BUS DRIVER FIRED FOR GIVING BUSH "THE FINGER" FILES GRIEVANCE

The Houston Chronicle ^ | 2 November 2006 | Gene Johnson

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Giving the finger on a school bus should be grounds for dismissal, no matter who it's directed at.

[Beagle8U]

Ok, so you did but were fired for expressing your "free speach"?

[P-Marlowe]

Of course they said they fired her because it was obscene. They aren't stupid enough to say "We fired you because you flipped off the President."

I would have fired her for flipping off Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro.

She has no business flipping off anyone while she is driving children around in a bus with the name of the School District emblazoned on the side.

I do hope you don't use that kind of logic on your bar exam. The facts are that she was fired for flipping off someone. You have no facts to justify your conclusion that it was a ruse and the she was fired because it was the president. I suspect that nobody who was involved in that firing voted for Bush and that everyone involved is a NEA democrat. But the fact is that the bus driver's BEHAVIOR was unacceptable, and no matter who that gesture was pointed at, she deserved to be fired.

[jude24]

Ok, so you did but were fired for expressing your "free speach"?

Nope.

[Madame Dufarge]

The bus driver is a municipal employee and the taxpayers pay her salary. As such, she's required to be apolitical while on the job (shut up and drive).

As a purported adult, she shouldn't be engaging in this behavior while a busful of children is in her charge.

If she wants to run screaming through the streets waving an "Impeach Bush" sign over her head on her own time, that's fine.

[jude24]

You have no facts to justify your conclusion that it was a ruse and the she was fired because it was the president.

Credibility is an issue of fact for a jury.

[P-Marlowe]

Credibility is an issue of fact for a jury.

Where is the evidence that the district is lying?

[Excellence]

My goodness! What was this from!

[mutley]

"Credibility is an issue of fact for a jury."

Just stop it. You're bleeding profusely.

[Mark was here]

The 43-year-old driver, whose name was not released,

The pig can feed at the public trough yet her name can not be released?

I say if she is proud enough to sing her name on the back of a public paycheck, everything she accomplishes during the day should be public knowledge.

If you do not want the public to know what you did ... don't work for the public.

[EyeGuy]

Where do I file my grievance against grievances?

[Excellence]

You do not have the right to say "F- you" in front of my babies.

[jude24]

Where is the evidence that the district is lying?

Discovery hasn't occurred yet.

[roses of sharon]

BDS requires all rational thought to be suppressed!

[jude24]

You do not have the right to say "F- you" in front of my babies.

Won't somebody please think of the children???!!!

[horse_doc]

Of course they said they fired her because it was obscene

So what if she "articulates" by grabbing her crotch, that's o.k.? Can she "articulate" by simulating oral sex with a bananna? Can she "articulate" by screaming "cxckSxcker" at someone she hates, politically?

No. She's got a job, and part of that job means that she obeys a code of conduct. And if one of my employees flips off Howard Dean himself, while she's on the clock, I fire her.

[Beagle8U]

Well, unless you own your own company you would get fired for that. In the public or private sector.

You have your freedom of speech and anyone that you work for has the right to fire you.

If you worked for me I would fire you for being obtuse, just because I can.

[mutley]

"And if one of my employees flips off Howard Dean himself, while she's on the clock, I fire her."

But it'd be worth it.

[Mark was here]

So much for free speech.

Say you are publishing a book about birds, the person you hire to write about birds writes about fish because she finds them more interesting than birds.

I suppose you would then have articles about fish in your bird book as to not offend the "Free Speech" rights of the gal you hired.

The driver was hired to drive the bus and be courteous towards the public, not to be out there representing the bus company, flipping anyone off. Just as your writer was hired to write about birds.

The driver can flip anyone one off on his own time, just as your writer can sell his fish stories to anyone else.

His Free Speech rights, to write about fish, do not compel you to buy his fish stories, as far as I can tell, why do you think otherwise?

[007girl]

I think he was responding to Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Howard Dean, Hillary/Bill, Jack Murtha, Barbara Streisand, The Dixie Chicks, Al Gore, Hugo Chavez, M. Ahmadinejad, Pink, my sister-in-law....just kidding! heheheee I'm sure it's photo shopped!