Posted on 11/19/2011 12:14:24 PM PST by thackney
A Georgia factory worker claims in a federal lawsuit that he was fired after he refused to wear a 666 sticker he feared would doom him to eternal damnation.
Billy E. Hyatt claims he was fired from Pliant Corp., a plastics factory in northern Georgia near Dalton, after he refused to wear a sticker proclaiming that his factory had been accident-free for 666 days. That number is considered the "mark of the beast" in the Bible's Book of Revelation describing the apocalypse.
Hyatt, who said he's a devout Christian, had worked for the north Georgia plastics company since June 2007 and like other employees wore stickers each day that proclaimed how long the factory had gone without an accident.
But he grew nervous in early 2009 as the number of accident-free days crept into the 600s. As the company's safety calendar approached day 666, Hyatt said he approached a manager and explained that wearing it would force him "to accept the mark of the beast and to be condemned to hell." He said the manager assured him he wouldn't have to wear the number.
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Yes, they should fire the stupid person that came up with the idea of buying stickers for every employee for each day that was accident free. The very idea that wearing a numbered sticker stopped accidents is just "unfathomable stupidity".
Private companies have won court cases over bigger issues than this when it comes to what people can claim as discrimination. But if he can find a lawyer stupid enough to take the case on a contingency let him have at it.
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