. First, she entered a contest. What if she had entered the Miss America pageant? Would she have been terminated because of the swimsuit competition? Secondly, what child is going to see Howard Stern's show? If the child saw the show then the parents' values should be in question. Marie Jarry had every right to be on the Howard Stern's show wearing a bikini with her husband because of the contest she won. None of her students would have been the wiser had the parents kept their mouths shut. Third, doesn't the area have a pool that everyone goes to in the summer? Had Marie Jarry been at the pool in her bikini would the school have fired her?

Using a sick day to go to Howard Stern's show was wrong but using a sick day for something other than being sick is reason for termination?

Here are five common-sense ways employees can protect their jobs: