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The Cult of Chick-fil-A
Forbes ^
| 07.23.07
| Emily Schmall
Posted on 08/03/2012 12:26:40 PM PDT by ExxonPatrolUs
Yadkowski, 33, came to Chick-fil-A when he was living in a group foster home created by Chick-fil-A founder and chairman S. Truett Cathy. "I tell the kids, 'This is not just selling sandwiches; it pays for your upbringing,'" says Yadkowski, a hardworking, happily married Southern Baptist who plans to work with Chick-fil-A for life.
But Danielle Alderson, 30, a Baltimore operator, says she can't hire a good manager who, say, moonlights at a strip club because it would irk the company. "We are watched very closely by Chick-fil-A," she says. "It's very weird."
Is it legal? There are no federal laws that prohibit companies from asking nosy questions about religion and marital status during interviews.
Aziz Latif, a former Chick-fil-A restaurant manager in Houston, sued the company in 2002 after Latif, a Muslim, says he was fired a day after he didn't participate in a group prayer to Jesus Christ.
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To: ExxonPatrolUs
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posted on
08/03/2012 12:28:52 PM PDT
by
GoCards
(I am a Hobbit)
To: ExxonPatrolUs
Build a bridge, Emily, you whiny loser.
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posted on
08/03/2012 12:29:55 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(OWS = The Great American Snivel War)
To: ExxonPatrolUs
‘Is it legal?” Um, sweets, We the People can start a business and hire anyone we want. It is called FREEDOM. You might look that up.
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posted on
08/03/2012 12:32:54 PM PDT
by
bboop
(Without justice, what else is the State but a great band of robbers? St. Augustine)
To: ExxonPatrolUs
Is it legal? There are no federal laws that prohibit companies from asking nosy questions about religion and marital status during interviews.
Yes it is legal. Don't like, it go somewhere else.
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posted on
08/03/2012 12:33:11 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Psycho_Bunny
They actually do not get it. They don’t get it at all. We, their perceived enemies, aren’t just a few Christians they’ve captured and placed before the lions in sport in the Coliseum. Probably 100 million or more Americans, Americans tired of perverts, tired of undeserving minority preferences, tired of liberal madness, tired of sloth, avarice and greed.
CFA’s advocacy, shown by the support they’ve gotten isn’t purely a Christian thing - it’s decency, morals, and values - something the liberals don’t have and therefore cannot understand.
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posted on
08/03/2012 12:34:58 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: ExxonPatrolUs
Is it legal? There are no federal laws that prohibit companies from asking nosy questions about religion and marital status during interviews. You can prohibit your employees from smoking tobacco even off work hours.
In 2004/2005 there were liberal owned software firms that blacklisted those who'd voted for Bush.
There is no "hate" code for discriminating against someone's politics (race, creed, color, sex, and in some markets "sexual preference").
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posted on
08/03/2012 12:35:25 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Eric Holder's NAACP rally against the voter ID laws required the press to bring govt issue photo ID.)
To: ExxonPatrolUs
To: ExxonPatrolUs
But Danielle Alderson, 30, a Baltimore operator, says she can't hire a good manager who, say, moonlights at a strip club because it would irk the company. "We are watched very closely by Chick-fil-A," she says. "It's very weird."
CFA should look very closely at any operator who thinks hiring a stripper for a management job (or ANY job) would be a good idea.
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posted on
08/03/2012 12:36:38 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: ExxonPatrolUs
Is it legal? There are no federal laws that prohibit companies from asking nosy questions about religion and marital status during interviews. Oh, now we hear about stuff like this? Now that the Left has a target (let's dig up dirt on CFA!)? The Dems and their propaganda arm (the "news" media) are getting very good at digging up dirt on their enemies (or making it up when they can't find any real stuff).
Someday, enough people are going to wake up and ask, "Why is it only on one side of the political spectrum that the media can dig up dirt?"
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posted on
08/03/2012 12:36:56 PM PDT
by
jeffc
(Welcome to the United Socialist States of America)
To: jeffc
From the article:
"They screen prospective operators for their loyalty, wholesome values and willingness to buy into Chick-fil-A's in-your-face Christian credo..."
Slanted article, anyone?
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posted on
08/03/2012 12:40:49 PM PDT
by
jeffc
(Welcome to the United Socialist States of America)
To: ExxonPatrolUs
It’s not surprising. I recently applied for a job in a business that is owned by the Southern Baptists and they wanted you to declare if you had “an association with alcohol”. I went by the store to ask some employees for a clarification and was told it isn’t a big deal they just want to make sure your behavior won’t embarrass them as a Christian employer.
I was still put off a bit by the question. I sometimes have a drink but I’ve never been drunk.
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posted on
08/03/2012 12:41:42 PM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(Our economy won't heal until one particular black man is unemployed.)
To: ExxonPatrolUs
BTW, this article is 5 years old.
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posted on
08/03/2012 12:42:52 PM PDT
by
Sisku Hanne
(All you have to do is the next right thing.)
To: bboop
As far as I’m concerned we need to go back to the days when a business could refuse service to ANYONE for any reason. Someone will be along shortly to inform me that I’m a racist but I really couldn’t care less. A truly free market would quickly fill the niches.
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posted on
08/03/2012 12:43:08 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: ExxonPatrolUs
Anti-Christian bigot alert.
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posted on
08/03/2012 12:48:53 PM PDT
by
OpusatFR
To: Responsibility2nd
Maybe he should ask that question to the Obama Administration concerning Secret Service duty in Columbia. It looks like their off-duty activities ultimately hurt the image of the entire Secret Service.
To: bboop
I don't know about you guys, but if I go into a place to eat or to a place where I am waited on by a person with dirty clothes, hardware on his/her face, dirty hair, tattoos, etc., I am not in a real hurry to go back.
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posted on
08/03/2012 12:53:05 PM PDT
by
SMARTY
("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
To: cripplecreek
As far as Im concerned we need to go back to the days when a business could refuse service to ANYONE for any reason. Someone will be along shortly to inform me that Im a racist but I really couldnt care less. A truly free market would quickly fill the niches.
I AGREE! Freedom of association is much more important than not hurting someone's feelings!
The Jim Crow laws were simply overbearing and ridiculous; but the application of "civil rights" has become just as overbearing and ridiculous! As another FReeper said, the US Government has instituted that apparently two wrongs DOES make it right!
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posted on
08/03/2012 12:54:37 PM PDT
by
ExTxMarine
(PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
To: Sisku Hanne
How long before Steve Forbes yanks it?
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posted on
08/03/2012 12:55:45 PM PDT
by
ExxonPatrolUs
("Trizzle, trazzle, trozzle, trome, time for this one to come home" - Mr Wizard)
To: ExxonPatrolUs
Utterly moronic nonsense. Guess the concept of Personal Property is complete alien to these idiot iq level Leftists. You have NO right to demand a private business be run to suit your bigoted emotion based political dogmas.
Get a grip clown posse. Don't like Chic-Fil-A don't eat there. It these neo-Facist idiots who think they can dictate their political dogmas to everyone else that are the threat here, not Chic-Fil-Al.
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posted on
08/03/2012 1:02:21 PM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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