Budweiser Employee Fired for Drinking Coors

[cKGunslinger]

As asshat-ish it was of the company to fire him for this act, I say it's well within the employer's rights to do so.

If you owned a business and had a good employee would did everything you told him and was a perfect, stand-up guy while on the job, but noticed that off-hours he was constantly hitting on or flirting with your daughter or your wife (a perfectly "legal" activity,) should he have the right to sue you if you fire him?

What about if you fire an employee from your squeaky-clean, family-oriented, child day-care business because you find out she works as a pr0n star in her spare time? Again, a perfectly legal activity, but one that could be detrimental to your business's image, and ultimately, its profit.

 

[AaronB]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: piasabird
I guess if you drink Beer you deserve to be fired anyway. I dont Drink
Alcoholic beverages so I guess I have a bias. To me it is stupid to get drunk.

I say enjoy life safe sane and sober.

AT least that way, you can remember it.

Wow, it's been awhile since I've seen a horse that tall. How's the weather up there?

:thumbsup: :laugh:

And besides, few people drink beer to get drunk, it's horribly inefficient - that's what liquor is for.

I just picked up some Guiness. I am definately not drinking it to get drunk.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
I hope he wins millions. Ignorant fvcks like the one who fired this guy deserve to pay dearly for being stupid.

Millions based on what damages? He probably made no more than $40k/yr. That means 25 years of lost wages to make up for just one of those "millions" you'd want him to win. That would be pretty ricockulous don't you think?

Obviously this case has some unusual angles here, and likely a lot more took place than what we are being told, but in any event I still think both beers taste like watered-down piss.

 

[JACKHAMMER]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: mordantmonkey

Originally posted by: Amused
Laws are not based on needs. They are based on equality of rights.

ADA?
equal rights for equal circumstances.
an employer is not the same thing as an employee. there are plenty of laws about employers having to provide saftey measures for their employees. while the employees aren't required to provide it for themselves.

You're barking up the wrong tree. I oppose the ADA and OSHA.

Sorry.

Since when is is making the work place safe and accessible wrong? I have to stop reading these boards - it is people like you, who have no compassion and foresight - that make it painful.

 

[Miramonti]

Maybe we should all be fired for working at american companies while buying chinese products.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: JACKHAMMER

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: mordantmonkey

Originally posted by: Amused
Laws are not based on needs. They are based on equality of rights.

ADA?
equal rights for equal circumstances.
an employer is not the same thing as an employee. there are plenty of laws about employers having to provide saftey measures for their employees. while the employees aren't required to provide it for themselves.

You're barking up the wrong tree. I oppose the ADA and OSHA.

Sorry.

Since when is is making the work place safe and accessible wrong? I have to stop reading these boards - it is people like you, who have no compassion and foresight - that make it painful.

Do not mistake overbearing nannyism for compassion, or vice versa.

Civil law, and informed, assumed risk should govern workplace safety. Not a ridiculously overbearing nanny-state department.

The government is NOT the answer to all of life's problems.

 

[sniperruff]

bud sucks anyway.

 

[JACKHAMMER]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: JACKHAMMER

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: mordantmonkey

Originally posted by: Amused
Laws are not based on needs. They are based on equality of rights.

ADA?
equal rights for equal circumstances.
an employer is not the same thing as an employee. there are plenty of laws about employers having to provide saftey measures for their employees. while the employees aren't required to provide it for themselves.

You're barking up the wrong tree. I oppose the ADA and OSHA.

Sorry.

Since when is is making the work place safe and accessible wrong? I have to stop reading these boards - it is people like you, who have no compassion and foresight - that make it painful.

Do not mistake overbearing nannyism for compassion, or vice versa.

Civil law, and informed, assumed risk should govern workplace safety. Not a ridiculously overbearing nanny-state department.

The government is NOT the answer to all of life's problems.

I agree, but at some point the government has to step in and govern. We seems to disagree on what that line is. Keeping incompetent workers around b/c of BS laws is one thing (and wrong) but firing a guy for drinking the worng beer is something completely different. Yes, that line is fine - but it was clearly crossed in this case.

 

[AU Tiger]

I'm not surprised he was fired. Coke and Pepsi are the same way when it comes to drinking the competition.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: sniperruff
bud sucks anyway.

I say I drink all of them...like women, one is offering herself in front of you, most of the time you may as well.

However, if I were a company and my employee chose a competitor's product with options for my own, I'd fire his paycheck-only mentality.

If that were LAW in the US we'd have better products I bet.

I would not take a job for a product/item I didn't like.

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: sniperruff
bud sucks anyway.

Agreed. Anyone caught drinking a bud should be fired, regardless of who you work for!

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: KLin
I hope he wins his lawsuit.

He will

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: PHiuR
the man diddnt want to waste any beer...
i would rather drink it than waste a good beer.

I fail to see how that applies in this case. Neither Coors nor Bud are "good beer".