We read:
"A Florida hotel fired its front desk supervisor after the man wore an American flag lapel pin, a violation of the hotel’s personal appearance policies that prohibit employees from wearing badges and pins.
Sean May told Jacksonville’s WJXT that his manager at St. Augustine’s Casa Monica Hotel told him Thursday to remove the pin or leave. He refused to take it off and was sent home. The following day, the hotel informed him he was fired.
May, 26, said he wore the pin everyday for two years and never had a problem with it until his manager approached him.
According to the station, a recent upper level management change has led to a reinforcement of certain policies that may have been allowed to lapse.
May said he never received complaints about the pins from hotel guests, many of whom he said seemed to like it. “I‘ve actually gotten more comments about it than any of the service I’ve actually done at the hotel,” he said.
The station said it received a massive community response to May’s story, which first aired Thursday. One Florida resident, Air Force veteran Bruce Whalen, said the lapel pin should be a dress code requirement for all residents and is calling for a boycott of the hotel.
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I doubt that we have heard the last of this.
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Boycott. Now there's a word (and idea) more Americans should use. They would be amazed at how much power they actually have when they stick together. In fact, you can see proof of that when you look at how hard the govt, MSM, and advertising industry, work to keep people divided.
Most people have allowed themselves to be convinced they don't have much say. But someday, when (if) they stop being the weak, mindless, gullible sheep that they are, they will band together and see how much they can achieve. Maybe.
It may be a union organizing issue. Under arcane rules of the NLRB, an employer may not prohibit the wearing of union buttons and insignia on employee uniforms if it permits the wearing of other buttons or insignia, no matter how altruistic or patriotic. Thus if they permit the flag, under this rule, to prohibit the wearing of union paraphernalia would be an unfair labor practice.
Of the people
By the people
For the people
The meek shall inherit the earth
Go Occupy Wall St.
"The meek shall inherit the earth"
Yeah, but only the part they get buried in.
I think the meaning of the phrase was that the aggressive types will kill themselves off to leave the world to the "meeker" types. But I guess that would take a long time if ever.
... and then there's the passive-aggressive types!
Doesn't the hotel have a PR firm to slap this manager upside his head?
I hope he sues the hotel for violating his free speech rights and Freedom of Expressions and have the manager appoligise then resign in disgrace
Technically, the management is probably within their rights, but what a needless public relations disaster. Sometimes proving you are right can be costly.
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