Old Glory in office not OK?
Publicity brings big backdown:
"Is it okay to show your patriotism at the office? For one Arlington woman, the answer was "no" after she hung an American flag in her office just before the Memorial Day weekend. Debbie McLucas is one of four hospital supervisors at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield. Last week, she hung a three-by-five foot American flag in the office she shares with the other supervisors.
When McLucas came to work Friday, her boss told her another supervisor had found her flag offensive. "I was just totally speechless. I was like, 'You're kidding me,'" McLucas said. McLucas' husband and sons are former military men. Her daughter is currently serving in Iraq as a combat medic.
McLucas said the supervisor who complained has been in the United States for 14 years and is formerly from Africa. McLucas said that supervisor took down the flag herself.
"The flag and the pole had been placed on the floor," McLucas said. But McLucas also said hospital higher-ups had told her some patients' families and visitors had also complained. "I was told it wouldn't matter if it was only one person," she said. "It would have to come down." ...
Several dozen people protested outside the Mansfield hospital Wednesday. And a receptionist at Kindred's headquarters told us they received many phone calls. Then, late Wednesday morning, Kindred posted on its website a statement about the incident. It reads, in part: "The disagreement was over the size of the flag and not what it symbolized. We have invited the employee to put the flag back up."
We talked to McLucas Wednesday afternoon. She says the hospital's local CEO called and apologized. And McLucas says the woman did tell her she could put the flag back up, which she has done. But she says when she was first told the flag had to go, nobody mentioned anything about its size being the root of the problem.
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Looks like the company felt initially that it had to support the black b*tch who took the flag down. Hard to understand all this happening in Texas otherwise.
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Are you from another country and the U.S. flag offends you? Nothing says you have to stay here. Go live in a country that doesn't fly our flag.
It's sad that it took public outcry to change the hospital administration's stand on removing the flag. Those objecting should have been politely told that this is the U.S., and we fly our flag where we wish.
"the supervisor who complained has been in the United States for 14 years and is formerly from Africa." ... "Looks like the company felt initially that it had to support the black b*tch who took the flag down"
Maybe it was a white bitch from South Africa?
The flag was 3 foot by 5 foot and came with a damned pole!
The article doesn't say how big the SHARED office is, but that's a pretty damned big flag to be putting up, especially since she could have gotten a much smaller one that would have fit on her desk with no problems.
It sounds more like she was being inconsiderate to the people she shares an office with.
The article doesn't say what the co-worker found so offensive about the flag. Perhaps she'd put it in the complainers part of the office.
As usual, there isn't enough information available.
Anonymous 2:12 AM - People do not describe their reaction to an over-sized flag in the shared office as being "offensive" if they believe the flag is too big. They tell their supervisor it's "inconvenient," or "an eyesore."
Size was not the issue for the other supervisor, or that information would have been relayed as the reason why the flag was taken down.
A "pole" would not have been considered "offensive" either, but a "safety hazard" or just "in the way."
You live in a dreamworld if you think the reason given is anything other than the reason it was removed.
Well said Stan. I wonder if anyone checked to see if the African is in the country legally. Then again, that's no longer required, is it. Especially in Mexas. I also wonder what the reaction would have been if the African had complained to the ANC that their flag was offensive. They would have had her with some Fava beans and a nice bottle of Chianti.
Perhaps the complainees English "Ain't too great" and didn't know the correct word for the complaint.
The fact is, we do NOT know the language used in the complaint.
What we have is the language told to the reporter BY the person involved. Hardly an unbiased source. If the boss comes forward with the ACTUAL language used in the complaint, then we can judge accordingly.
Consider this. If you put up a flag, and one of your co-workers told you to take it down, and you told them to shove off back to Africa or stop being such a stuck up bitch, would you then claim to the press that the person found the flag "offensive" or that you were the offensive one?
This country's flag is never ever offensive. If anyone finds it offensive or an inconvenience, they can pack their trash and get the frak out and take their kids with them.
Ed
Size was not the issue for the other supervisor, or that information would have been relayed as the reason why the flag was taken down.According to the hospital, it was the size of the flag that bothered the other employee.
http://tinyurl.com/l7m2vy
"This issue was simply a dispute between two employees who shared a small workspace, one of whom removed the flag because of its size."
It may be an issue where the size of the flag was "offensive." It may be an issue where the woman only heard what she wanted to hear or what she thought was being said.
The bottom line is that it has been resolved and the flag is back where it was.
Unless the flag was invading the woman's cubicle, she had no valid reason to be offended.
Unless the flag was invading the woman's cubicle, she had no valid reason to be offended.It was a common office that was shared amongst four employees.
Not shocking in this area of Texas, the closer you get to Dallas, the nuttier the people get, listen to the Dallas city council meetings and you would understand.
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