http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/workplace/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:05:03 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418331/posts An Idaho pharmacist who wrestled down an armed robber was fired. A pharmacist who fought off an armed robber in Coeur D’ Alene, Idaho was awarded a special award from the city. But his award from his employer was termination because he fought and captured the robber. He chased an armed gunman who stole prescription medications, and was able to tackle him outside the store. He confronted the man who informed him he had a gun and started reaching for his pocket. But, the former college wrestler tackled him. As often happens, the robber accidentally dropped his gun.... secondamendmentfreedom.blogspot.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418331/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:05:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416468/posts ANDERSON – A Pizza Hut delivery person shot a man who allegedly tried to rob the store Wednesday, according to police. A police report said Spencer Simmons, 44, attempted to rob the Pizza Hut on Broadway Street at about 11 p.m. Wednesday. The report said Simmons pointed a .25 Raven Arms semi-automatic handgun at the store’s cashier and demanded money. The cashier loaded about $720 into a small bag. Simmons wasn’t aware that a delivery man, Michael Shaker, had heard the commotion and snuck to the back as well, the report said. “Seconds later, Simmons left the register area, and... Herald Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416468/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:04:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414576/posts ***NEWS FLASH *** North Pole (AP) - 12/24/09 - In a surprise move today, the Justice Department handed down indictments against Santa Claus (AKA Kris Kringle, Per Noel, Saint Nick) for allegedly employing undocumented guest workers at his North Pole toy factory.  Originally alerted by an anonymous tipster known only as “The Grinch”, the Justice Department alleges that Claus operates a large toy manufacturing “sweat shop”, solely utilizing an illegal labor force. According to the government’s press release, this is “the largest such operation ever detected”. Off the record, one official said, "This operation is completely unprecedented in size,... The Santa Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414576/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:13:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414489/posts Extremely high, potentially unhealthy levels of lead dust have been found in the Allegheny County Health Department's dilapidated office building in Lawrenceville that houses the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program. The highest test reading of 337,000 micrograms per square foot was taken in August... Results of tests done Dec. 2 and 3 in Building One found lead dust levels of 32,800 micrograms per square foot on a windowsill in Room 305 and 10,900 micrograms per square foot on a windowsill in Room 309 -- both food safety division offices. The tests found 8,400 micrograms per square foot on a windowsill... Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414489/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:31:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411455/posts Christian Teacher Lost Her Job After Being Told Praying For Sick Girl 'Was Bullying' By JONATHAN PETRE 20th December 2009 Distraught: Olive Jones said her dismissal 'was like a bad dream that had come true' [Pic in URL] A devout Christian teacher has lost her job after discussing her faith with a mother and her sick child and offering to pray for them. Olive Jones, a 54-year-old mother of two, who taught maths to children too ill to attend school, was dismissed following a complaint from the girl’s mother. She was visiting the home of the child when she spoke... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411455/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:58:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411437/posts A northern Idaho pharmacist who tackled a gun-toting robber and received a special award from the city of Coeur d'Alene has been fired for violating company policy. Jerry Gunderson says he was dismissed from the Shopko pharmacy ... A Shopko spokeswoman at the company's corporate office in Green Bay, Wis., declined to comment. Police arrested the man and Gunderson later received a Citizen Appreciation Award from city leaders. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411437/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:23:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408646/posts A localized media frenzy has ensued after a Catholic reporter was let go from his 19-year position at a Maine newspaper for voicing his opinion against same-sex “marriage” and the campaign to legalize it in Maine. According to an article by the Maine Public Broadcasting Network, Larry Grard, a former employee of the Morning Sentinel, was sent a mass email from the pro-gay rights organization, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), following the repeal of the same-sex “marriage” law in Maine during the mid-term elections on Nov. 4. In the email, Trevor Thomas, spokesman for the HRC, voiced his disappointment with the... CNA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408646/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:41:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403410/posts Zikerria Bellamy, 17, said two managers at an Orlando restaurant wouldn't give her an interview on two separate occasions in July. ... A spokeswoman for the local restaurant, Allison Garrett, said in a statement the employee who left the voice mail "acted outside the scope of his authority and was not responsible for hiring." He no longer works at the restaurant. ... Bellamy is a male who has been living as a female for about the past six years. She said she completed a job application online, then was called to the store for an interview. When one manager refused... