Judge Judy give him a judgment of $1.
Posted on 04/16/2017 12:59:15 PM PDT by JoeProBono
A Montana State University professor is suing the world’s largest retailer for libel after, he says, an employee at the Bozeman store listed the occupation on the professor’s fishing license as a toilet cleaner.
Gilbert Kalonde, assistant professor of technology education at MSU, filed the suit Thursday in Gallatin County District Court. He is being represented by Jim Taylor, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana.
According to the complaint:
In April 2015, Kalonde went to Wal-Mart to buy a Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks fishing license.
As part of the process to receive a fishing license, Kalonde had to provide his occupation. He said he told the Wal-Mart employee that he worked for MSU and gave him identification that showed he worked for the university.
But instead of putting Kalonde’s correct occupation on the license, the Wal-Mart employee entered “clean toilets” into the FWP database as Kalonde’s occupation.
The suit claims the move was done to expose Kalonde to “hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy.”
On Feb. 24, 2016, Kalonde renewed his fishing license at Wal-Mart. He said he told the employee that he worked for MSU, but “clean toilets” was left as Kalonde’s occupation on his license.
Kalonde said that later during a lunch break at the university, he showed his teaching assistant his license while some of his other students were around. The teaching assistant saw Kalonde’s listed occupation and asked if he had changed jobs.
Kalonde says he was “very shocked and embarrassed” by the incident.
“In (Kalonde’s) home country of Zambia, the people that do this work are the lowest social class, and are shunned and avoided by society,” the suit said.
Two days after getting his license renewed, Kalonde returned to Wal-Mart and asked for a corrected license and a written apology. An apology was never provided, he said.
Wal-Mart has a legal responsibility to properly train and monitor the actions of its employees, the suit argues.
Kalonde is seeking unspecified damages.
Wal-Mart did not respond to a request for comment.
I’m getting the idea that “occupation” is only listed on this guy’s license.
Not those from University Of Michigan
What discipline is technology edumacation anyway?
Judge Judy give him a judgment of $1.
Wow! Guess it's a good thing he's not in his country. In the good old U.S. of A, these positions are usually union jobs that pay $35-45 per hour!
How do we know what he said when he applied? He could have set Walmart up.
Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Michigan....
I buy bait and fishing tackle at WalMart, why not renew my license there?
MtSU’s colors are maize and blue....
Mike Hunt.
“In (Kalonde’s) home country of Zambia, the people that do this work are the lowest social class, and are shunned and avoided by society,” the suit said.
I did not realize Zambia was so full of snotty, better-than-u types. Imagine if no one cleaned toilets.
In the words of Ted Baxter, via Caddyshack, “the world needs ditch diggers too”.
I made millions of dollars cleaning toilets. I’m proud to be an American toilet cleaner. I saw it as a golden opportunity, and I took it. I consider myself blessed to be a toilet cleaner. I thank God for my opportunities. This guy would probably make more money and have more dignity cleaning toilets than teaching if he had any idea of what he was doing.
Headline is misleading. Everyone knows MSU stands for Michigan State University.
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Yep.
www.msu.edu is Michigan State.
GO GREEN!
I call bullshit.
He had the license for a year. Didn’t see the cleans toilets or did not care.
Went back to the same store to renew the license and did not ask for the “cleans toilets” to be changed.
Then supposed shows license to someone at the school (really?) who notices the “cleans toilets” so now he is upset and demands a new license and apology, claims he doesn’t get an apology and now has an ACLU lawyer to sue Walmart?
As bogus as it gets!
For sure. I just removed one a few days ago, from a house I bought. Darn thing must have weighed more than I do. I dragged it outside, let Mother Nature have at it before it goes into a dumpster where people sometimes dive for treasure. It looked so deadly toxic; I'd rather touch Rappaccini's daughter.
we get it...another funny little thing that just pops up....poor liddle snowflake...
I’m pretty sure 99.9% of the folks in Ann Arbor know what MSU stands for.
If I ever fill out one of these forms, I will list my occupation as “Dental Floss Tycoon.”
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