Posted on 11/22/2024 7:05:22 AM PST by Red Badger
A North Dakota woman learned that unlike LGBT symbols, Christian messaging on a Target name tag could mean trouble. Target has apologized and reportedly offered to reinstate a North Dakota employee who claims she was fired for writing "trust in Jesus" in marker on her name tag.
Target vows on its corporate site to "make decisions regarding employment opportunities, including hiring, promotion and advancement, without regard" to religious beliefs and states it wants a company "where all feel seen, heard and welcome."
Denise Kendrick of Fargo was seen and then made unwelcome on Nov. 16 by the DEI-captive organization.
Kendrick told KVLY-TV that a manager approached her and informed her that she "can't wear that name tag."
'I've seen people with rainbows on theirs.'
This came as a surprise to Kendrick because she had worn Christian-themed T-shirts for months to work allegedly without incident in the super-majority Christian state.
Kendrick noted in a video on her YouTube channel, "For several months, I had been wearing my red T-shirts that I ordered myself, my Christian red T-shirts, OK. I didn't wear the he/she/they/whatever T-shirts that Target supplied. I wore my own and never had any problem the whole entire time that I worked there."'
Besides an apparent absence of backlash from customers, Kendrick indicated that the "trust in Jesus" note was her equivalent to other employees' name-tag displays of belief and ideological affiliation.
"I replied, 'Well, I've seen people with rainbows on theirs. I’m going to continue to wear this name tag,'" Kendrick told KVLY. "And then they said, 'Well, you can't work here any more.'"
'The darker it gets, the brighter our lights should shine.'
According to Kendrick, when she asked for a written explanation detailing why exactly she was fired, the manager refused and instead provided her with a list of contact information pertaining to the company's dress code policy.
"They gave me this paper with all these phone numbers on it and said, 'If you have any questions about the violation of the dress code, just call one of these numbers,'" Kendrick told KVLY. "And he just kept repeating it, and we just kept going back and forth, and it was going nowhere."
The incident may have been triggered by the intolerance of a customer. Prior to her termination, Kendrick claimed she saw a visible member of the LGBT community, whom she served as cashier earlier in the day, communicating with the "HR lady."
On Tuesday, a spokesman said in a statement obtained by KVLY, "Upon learning of the situation, we conducted a review and determined that the team member should not have been terminated. We apologized to her and offered to reinstate her immediately."
"We are taking the appropriate steps to address the actions taken by the individual leader involved in this situation and are working with the store to ensure our policies are appropriately followed moving forward," added the spokesman.
Kendrick noted in a video on her YouTube channel, "Following Christ, you know, means taking up our cross every day and standing on the truth, guys. Now more than ever, OK, the darker it gets, the brighter our lights should shine."
Reason number 14, why I love that I moved from Seattle to Kentucky:
In Seattle I mentioned my Christian beliefs at work at my peril. Even though my company had put in a Muslim prayer room.
In Kentucky after I had worked there for about a month, they had a pizza party to celebrate a completed project. As we gathered around the pizza, the manager prayed over the food.
I was blown away.
no retail company should allow their public-facing employees to be walking billboards for their personal believes ... period ...
i really DO NOT want to know personal shite about anybody except my friends and family ... period ...
Target has apologized?
Apologized, sounds like a million dollar lawsuit ,if you ask me. They have to stop this crap. Target is a sh!thole of a store .
I wish every Christian had the fortitude of this gal. The world would be a much better place.
Target specializes in less than high quality products in all ranges of categories. Their prices used to be low...but now there are many other retailers who offer similar quality levels at lower prices. Target is now expendable.
80 million + folks not shopping at Target will eliminate them.
Now that Trump has won, the gaslighting and propaganda for “woke” initiatives will continue to go on, hoping to brainwash a new crop of voters. Kill the propaganda by destroying their business. We won’t have it anymore.
We moved to Texas from SoCal. My wife needed surgery and before he started, the doctor asked my wife if he could pray before he started. She said he prayed for guidance during the surgery. We were blown away as well.
Absolutely. Agree completely.
They’re already on my boycott list ... with the bathroom stunt they pulled
So, I have not been there for years
Target lost me many years ago when they sold ‘Holiday” trees in December. They are lying Bastards who are two woke to believe or give a penny too.
I’ll bet there would not have been a problem if she put her preferred pronouns on it.
Target a non Christian zone why go there freedom not allowed.
If she had put a gay flag on her name tag, you can be sure Target wouldn’t have said a thing.
I have friends that won’t set foot in a Target to this day after the bathroom controversy a few years ago (letting men into women’s bathrooms).
Amazing how the manager could not connect the “Christ” in Christmas on their T-shirts with the “Jesus” on her name tag.
I have not been in a Target since they allowed men in the bathroom of women. I pray this woman has a winning class action suit in place soon against the Target stores.
The name tag belongs to the store, not the employees. Nothing should be written on it. I don’t want to see symbols or words that denote their personal lives or rainbow ribbons in their hair or political earrings or whatever flavor of the day protest button pinned to their vests or blue bead bracelets. Nothing.
However, it does show who you’re dealing with and if they have enough smarts to at least point you in the general direction of the shoe department. Not that I’d be asking since I dumped them back around 2000 and later put them on the ban list permanently over the restrooms.
Yes, Texas doctors do that a lot. To the Lord God and Jesus.
Agreed. Her name tag was not the appropriate place to clearly advertise her faith. Different than wearing a small crucifix around the neck. That would be seen as jewelry.
Otherwise, what’s to stop some Muslim employees from wearing name tags with “Allah, Akbar!!” written on the tags?
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