Monday, September 13, 2004
MBF Watch: Fired, over a Kerry bumper sticker
Boy, these people really know how to put the boot in, don't they?
God.
Woman works 60 hours at a bagging machine and gets fired over a bumper sticker. Sick, sick, sick.
I've got to put out my candle in the tiny room under the stairs at The Mighty Corrente Building, so I won't have time to find out about Gaddis, or Enviromate, but maybe tomorrow...
NOTE This is the second political firing (that we know of) in Bush's America (See back here). Pathetic.
"We were going back to work from break, and my manager told me that Phil said to remove the sticker off my car or I was fired," she said. "I told him that Phil couldn't tell me who to vote for. He said, 'Go tell him.' "
She went to Gaddis' office, knocked on the door and entered on his orders.
"Phil and another man who works there were there," she said. "I asked him if he said to remove the sticker and he said, 'Yes, I did.' I told him he couldn't tell me who to vote for. When I told him that, he told me, 'I own this place.' I told him he still couldn't tell me who to vote for."
Gobbell said Gaddis told her to "get out of here."
"I asked him if I was fired and he told me he was thinking about it," she said. "I said, 'Well, am I fired?' He hollered and said, 'Get out of here and shut the door.' "
She said her manager was standing in another room and she asked him if that meant for her to go back to work or go home. The manager told her to go back to work, but he came back a few minutes later and said, " 'I reckon you're fired. You could either work for him or John Kerry,' " Gobbell said.
Gobbell said she was averaging 50 to 60 hours a week on the plant's bagging machine.
"The lady there (at the unemployment commission) said that she has never heard of a firing like this before," Gobbell said.
(via The Decatur Daily from Salon)
God.
Woman works 60 hours at a bagging machine and gets fired over a bumper sticker. Sick, sick, sick.
I've got to put out my candle in the tiny room under the stairs at The Mighty Corrente Building, so I won't have time to find out about Gaddis, or Enviromate, but maybe tomorrow...
NOTE This is the second political firing (that we know of) in Bush's America (See back here). Pathetic.