Travelers Justified in Firing Christian Exec

[The Straight Story]

Travelers Justified in Firing Christian Exec

(CN) - An insurance manager who was fired after hitting up her staff to fund her Christian missionary work does not have a discrimination case, the 8th Circuit affirmed.
The Travlers Cos. fired managing director Karen Chambers in January 2008 after her supervisors learned that she had taken family members on business trips. Without seeking permission, Chambers had sent expense reports that included meals eaten by her daughter and grandson.

Those infractions followed a written behavioral warning Chambers received in October 2007 after the underwriters she supervised complained about her controlling management style.
In an Oct. 10 meeting about Chambers' performance, two vice presidents and a human resources manager discussed answers to a "climate survey" given to six underwriters.

Chambers denied the negative characterizations, which included reports "that Chambers spoke frequently about religion ... and sold items in the office to raise funds for missionary work, which [employees] felt obligated to purchase to avoid getting on her 'bad side.'"

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The three-judge panel also rejected Chambers' claim that Travelers owed her a $30,000 bonus for her 2007 work.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/02/14/43881.htm

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. "a $30,000 bonus for her 2007 work"

If she hadn't been so obnoxious and disruptive she would have gotten her bonus and could have funded her own missionary work without pushing on other people; I don't care if it was Girl Sprout cookies.

[tanyev]

2. Aw, the poor lady was just asking herself "What Would Sarah Do?",

and people act like it's some sort of crime. Geez.

[geckosfeet]

3. These over the top christian missionary fucks are really getting to me with their over-reaching.

Especially with their desire to deny health care to employees. Yes. Birth control, "contraception", is health care.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/10847-catholic-bishops-reject-obamas-contraception-compromise

America’s Roman Catholic bishops have joined other Christian and conservative voices in rejecting President Obama’s "compromise" on his earlier announced mandate requiring all employers — including most religious institutions — to include free contraception to women in their health insurance coverage.

In their statement rejecting of the President’s "compromise," the Catholic bishops recalled their original objection to the department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regulations "forcing private health plans — nationwide, by the stroke of a bureaucrat’s pen — to cover sterilization and contraception, including drugs that may cause abortion." The bishops noted that all the other mandated “preventive services” under the HHS regulations address the prevention of disease, "and pregnancy is not a disease," they emphasized. "Moreover, forcing plans to cover abortifacients violates existing federal conscience laws."

In addition, the Catholic leaders noted, Obama’s mandate would saddle many individuals and institutions with the burden of facilitating services that the Church considers immoral, among them “insurers forced to write policies including this coverage; employers and schools forced to sponsor and subsidize the coverage; and individual employees and students forced to pay premiums for the coverage.”

He added that despite how the Obama administration tries to spin the "accommodation," under the mandate Christian institutions would still end up assisting with something they consider sinful. "No amount of rationalization … can disguise the fact that indirect payment for these services would fall into the areas of either what the Church calls formal cooperation in evil or direct material cooperation in evil," he said.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/10847-catholic-bishops-reject-obamas-contraception-compromise

It's ok to kill them or let them die once they are born, especially when they are not catholics, but it is sinful to prevent a pregnancy.

If these institutions are getting federal dollars to carry out government sanctioned missions, I don't see how they have much leverage. Cut the bastards off. I am sick of my tax dollars going to fund these hypocritical bastards. I find it morally objectionable, sinful and enabling of an evil religious cult.

Fuck you, you hypocritical catholic fucks.

Yeah. Go ahead and alert my post.

on edit 1 - modified subject line
on edit 2 - caught a couple typos

[malaise]

5. Fugg em!

All of them

[sarcasmo]

10. +1

[Dreamer Tatum]

4. How do you get DUers on the side of a massive insurance company?

Add one Christian. Done.

[The Straight Story]

6. Insurance companies are not always wrong :)

I've worked for big companies before (Enron/Chase/Verizon/McGraw-Hill) and while they can be wrong in many things at times they are right on some things.

But I do get what you are saying Tis a shame.

[11 Bravo]

7. Incisive and pretty fucking accurate there, Dream Street.

[msongs]

8. it ain't the christian, it's using a position of power to extort employees in religion's name nt

[Fumesucker]

9. How did we come to know the woman was a Christian?

She was pushing people to donate money to her Christian missionary fund..