Home Depot --HQ for Illegal Aliens
Posted on 10/26/2009 11:32:04 AM PDT by TheDailyChange
Edited on 10/26/2009 11:34:40 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Last month, when Trevor Keezer started bringing his Bible to work, Keezer says his manager confronted him about the ["One nation under God, indivisible."] button. "That's when I was told it had to come off, or I would be sent home. So they sent me home for six straight days without pay. And then today they terminated me."
I’ve already emailed them - saw the story beside a video of Glen Beck. No real response yet...
So much for Home depot....
Trevor learned a good lesson that when you are on the company’s time, you are on the company’s dime and they can dictate what you can and cannot wear.
God is now “divisive”.
Just notified them I will no longer shop there. There is a Lowes right across the street.
Home Depot --HQ for Illegal Aliens
Now this, in addition to Home Depot’s unabashed support for homopervert activists. I haven’t shopped there in months.
If they let this guy do it, then they would have to let ALL employees do it. Think you would like to see the Muslim employee's button at the checkout line? How about a Leftist employee's political button?
Lowe’s Accused Of Firing Woman Over Xmas Pin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154319/posts
Home Deopt plans to celebrate Gay Pride...(Vanity...Utah)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022549/posts
Lowe’s refuses to call them “Christmas trees,” chooses to call them “Family trees”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1925241/posts
Exactly
BOYCOTT EVERYTHING! BOYCOTT EVERYONE!
Sheesh....
The company is paying you for your time while working, its great to take a stand on anything, but that freedom also has consequences, realize that.
Why even bring in the bible when the problem was over a button? It seems to have no place in the firing, but the button did. (perhaps trying to stir up some people's passions by throwing that into the mix) If the person said "sorry" and put the button away, I don't think they would have been fired...there is more to this story.
If someone tells the boss off or takes a stand on any subject and gets fired, maybe they will think before wearing buttons at work...
And Lowe's fired a woman for wearing a button that read, "It's called Christmas, for Christ's sake".
I'm so confused!
If I wasn’t a member here I would have never heard about any of those. Sometimes I rant to friends about the piss-poor forum tech here (i.e. even DSLreports has a better forum, technology-wise), but if there is one caveat, its that a forum based on 1990s technology is easier to read!
Dang! You know, before I posted that, I tried to recall if Lowes had done anything to tick me off. lol
Right, so its OK for Home Depot to support buggery in a public manner, but a guy can’t support his God?
If homedepot wants to do this, I am also free to spend my money with other suppliers. All I can say is ... dumb move during a recession!
You need to REMEMBER ONE THING FIRST!
This is AMERICA and in AMERICA GOD is on our currency, and in our constitution, and GOD should be able to be presented in America anywhere anytime and if it offends someone, they can catch the first flight back to where they came from from.
If were not for America, millions of people would not have a chance in HE!! of having their say, or voicing an opposing position know what I mean?
It was AMERICA that offered freedom and liberty, LETS REMEMBER THAT OK?
That would depend on who else at Home Depot got to wear buttons and did not have to take them off.....as to your other reply, I don't care to get into a religious argument about a nonreligious situation.. The situation concerned a button...not a bible..
Lowes is financed by GE Money (as is Gap and a few others - I worked for GE for awhile).
I guess it’s time to buy from mom & pop shops instead of the big fellas...
Perhaps if the button had been printed in Spanish? (sarcasm)
“If they let this guy do it, then they would have to let ALL employees do it. Think you would like to see the Muslim employee’s button at the checkout line?”
I’d hate to see a Muslim employee’s button, but would rather see that than have our First Amendment stifled. Either we have freedom of speech, or we don’t.
Unless you're a Muslim, of course.
Home Depot had every right to fire this guy. And I have every right to buy my stuff from their competitors. If it means I eventually run out of places to buy my things, that’s where the free market kicks in and supplies a place to shop where the owners are aligned with my values.
Do you have any citations that document a Home Depot policy stating that Muslim employees can where buttons proclaiming their faith while at work?
I do not seem to recall a mention of God in the US Constitution.
Could you please cite the Article or Amendment where God is mentioned?
You DO have freedom of speech -- when on your own time.
Speaking as somebody who used to be a business owner, my position is that when your on MY time, the only speech you perform is whatever speech I'm paying you to perform, at least when in sight of customers.
