Wear a Green Bay Packers tie and get fired

No Ann that is not the way the law is. We have become way to much a lover of what we call rights and think that no one has any authority over us. in the case of an employer they can fire you because you shirt is buttoned up crooked or they simply do not like the color dress or shirt you wore that day. There has been people fired for smoking at home when the company has a no smoking policy at work and the courts have upheld the firings.
In a real sense our employers are our masters just like scripture says and we are to obey them as the Lord. if this man who was fire had obeyed and took off the tie he would be employed today, but he made the choice to rebel and lost his job.

 

Oh, the joys of working sans a union contract.

>Roberts adds that Stone was offered five chances to take of the tie and refused to do it

Oh, the joys of being an independent, freedom loving person who refuses to join a union?

 

Seems to me the only difference is WHO/WHAT is the MASTER - the company or the union!!:sleeping_2:

Me? I'll take the company.

 

Best thing about football season: the day after the Super Bowl.

George Will said it best when he said something to the effect that football embodies everything wrong with American culture: short outbursts of violence followed by committee meetings.

Is it baseball season yet?

 

Point taken, but one should use at least a modicum of good sense and good taste, code or not.

Otherwise they could come in wearing their underwear and according to your reasoning, they should be allowed to stay at work. Reason...no formal dress code . I don't buy it.

That being said, I only want to point out that he was wearing the tie the day after the game and not the day before. Chicago had already lost. He should be allowed to switch allegiance. The local dog was out of the fight.

I believe it may have been an over-reaction by the employer, but the employee should have enough sense to realize some customers would object. Maybe even leave.

I'd have given him the day off, rather than lose a customer. Give him some time to think about it and come back in the next day sans GB tie, with the clear understanding that if he wore the tie the next day, he would be fired.

that's about as reasonable as I could be, but I'm not a Chicago fan.

 

There is no union for car salesmen. If there were, I can guarantee you they would all earn a lot less money.

 

Yeah...a union situation would have involved six months of picketing, some slashed tires, and money under the table to some guy with a unibrow...

Much better...

 

You guys are missing the point.

Conditions in the workplace were unBearable.