Home Depot Employee Gets Fired Over Having God Button
A Man working at a Home Depot store in Floria was recently fired after continuously wearing a button that stated, One Nation Under God.” He had been warned several times and had also been offered an alternative that he refused. He’s now getting ready to….. you guessed it -SUE. Click here for full story…
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15 Year Old Girl Gets Gang Raped Outside of Her High School During The Homecoming Dance
As many as 10 people participated and 10 people watched without calling 911 as a 15 year old girl was sexually assaulted in Richmnod, CA. From CNN:
“Based on witness statements and suspect statements, and also physical evidence, we know that she was raped by at least four suspects committing multiple sex acts,” Gagan said.
“As people announced over time that this was going on, more people came to see, and some actually participated,” Gagan said.
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Harriet says
I’m kinda torn about the man getting fired at Home Depot. From a management perspective, the mistake on their part was not immediately correcting the employee once they saw him wearing a pin that was not company issued. He wore it for over a year before anyone said anything! If it was the company’s policy not to wear non-issued pins, then he should have been corrected LONG before this incident.
From a Christian standpoint, it’s important that we be balanced in our actions as well as beliefs. If a company’s policy goes totally against your belief, then it’s quite possible you will lose your job! That’s just the bottom line. However, if he was being discriminated against, that’s another issue all together. I certainly hope he was operating with excellence in terms of his work ethic, which would give him a leg to stand on. But if he was stealing pens and taking extra long lunch breaks, then he’s definitely got a challenge on his hands.
SMH at the little girl who was violated like that. I don’t know when sexual assault became a spectator sport. I’m definitely praying for her and her family.
Anna says
Staples has “hit the easy button” slogan. Why can’t this guy wear a “One Nation Under God badge”? I guess freedom of speech is not so free if you lose your job over it. I want him to sue. I understand that he was told not to wear it on several occassions but it would be like someone at my job telling me I can’t wear my Obama badge. I know I can’t wear the Obama T-shirt, hubby wears his Obama T-Shirts to work all the time and he still has a job. Let him sue but not so much that they go out of business. I like Home Depot.
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The 15 yr old who got ganged raped for over two hrs. is sad and makes my stomach sink. How 20 ppl can look on and watch and we know how kids love to use their camera phones to expose crimes and no video is known. This young lady is still in the hospital. She was minding her own business and waiting for her dad to pick her up when someone she knew said come hang out with us. Yes she was drinking, but did they spike her drink or did she just drink too much and was taken advantage of? Who the hell participates in a gang rape? The state of California considers it a crime if a person under the age of 14 is raped and others watched or knew about it. This young woman is 15 and the bystanders can’t be prosecuted for not reporting a crime. I feel sorry for this young woman but also the young man who invited her to hang out but did nothing. Is this how far peer pressure has gotten that kids are too stupid to do the right thing for fear of retaliation? SMH in disgust. I am from the “sue me Country” and I hope the parents sue the school for not having working cameras and someone to moniter them. Our “corner stores” privately owned have to have cameras on the inside and the outside to help fight crime, if they did not purchase it before a set deadline they got shut down. This school has installed new equipment because of this crime. I think the school should be held accountable because they allowed a security staff member leave the event due to prior commitments. There should have been another security person to replace the one who left. Maybe the replacement would not have known or been able to stop what happened but that is not the point. The police are looking on social networking places to see if anyone posts or says anything about this crime. They will find the punks who did this because kids are stupid and like to brag and innocent thugs will rat out anyone to save their own butt. I wish this young lady well and hope that she does not think it’s her fault. I feel nothing but madness for the mothers who raised these animals.