Can you imagine opening the door and having this smiling face asking for you to vote for J F'n Kerry. I am sure she will garner him many votes.
Posted on 09/14/2004 4:16:04 PM PDT by GeorgiaFreeper
Lynne Gobbell of Moulton, Ala., who on Sept. 9 was fired from her job at Enviromate, a company that makes housing insulation, for driving to work with a Kerry-Edwards bumper sticker in the rear windshield of her Chevy Lumina.
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The story was picked up by Daily Kos, a political Web log, and spread quickly around the Web. By this morning, Geddes, who has declined to comment publicly on the matter, had apparently had enough of the bad publicity. Through an intermediary, he offered Gobbell an apology and said she could have her old job back. But Gobbell said she wouldn't return without some written guarantee that Geddes wouldn't turn around and fire her once he was out of the spotlight. Then, late this afternoon, Kerry himself phoned Gobbell. "He was telling me how proud he was that I stood up," Gobbell told me. "He'd read the part where Phil said I could either work for him or work for John Kerry. He said, 'you let him know you're working for me as of today.' I was just so shocked."
Gobbell accepted Kerry's job offer, "so I reckon I'll be working for John Kerry." Kerry left it that someone from his campaign would call Gobbell to work out the details. Let's hope there's quick follow-through (I'll be checking!), because Gobbell told me she couldn't wait to tell Geddes that she had a better offer.
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What will she be doing on November 3rd?
Exactly.....less than a 60 day employment.
At least those millions from the demorat coffers are doing some good. Love the low unemployment rate!
Wonder if the Alabama Woman can make peanut Butter Sandwiches?
probably making coffee for the team of lawyers who will try and steal the election.
Yeah but can she type ???
Gee, I thought Kerry distanced himself from Kos after Kos said "Screw 'em" when Americans were brutally murdered in Falluja. I guess he still logs in for the latest insanity from the America-hating left.
LOL! Considering all the ads Kerry is running about unemployed people in Ohio because of Republicans, they should all call him up and ask for their own jobs with him.
i wonder if she knows how to mix Kool-aid...?
"they should all call him up and ask for their own jobs with him."
good point
after all, the only way Democrats know how to increase employment is through government hiring, make work programs, etc.
they don't know how the real, actually-existing economy works . . . ;)
She will be out of a job about the first of Nov......
Bwahahaha
Kerry is gonna guarantee her a job once HE'S OUTTA THE LIMELIGHT......
She will be back crying in a few weeks....if she can get back in her spotlight..
What a dunce...she shoulda gone back to work for her old boss...knowing full well
that he probably is a man of his word...and the left wing media would be happy to give him more bad publicity if he fired her again...
All she had to do is swallow her pride...go back to work..show up on time and do her assigned work...
Kerry will dump her at first opportunity......
Betrayal is his stock in trade....it's how he made Forbes the big bucks.....
imo
Darn, ya beat me to it!!! LOL!
You have to admit, she's twice the woman Theresa is....
Exactly!! Don't come crawling back.
Voluntarily Disenfranchised
Unfortunately she will be unemployed again in November.
Unfortunately she will be unemployed again in November.
If Kerry wins, we'll all be working for him, through about May or June of each year.
I can't help but thinking that if any of you got fired for innocuously expressing your political beliefs, this board would be on fire with vitriol and you'd be headlining Rush and O'Reilly for the next couple of weeks.
It was stupid to fire her. He should have walked by her car and pressed an automatic center punch against her back window and blew it out. After a few rear windows, she would have gotten the hint. /sarcasm off
I suspect there's more to the story behind why she was fired other than just driving to work with a John Kerry bumper sticker. I'd like to hear the details.
I think her new job will only last until November 3, 2004. Too bad, another liberal fascish bites the dust. However, maybe she could help teresa acquire some couth.
A couple of months at best...then nothing...and what, no health care..no after school care and free lunches..WOW
By the looks of it, he approached her about her bumper sticker, upon which she was forced to respond. Hardly an employee rubbing her politics in her boss' face - more the other way around.
Whatever the case, a boss that treats his employees like this deserves to lose them all. It's poor management to browbeat your employees into submission.
Is this a great country or what!
How much do you want to bet that she has a job for 7 weeks---just until sKerry loses the election then she quietly gets dumped.
And she will not be popular in Alabama--good luck finding a job Nov 3. Out of work just in time for Christmas, that is what I see in this woman's future.
What the heck is that a pic of?????
While you're at it, check on what she's getting paid. I understand, from Kerry's campaign propaganda, that all new jobs in the U.S. start at minimum wage...
For the record, "I reckon" is southern for "I guess".
I use it all the time. As in "I reckon I'll be voting for W in November!
A riff on the "Poseidon Adventure".
I know. I was born in GA, grew up AL mostly, and am now back in GA (although I see how I could have sounded like a sarcastic yankee).
She could've been more diplomatic in her disagreement, but she was disagreeing to an original request was out of bounds to begin with.
If the bumper sticker had anything to do with job performance, I could see a rational argument being made - but she was simply making a statement that her boss disagreed with, and on pointing that out, she found out that it's a losing argument to argue with your boss on such matters.
Her getting fired might be inevitable in this situation, but it doesn't make it right.
Do you know what my job is? My job is to make my boss look good and to keep him out of trouble. Unless you are self-employed, that's what your job is, too. You may not acknowledge that - and in that case, you're probably doing a crappy job at your job.
How do you think this woman was doing at her job? How do you think her reference from this part of her career/resume will look to her future employers?
At what point does employer imperative to dictate the personal preferences of their employees end?
Again, if any of you showed up at work with a W stands for Whatever sticker in your personal automobile and got fired for it, you'd be screaming louder than she did.
This isn't a Democratic vs. Republican issue - it's more of a libertarian one, balancing the power and responsibilities of the employer vs. employee right and freedoms. In this case, by crossing over into the employee's private realm of free speech and assembly, the employer fucked up. Big time.
You reckon what you'll be doing after November?
methinks Terezzzzzza and her boy toy don't have a mansion in Alabama that you can be working at.
After the election she's been offloaded to Wendy's. That's the one place that Kerry will never have to run into her again.
Sorry, but the libertarian position is that the boss can fire her for any reason he wants. It is his company.
Amen
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