You are kidding, right?
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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You are kidding, right?
tooo funny...
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
He needs to show more team spirit.
He probably doesn’t know the company song either.
He could have worn it upside down and said he is a Herman Cain supporter
Amazed that employers ever hire anybody with all the PC, superstition and idiocy they have to put up with.
LOL
You forgot Bachmann’s “999 upside down” remark.
ROTFLOL You are totally doomed, dewd!
He should have asked them for a new one the next day.
He won't own squat. That's the downside of living in a right-to-work state. They don't even have to give a reason but not wearing a sticker is reason enough.
This guy is clearly half retarded. I’m sure they’ve been looking for a reason to fire him for a long time.
Several aspects of this story don’t make sense to me.
1.) they print out stickers every day to mark how many days without an accident they had? Maybe thy make stickers as part of their daily manufacturing process and the safety stickers are a convenient way to test the calibration of the machines, but this just seems wasteful. A dry erase board on the production floor would be far more efficient.
2.) This guy couldn’t just call out sick or take vacation that day?
3.) The guy actually had such strong superstitions that he believed biblical prophecy was written specifically to predict the eternal damnation of a plastics factory workforce in northern Georgia many hundreds of years in the future.
4.) The plastics company is now known by a new name, and there was a two year gap between the firing and the lawsuit. Maybe it takes that long to get through all the red tape to sue for wrongful termination (hopefully I’ll never find out), but maybe... just maybe, this is an effort to squeeze the new management for some quick cash.
I’d bet that it’s much more likely the guy had more problems at work than his wearing or not wearing a sticker. If he were to truly believe the sticker equated to damnation and voiced his concerns to management repeatedly, he was probably becoming a safety concern who could reasonably be expected to sabotage equipment and endanger peoples’ lives.
Employers should leave it at placing signs in the workplace.
Insisting workers wear stickers is just juvenile.
In this case, LOL isn’t just a figure of internet speech: I really am laughing out loud.
So is a Christian with those sort of suuperstitions.
Now compare that to the "Allah" written in Arabic and add the Crossed Swords of the Muslim Brotherhood...
Sorry to nitpick an otherwise great list, but that one should be 6.66 e2.
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