E-Mail Mocking Obama Is ‘Exhibit A’ in Wrongful-Firing Suit

[The Straight Story]

E-Mail Mocking Obama Is ‘Exhibit A’ in Wrongful-Firing Suit

The president of a Midwest office supply company is in court after a salesman claimed the boss’ pre-election e-mail rant against Barack Obama amounted to an edict: Vote for Obama and you’re fired.

The lawsuit (.pdf) claims the president of KK Office Solutions’ pre-election e-mail criticizing Obama to company employees was no joke and instead resulted in the firing of a pro-Obama salesman, Elliot Snell, who openly made it known he supported and voted for Obama.

“Mr. Snell was terminated for voting for his presidential candidate of choice. Voting for a president is acting in a manner that public policy would encourage as it is similar to civic duties/opportunities such as performing jury duty, seeking public office or joining a labor union,” Snell’s lawsuit said.

The lawsuit, filed in Kansas state court Oct. 6, highlights that there is no federal statute directly protecting private workers from being retaliated for their votes. “There’s not really a federal statute that would cover this. It’s just not there. It has to be a public policy argument that is covered by state law,” said Snell’s attorney, Lawrence Williamson of Kansas.


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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/obama-email-exhibit-a/

[dysfunctional press]

1. [e-mail] might want to consider a new email address...

his current one might fill up quickly.

[Ilsa]

2. He sent that out without considering wage and hour laws? Of course,

it was sarcasm.

I've had an ass of a boss like that. He went around our meeting room back in 1992 asking us who we were going to vote for in the primary. I wish I'd lied to him and told him I was going to vote for his candidate, just so he'd wonder why I had the same values as he did (I didn't). Everyone in the room froze up over his question. A few played stupid. I finally decided to tell the truth: I was going to vote for Paul Tsongas (RIP).

Let's hope some sort of law wmerges from this wherein bosses and religious leaders can't strongarm their employees or parish members to vote a certain way "or else."

[Zywiec]

3. Business owner chooses to lay off employees whose vehicles sported Obama bumper stickers.

Fellow Business Executives:

As the CFO of this business that employees 140 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barrack Obama will be our next President, and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way.

To compensate for these increases, I figure that the Clients will have to see an increase in our fees to them of about 8% but since we cannot increase our fees right now due to the dismal state of our economy, we will have to lay off six of our employees instead.

This has really been eating at me for a while, as we believe we are family here and I didn't know how to choose who will have to go.

So, this is what I did. I strolled thru our parking lot and found 8 Obama bumper stickers on our employees' cars and have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off. I can't think of a more fair way to approach this problem. These folks wanted change; I gave it to them.

If you have a better idea, let me know.

Sincerely,


http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/layoff.asp

[Liberal In Texas]

4. What an asshole.

Did he cut and paste that from some email spam that was going around? Sure sounds a lot like it.

Bet he's a freeper too.

[TeaBagsAreForCups]

5. The name of the company....

.... KK Office Solutions is just toooooo perfect.

Anyone want to venture what the KK - really - stood for in the mind of the asswipe when he was was naming his company?

And Kansas City, Kansas, the location, doesn't count!