Man fired over Packers tie in Chicago
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I can actually see that one because that's an employee providing bad publicity for his or her own company being on "public record" preferring the competitor's product.
But the tie...honestly, I think that customers that would get THAT upset over a tie are not the kind of stable people you would want in your establishment anyway. I say this boss is petty, and if he was willing to fire someone on something THAT tiny, he's not someone a reasonable person would want to work for anyway.
^Given that logic its surprising more people are not fired if they are caught driving a Ford when they work for another auto maker etc, which isn't uncommon.
I mean if thats all they place had was a Bud lite come on, or it says he know what really goes into the brew, lol
Well the article does have his boss saying that "We spend 20,000-dollars a month on advertising with the Bears on (radio) during the season..." so I think it's more than being a sore loser. He didn't want him undoing whatever promotions or campaigns they had spent money on. They're pretty vague on what these promotions actually were but what kind of idiot would wear a Packers tie around here anyway? It's work, be a professional.
It's Chicago. If you're a Packers fan, keep it to yourself.
Ah, but the Miller employee was off work when he was seen drinking a Bud. The company has no business firing somebody for whatever is done while not on the clock. They have no right to do that - an employee's time off is none of the employer's business. It's not like the guy was wearing his Miller uniform, right? (Or was he?)
This Chicago thing, OTOH, was logical. When on the clock, you wear whatever the boss says. End of story.
No one should ever have to keep their choice of teams silent.
If you're at work and your boss tells you to, you'd better.
^ Well, yeah, as I said, it's different when you are actually on the clock. I meant in general. People shouldn't have to, for instance, feel their lives are threatened if they walk through the streets of Chicago with Packers gear on, or in L.A. wearing Giants gear, or Yankee stuff in Boston, etc. etc.
Furthermore, it would have been different if this man wasn't simply prohibited from wearing Packers gear, but had been ordered TO wear Bears stuff. That would have been over the line, even at work...
Furthermore, it would have been different if this man wasn't simply prohibited from wearing Packers gear, but had been ordered TO wear Bears stuff. That would have been over the line, even at work...
If you're talking about a unionized employee, then I'd imagine if that's the case it would be in the contract. Otherwise, what this guy does that got publicity is fair game. That's at-will employment for you. Under the law, you can in fact even be fired for a bad reason or no reason at all, as long as it's not a reason forbidden by specific legislation (i.e. an outright civil rights violation).
Yep. The boss may be an a-hole about the tie, and I will agree with that all day, but there was absolutely nothing illegal about it unless something racial or gender-based or something like that was also going on.
Man talk about no sense of humor,..I worked in an office building in Dallas TX in the early 90s I'm a 49ers fan and wasn't shy about my fandom..BUT I never showed any disrespect for the Cowboys fans around me...
There was an Eagles fan that worked in the same company, he was loud rude and disrespectful to any other teams fans.(not in a friendly office banter way either)
He was terminated as a disruptive influence...during football season...
Perhaps this uber-fan was the same way..
There was an Eagles fan that worked in the same company, he was loud rude and disrespectful to any other teams fans.(not in a friendly office banter way either)
He was terminated as a disruptive influence...during football season...
Perhaps this uber-fan was the same way..
I don't really think there's much to see here. Boss wants to fire a capable salesman over a tie? Totally his right. It sounds to me like he's uptight and worried about the wrong things-- blowing money on team promotions when every dime would have been better spent on tangible incentives. Nobody buys a car because of how the bloody place is decorated or a salesman's tie.
I mean, it's not like he wore a Miami tie in Cleveland they day after LeBron left...
I mean, it's not like he wore a Miami tie in Cleveland they day after LeBron left...
Assuming this guy wasn't wearing his company gear while at this event, how could there possibly be publicity?
Thank god I hate sports and will never have to worry about this at my job. 
If they had the guy's name in the paper, people are going to know where he works. It's amazing how quickly something like that can go viral--even on a local scale.
Doing that and actually getting in the newspaper for it is no different than if I were to come on here and represent myself as an employee of my company and then say something unfavorable about our product. Whether I did it on company time or on my off hours wouldn't matter; I could still get in trouble for doing it.
It's not the fact that he was drinking a Bud that I think the company could object to--it's the fact that this guy went and got in the newspaper doing it.
Gives a whole new meaning to "don't ask, don't tell."
Regarding the guy at the Brewers game, it's weird that in principle, Miller (for whom the Brewers stadium is named) apparently sees no problem with the Brewers selling Anheuser-Busch products in Miller Park in the first place.
Actually, I can see the employee getting fired for drinking a Bud when Miller products were certainly available.
I was at a fund-raising event once where I met a Budweiser distributor. None of the beer products at the event were Anheuser Busch, and he was drinking non A-B beer. When I mentioned something about it in passing, he said he'd only be obligated to drink a Bud product if a Bud product was available.
When I lived in Lexington, KY, there was a story in the newspaper about a guy at a Coke bottling plant getting fired for bringing his Burger King meal into the plant for lunch. The drink was a Pepsi.
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