MOULTON — Lynne Gobbell never imagined the cost of a John Kerry-John Edwards bumper sticker could run so high. Posted on 09/12/2004 4:54:10 PM PDT by GeorgiaFreeper
MOULTON — Lynne Gobbell never imagined the cost of a John Kerry-John Edwards bumper sticker could run so high.
DAILY Photo by Clyde Stancil Lynne Gobbell said her boss fired her last week because of the Kerry-Edwards campaign sticker on the back of her car. Gobbell of Moulton didn't pay a cent for the sticker that she proudly displays on the rear windshield of her Chevrolet Lumina, but said it cost her job at a local factory after it angered her boss, Phil Gaddis.
Gaddis, a Decatur bankruptcy attorney, owns Enviromate, a cellulose insulation company in Moulton.
Gaddis did not return phone calls from THE DAILY about the alleged Thursday firing.
Gobbell said she consulted a lawyer, but then changed her mind about going to see him. She said she has cried about the incident and must do without income for three weeks while the state unemployment commission decides if she is eligible for compensation.
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Do you believe it is your right to put something on my property?
I have as much right as the large lady we have been discussing.
Do you believe you have a right to post something on my property?
You definitely have the right to put anything on your property (your car), even if that car is parked in my driveway, as long as I invited you to be parked in my driveway.
Wow!
It really is that simple, huh? Hahahahaha.
Oh I am so dumb and you are so smart. You just set me up to answer it the way you wanted. Like I did not see your anology coming a mile down the road.
Unfortunately you are wrong.
The bumper sticker on her property has nothing to do with his property.
He should have asked her to move the car, not fire her. That is the logical extension of your anology.
This woman needs to come over to Huntsville and hire on with the government in a nonessential job. Both MSFC and the Army had "liberal leave for all nonessential employees" today because of Ivan. All of us conservatives had drive in to work, through the wind and rain, whether we were essential or not. But, the line was shorter at the gate without all of the liberals.
His request was inappropriate to begin with.
If she had erected a sign on his property yes, then he wuld be valid. She had a bumper sticker on her car. Did he have a consistent policy about bumber stickers?
I must wonder why you chose to give so much power and control to an employer over a persons behaviors that are not illegal.
What makes the business owner all so powerful to you?
What a chuckle.... only conservatives work hard. Just like welfare is just a bunch of lazy, ignorant people of color.
Are you all so insecure with yourselves that you allow yourselves to believe you have no right to even the basic job protections? Or that only that which you do or believe is absolutely right and everyone else is absolutely wrong?
How were you ever conditioned into believing that your are of such little value?
Maybe this occured because you don't value others. How can one like themselves when they can't like anyone else.
It has been interesting, but I must go now.
Just remember it is how you live your life in Christ's example that matters.
Hate is not what Christ taught. Demonizing people different than yourself does not serve His purpose. Inclusion not exclusion.
The business owner owns the business. I believe in private ownership and minimal governmental intervention in private affairs. As the owner, he gets to run it in any legal way that he sees fit. If he did not want to have hard-core liberals working for him, that is his choice. She chose skerry over loyalty to the company. He did not ask her to perform an immoral or illegal act. Therefore, she had to make the decision what was more important - a job or making a point. She chose to make a point. Her loss. The company is probably better off. I would guess that even if she stayed, she would be a bone of contention and causing unrest.
Whoa there. Don't know about you but I was kidding.
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