Home Depot Employee Fired for Wearing "God.." Button

Lulz.

Blessed is a religious term... so you might have to change that to "Good luck to America! From... anonymous"

 

They may be within their legal right to do so, but it's a stupid dbag move by Home Depot. NOT justified.

"One Nation Under God" is in the freaking pledge of allegiance. How is the "United we Stand" pin so much better?

Also, he had been wearing the pin for over a year.

 

So despite the fact that is had an almost 100 year history on coinage you choose to blame the cold war? You do see the picture I posted said 1866 right?

 

Just because it is in the pledge, and as shoval farce said, on the money, doesn't mean it should be.

And breaking a rule for a year doesn't mean it is any less justified when you get busted.

It's ticky tack move... and possibly Dbaggish... unless they asked him to remove it and he refused.

 

Don't be basso.

It became law due to the cold war.

I know it appeared on certain currency before that.

Either way, doesn't mean it SHOULD be there... because it *shouldn't*... you can't point to that as anything to justify religious BS infecting our government.

 

No, it was law long before that

the mint cannot wipe their butt without congressional approval

 

I don't think HD sees this as a religion or expression issue - it's just a uniform code. Sort of like the NFL and MLB where they fine players for anything that's not standard uniform or pre-approved by the league.

 

Well, as long as he wasn't speaking in tongues...

 

meh, Christians are just the latest group of people who society deems it socially acceptable to discriminate.

 

I don't think the Bible says you HAVE to wear a pin that says "One Nation Under God," so it's not the same as a burqa. If he was wearing a necklace with a cross on it I imagine nobody would say anything.

 

So you think HD would have allowed buttons that said "Praise Allah" or whatever?

 

It's hardly a controversial phrase, whether or not "it should be" on coins. It's not even overly political or religious. It's quite similar to "United We Stand" pin they offered , in that it shows support for the country.

It is a dbaggish move whether they asked him to remove it or not. Just because you ask an employee to do something doesn't make it right.

 

Home Depot has employees, or at least had an employee? Why can't I ever find one when I need one?

 

That is actually a Muslim phrase. If the pin had said "Praise Jesus" then this would make sense.

My guess is they wanted to get rid of the employee anyways, or some customer/employee complained and it's an example of political correctness.

 

Agreed - I was just referring to LL's contention that Christians are being discriminated against here. I don't see it as a particularly religious phrase.

From my understanding of the policy, it's not really a PC thing either - just a uniform thing. If he had a button that said "Have a fantastic day!", he would/should be asked to remove it from what I gather unless it's on the corporate list of approved pins.

 

thats what i was thinking too.

its similar to the hotel de no espanol in that its a private business and home depot has a right to run it how they see fit, but this can only be bad for business - if its only about the pin than i think they might have gone overboard. but if he was wearing it for a year and only now got in trouble i have to think that there was something else afoot.

the article says that they do have a policy in place against stuff like that so the only way he has a case is if other workers were able to get away w/ wearing similar stuff. or even like a metallica pin or something...can employees wear a pin for a band they like or some entertainment related thing and if so is that any different than a religious or political one - metallica might offend someone too.

 

But he had been wearing it for over a year, which makes me question that. Maybe no one cared for over a year until on sensitive person decided to make an issue out of it.

 

Certainly true - I'd be curious to hear from HD why it wasn't an issue for a year.

 

He got fired because they wanted HIM to want more pins but since he was only wearing that one lame ass pin, he got canned.

 

True, he was kind of going with the bare minimum 17 pins, whereas Brian is sporting 37 pins.

of course, I guess they could have just made the minimum 37 pins.