Home Depot fires Employee for Religious/PAtriotic Button

Mike_Flores

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I have always received a military discount at HOME DEPOT ( just recieved one this past saturday)

LOWES never gives one.

I will continue to shop at HOME DEPOT.

BTW- I use to go to work wearing a button that said "MUSTACHE RIDES...5 CENTS"
My boss told me the wearing of buttons, not company oriented, were against company policy. I refused to remove it. The next day the boss handed me a nickel and demanded his ride.
I removed it.

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jackhunter1

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Originally posted by Motive25:
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Originally posted by Sand_Flea:

Sure ya can when folks on both sides stop rubbing the other sides noses in their business. But as long as some insist on proselytizing then there will be friction. We all share a common heritage and flag but our faith can be different or little or great or none at all. But no one gets to co-opt the common flag and heritage as the symbol of their particular faith. The my God v Your God isn't what this country stands for. We are indivisible because the United States could not be separated.

Sand_Flea,

Add my kudos to Motive's. Well written!

Jack

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Lowe's has given me a discount with ID on the holidays that Home Depot offers them.

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Sounds like a "Godphobic" saw the pin and complained. Ya all know now, these days ya can't even offend a pizz ant.

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Originally posted by L0A1:
I don't see the problem here folks.

If the man violated the Workplace dresscode, they have every right to terminate his employment.

Whereis the problem??

The so called Christian right seems to thinks it is always being persecuted whenever it is not allowed to force everyone else to believe and act as they think they should.

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Originally posted by SignalSgtWilliams:
Sounds like a "Godphobic" saw the pin and complained. Ya all know now, these days ya can't even offend a pizz ant.

More likely he felt he had to impose his religion on others and after being given many chances to follow the rules and REFUSING was told to move on.

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Originally posted by rayld2:
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Originally posted by SignalSgtWilliams:
Sounds like a "Godphobic" saw the pin and complained. Ya all know now, these days ya can't even offend a pizz ant.
More likely he felt he had to impose his religion on others and after being given many chances to follow the rules and REFUSING was told to move on.

Wearing a pin is like a bumper sticker, it tells people how "you' think. If he was passing out literature to customers, he would then be "imposing" his religious beliefs off on others.....big difference.

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Originally posted by SignalSgtWilliams:
Sounds like a "Godphobic" saw the pin and complained. Ya all know now, these days ya can't even offend a pizz ant.

Would you advocate wearing such a pin on a military uniform?

How is this any different. When you attach a political/religious message to a work uniform you attach that message to your employer - literally and figuratively. It being the employer's job, not his, they are well within their rights to tell him what to wear over the Home Depot logo on his apron. You are similarly welcome to refrain from shopping at their store until someone sends out a chain email telling you how horrible some other home improvement chain supposedly is.

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Originally posted by Motive25:
Craig Fishel, a spokesperson for The Home Depot, said he could not comment on specific personnel issues, but added:

"The company's dress code policy states that we do not allow non-company buttons, regardless of their message or content."

Fishel says Home Depot has a "proud history" of supporting the military, and that it sanctions several of its own buttons for employees to wear, including one that reads: "United We Stand."

Fishel says the company gives employees several warnings when they violate the dress policy before terminating them.

***http://www.ksdk.com/news/world/story.aspx?storyid=188254&catid=28]http://www.ksdk.com/news/world...ryid=188254&catid=28***

Being in the middle of a home renovation, I for one am not going to drive by the Home Depot that is on my way home from work over something like this.

Their explanation sounds perfectly reasonable and he'll get no sympathy from me. As much as the fired employee would like us to believe it, this is not an issue of anti-Christian persecution. If I'd been working at the same store and wearing the same button with a red line through the "under God" part I would likely have been fired right along with him, and rightly so. He can express himself any way he wants on his own time. But when they are paying him to represent their company to the public they have a right to set dress codes and standards of behavior in order to maintain the image they want for their company. They also have a right to fire him if he refuses to conform to those standards.

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Originally posted by SignalSgtWilliams:
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Originally posted by rayld2:
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Originally posted by SignalSgtWilliams:
Sounds like a "Godphobic" saw the pin and complained. Ya all know now, these days ya can't even offend a pizz ant.
More likely he felt he had to impose his religion on others and after being given many chances to follow the rules and REFUSING was told to move on.

Wearing a pin is like a bumper sticker, it tells people how "you' think. If he was passing out literature to customers, he would then be "imposing" his religious beliefs off on others.....big difference.