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403410/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 02:48:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403102/posts Is it wrong for an American to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas? Sounds like a crazy question, but it’s actually at the center of a lawsuit that’s on its way to court. Promila Awasthi is a US citizen, originally from India. She lives in Silicon Valley, and worked for software giant Infosys at its Fremont, Calif. office in 2008. When she was there, she claims, she was routinely teased by two of her supervisors for celebrating American holidays. “Why, as an Indian, should you be celebrating Thanksgiving?” she says she was asked. “You should not be doing that,” she was told. Pajamas Media/Edgelings http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403102/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:02:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402394/posts Grard was fired by Bill Thompson, editor of the Sentinel and its sister paper the Kennebec Journal in Augusta, shortly after the Nov. 3 election in which Maine voters repealed a same-sex marriage law approved by the Legislature. Grard said he arrived at work the morning after the vote to find an e-mailed press release from the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, D.C., that blamed the outcome of the balloting on hatred of gays. Grard, who said he’d gotten no sleep the night before, used his own e-mail to send a response. “They said the Yes-on-1 people were haters. I’m... Downeast.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402394/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 23:03:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2401055/posts CLEARWATER — If a dog were to accompany a restaurant chef to work, most people would have no problem with a state inspector kicking the dog to the curb. But when the food vendor happens to be a gas station, and its offerings stop at cans of Coke and bags of Doritos, and the dog is a charismatic chocolate Labrador named Cody, the response evolves into a public outcry — against the state. "Thumbs down on the Department of Agriculture. Tackle some real problems. Human customers bring more contamination — not to mention danger — than a well-cared-for pooch," said... St Petersburg Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2401055/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 18:07:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2400622/posts CLEARWATER, Fla. -- A state health inspector says a dog familiar to many regular customers at a Gulf coast gas station will no longer be able to join his owner at work. The Clearwater BP station's owner, Karim Mansour, received a warning from the Florida Department of Health on Thursday, informing him that Cody would have to go or all of the store's food - mostly bottled soda, candy and other snacks - would be declared unfit for consumption. miamiherald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2400622/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 00:02:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2400196/posts Here is video showing a 72 year-old Walmart Greeter being savagely punched in the face by a passerby at a Pennsylvania Walmart. The video also discusses the attack, which was carried out by a man who had been refused "check-cashing" assistance inside the store. As he walked outside the store, the man then punched the elderly greeter, breaking bones in the man's face. . . . (VIDEO) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2400196/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:19:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400130/posts <p>As important as the outcome of this case is the precedent it could set for extending special treatment to Muslim employees to the exclusion of others -- essentially creating a second class of employees: workplace dhimmis. "Hertz sued over Muslim prayers," from (News Service That May Not Be Named)...Hertz Global Holdings Inc., the second-largest U.S. rental car company, was sued by former employees who say its policy of allowing Muslims to take daily prayer breaks discriminates against non-Muslim workers. Katie Barkley and Shirley Harris, who worked as part-time drivers moving Hertz cars from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to other locations, claim Muslim employees were given as many as three paid, 15-minute prayer breaks each shift while non-Muslim employees were denied equal time off, according to the suit filed Nov. 30 in federal court in Atlanta.</p> Jihad Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400130/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:56:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389299/posts New Haven, Conn. (AP) -- A group of black Connecticut firefighters hopes to block promotions for white firefighters who won a discrimination case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The black New Haven firefighters argue in papers filed Monday that they still have a right to challenge the validity of the promotional exam. AP via SFGate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389299/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:59:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387427/posts SALT LAKE CITY -- A gay rights group says it is securing Republican support in the Utah state Legislature for anti-discrimination laws. The Deseret News reports members of the Utah Log Cabin Republicans, a gay and lesbian political group, say two bills granting gays extra rights in Utah will have GOP sponsors when they go before the Legislature in the 2010 session. The group is not saying who those sponsors are. One of the measures is similar to an ordinance approved in Salt Lake City that states gay workers can't be fired because of their sexuality. The Deseret News reports... KSL.