Save our economy and buy local.
“But Lowe’s/Home Depot/Wal-Mart employs people in our local economy...”
If the local shops start getting our business again, they just might have to hire them back.
>>>I’d hate to see a Muslim employee’s button, but would rather see that than have our First Amendment stifled. Either we have freedom of speech, or we don’t.<<<
While I don’t find the “One nation under God” button offensive, and would let my employees wear them, if I owned a store, this is really not a “free speech” issue, IMO.
We do not have anything close to absolute free speech rights at work. If you think we do, go tell your boss you think he is an idiot, or tell a customer you believe a competitor’s product is superior, and see what happens.
When he is at work, he represents Home Depot. He is wearing their uniform and they get to decide what buttons are allowed on it. I think Home Depot’s decision was dumb, but the company had the right to make it. I applaud him for standing up for his what he believed, as he obviously felt very strongly about it. However, his rights were not violated.
I stopped buying from Home Depot years ago, there is never an employee around and the ones there have an attitude problem because I presume they have to have all the answers for a lot more departments.
Lowes always have someone in a certain area thats fairly knowledgeable.More employees gives better customer service, Home Depot is deliberately trying to get away with as few humans as possible.
We try to buy everything from our local ACE Hardware. If they don’t have what we need, they have always ordered it for us. Wrote Home Depot off long ago because I got tired of wading through the illegals who jammed the parking lot and entrances and our local one is filthy and poorly organized.
BURN THEIR PHONE LINE UP!
Home Depot 6878
2700 Us Highway 441 S Okeechobee, FL 34974
863-467-0292
PHONE CALLS ARE CHEAP, FREEPERS, WE NEED TO MAKE A LOUD NOISE EVERY TIME SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENS!
If she spends the rest of her shift catching Hell over the phone she will pass the word up the line!
Home Depot 6878
2700 Us Highway 441 S
Okeechobee, FL 34974
863-467-0292
You are so wrong about this!
Wrong, your way is just another way to silence people!
“One Nation Under God Indivisible”
This anti-secession crowd makes me sick. Next thing he will be wearing a button promoting Volunteerism!!!!
He can support his God all he wants. On his own time.
The solution is simple. If you don’t like their policies[Home Depot or any other place of business] don’t patronize[don’t buy from them] stay away, go someplace else.
My daughter and I went into an antique shop and the owner and a customer were having a great time bashing republicans over Clinton's impeachment...
My daughter and I walked out, and as I passed them, just made the remark "Clinton thinks the White House is his own personal bordello" and kept on walking....They lost a potential sale because they couldn't keep their mouths shut..
Business is business and no business should be in a position of driving off potential customers because of personal agenda's...
I will not be boycotting Home Depot in my area because someone, somewhere mouthed off and got fired.. I cannot help but wonder if this employee had done other inappropriate things at work...
A difference of opinion is what makes a horse race...JMHO
If a person decides to bring a book to work and read it on his break time, what's that to the employer?
Just a second there...
Where can I get one of those buttons?
Home depot can't dictate what customers wear.
A lot more effective and meaningful than stupid boycotts.
Don’t let the door hitya...
>> BOYCOTT EVERYTHING! BOYCOTT EVERYONE!
>> Sheesh....
When stories like this break, I’m glad to hear about.
I really don’t have a problem with Home Depot - I shop there often enough. But situations like the one mentioned here give me good reason to shop elsewhere. Call it a boycott or call it sensibility - it’s the consumers’ choice!
If the guy was fired solely for the button he was wearing, then the Home Depot and the d.b. manager can go blank themselves - they pissed on the man’s Faith and Country - as they did mine.
One nation under God, indivisible indeed!
Where is the line? What if the guy was quoting Bible verses to customers with the claim that he needed to obey God rather than man?
So even if God did tell him to do that, God knew there would be consequences and the man would get fired.
Unless God told you to stop shopping there I dont see what good it does to stick up for a guy who was insubordinate to his employer for something he did not have an expected right to do.
amen it would be nice if the whole town wore them.
“I do not seem to recall a mention of God in the US Constitution.”
Aren’t you overlooking the fact that God’s presence is implicit throughout the Constitution? That is, the Constitution is all about a particular category of phenomena. I’ll let you try to figure out what those phenomena are. (Hint—we are endowed with them by our Creator)
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