So, would you also defend me if I chose to work there while wearing a button that said "Godless America"? Or how about the same button he wore, but with the "under God" part crossed out? That would also only tell people what I think...no difference. Or is your approval or objection based solely on whether you agree with the message or not?

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Maybe Home Depot should stop taking money, since it has "In God We Trust" on it - ?

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a button that said "Godless America"? Or how about the same button he wore, but with the "under God" part crossed out?

The first would make sense either way, because it is becoming very true. The second, if "under God" were left out, no problem - if struck through with a line - might be seen as an attempt to insight riot . . .

Don't forget that Home Depot was hit by a Muslim Extremist car bomber a few years back, and is bending over backwards to be PC so as not to be targeted again:

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/56094

Terrorism works - -

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Originally posted by greywolfghost:
Maybe Home Depot should stop taking money, since it has "In God We Trust" on it - ?

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a button that said "Godless America"? Or how about the same button he wore, but with the "under God" part crossed out?

The first would make sense either way, because it is becoming very true. The second, if "under God" were left out, no problem - if struck through with a line - might be seen as an attempt to insight riot . . .

Don't forget that Home Depot was hit by a Muslim Extremist car bomber a few years back, and is bending over backwards to be PC so as not to be targeted again:

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/56094

Terrorism works - -

greywolfghost what a load a BS. HD has a dress code this guy REFUSED to follow it. Except in the imagination of some Christians who WANT to beleive they are persecuted there is NOTHING more to this story.

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Originally posted by greywolfghost:
Maybe Home Depot should stop taking money, since it has "In God We Trust" on it - ?

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a button that said "Godless America"? Or how about the same button he wore, but with the "under God" part crossed out?

The first would make sense either way, because it is becoming very true.
A poll published in the Washington Post last year showed that 92% of Americans believed in God or higher authority. The continued carping by fundamentalists that they are victims of anti-faith or anti-god liberals is just a smokescreen so that they can push their own agenda. God help those that disagree with their idea of God. Sounds more like the taliban/al queda than America the Republic.

The second, if "under God" were left out, no problem - if struck through with a line - might be seen as an attempt to insight riot . . .

Don't forget that Home Depot was hit by a Muslim Extremist car bomber a few years back, and is bending over backwards to be PC so as not to be targeted again:

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/56094

Terrorism works - -

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Originally posted by greywolfghost:
Actual button in question:

Why would someone decide to wear a button that he knew is divisive, though it says it isn't, to support a brother who's fighting for freedoms for a people whose undivided support he needs?

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Home De-Pot is a pin head

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Originally posted by billbright:
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Originally posted by greywolfghost:
Actual button in question:

Why would someone decide to wear a button that he knew is divisive, though it says it isn't, to support a brother who's fighting for freedoms for a people whose undivided support he needs?

Common sense is not a common commodity any more.

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Originally posted by greywolfghost:
Maybe Home Depot should stop taking money, since it has "In God We Trust" on it - ?

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a button that said "Godless America"? Or how about the same button he wore, but with the "under God" part crossed out?

The first would make sense either way, because it is becoming very true. The second, if "under God" were left out, no problem - if struck through with a line - might be seen as an attempt to insight riot . . .

Don't forget that Home Depot was hit by a Muslim Extremist car bomber a few years back, and is bending over backwards to be PC so as not to be targeted again:

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/56094

Terrorism works - -

ya how about a silver dollar belt buckle!

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Originally posted by Sand_Flea:
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Originally posted by billbright:
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Originally posted by greywolfghost:
Actual button in question:

Why would someone decide to wear a button that he knew is divisive, though it says it isn't, to support a brother who's fighting for freedoms for a people whose undivided support he needs?

Common sense is not a common commodity any more.

Especially in that subset of Christians who want to believe they are persecuted.

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Originally posted by SignalSgtWilliams:
Sounds like a "Godphobic" saw the pin and complained. Ya all know now, these days ya can't even offend a pizz ant.

Would you advocate wearing such a pin on a military uniform?

How is this any different. When you attach a political/religious message to a work uniform you attach that message to your employer - literally and figuratively. It being the employer's job, not his, they are well within their rights to tell him what to wear over the Home Depot logo on his apron. You are similarly welcome to refrain from shopping at their store until someone sends out a chain email telling you how horrible some other home improvement chain supposedly is.

Whether you know it or not or rather have forgotten, there is a difference between a military uniform and a Home Depot vest.

If I owned HD, everyone 'would' wear that pin and anyone refusing would get their arse fired. Must be the american born and bred in me.......

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