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387427/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:21:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387146/posts CHICAGO -- They're antsy and edgy, tired of waiting for promotion opportunities at work as their elders put off retirement. A good number of them are just waiting for the economy to pick up so they can hop to the next job, find something more fulfilling and get what they think they deserve. Oh, and they want work-life balance, too. Sounds like Gen Y, the so-called "entitlement generation," right? Not necessarily, say people who track the generations. In these hard times, they're also hearing strong rumblings of discontent from Generation X. They're the 32- to 44-year-olds who are wedged between... WSMV Nashville, TN. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387146/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:55:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381458/posts Details here. So this is what it has come to -- this is the fruit of the long-term efforts by groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations and others, to stigmatize and demonize everyone who speaks honestly about the threat of jihad and Islamic supremacism. People are afraid to speak up about what they see, when they know it is wrong. And all it cost this week was 13 dead and 38 wounded. jihadwatch.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381458/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 13:47:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381136/posts WPTV: Last month, when Trevor Keezer started bringing his Bible to work, Keezer says his manager confronted him about the ["One nation under God, indivisible."] button. "That's when I was told it had to come off, or I would be sent home. So they sent me home for six straight days without pay. And then today they terminated me." Fox Nation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381136/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 23:29:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381049/posts A manager at a Massachusetts retail store claims he was unjustly fired after he told a colleague he thought her impending marriage to another woman was wrong. Foxnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381049/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:31:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376431/posts A Massachusetts man was fired from a national retail corporation because of his traditional beliefs on same-sex marriage. Peter Vadala was formally dismissed from his job as second deputy manager of the Brookstone store at Boston’s Logan Airport on August 12, 2009, after a supervisor reported him to Human Resources regarding an incident two days earlier. massresistance.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376431/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:17:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375993/posts A short workweek and the prospect of early retirement. Job-protection laws that make it almost impossible to get fired. Seven weeks of holidays and vacation time a year. Oh, and paid lunches. A harried American worker might ask: What's not to like? And a dissatisfied French worker might respond: Plenty. A wave of suicides at the country's largest telecommunications firm has unnerved France, long viewed by many outside the country as a cushy haven for employees. Experts say the incidents are the most visible examples of the growing phenomenon of stress-induced illness in the country. Marie Peze opened the first... latimes.com/news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375993/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:42:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2375601/posts I have been job-hunting for some time now and applying for jobs online. I applied for one job in particular which is an office job and received the following email in response to my application and resume: "I have reviewed your resume and I am very interested in hiring you. Before I can setup an appointment, I would need your recent credit score. Your credit score is required because the position you applied for includes handling company cash and using a company credit card. Don't worry, if your score is low for a legitimate reason, you will have an opportunity... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2375601/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:34:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374927/posts Union anger over the Federal Aviation Administration's decision to revoke the licenses of two Northwest Airlines pilots threatens to disrupt voluntary safety-reporting programs used by many carriers, according to industry officials. FAA regulators Tuesday revoked the licenses of both pilots aboard Northwest Flight 188, which failed to respond to air-traffic controllers for about 90 minutes. The union isn't defending actions of the pilots, who asked to be protected under voluntary reporting rules. But officials of the Air Line Pilots Association claim regulators jumped the gun and disregarded voluntary procedures worked out over many years among regulators, airlines and unions. The... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374927/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:24:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373111/posts A Florida man says he was fired from his job at The Home Depot for wearing an American flag pin that said "One nation under God, indivisible." Trevor Keezer, 20, said he had worn the button ever since he started working at the home improvement retailer 19 months ago. He said it was his way of supporting U.S. troops, the Florida Sun-Sentinel reported. Keezer, whose brother Army Spc. Steven Keezer Jr. is set to return to Iraq in December, said none of his supervisors had anything negative to say about the pin until last month when he began bringing his... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373111/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:56:45 GMT