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May 19, 2005
For all you do, if you don't drink Bud you're through...
This is just wrong, via the Greeley Tribune and Yahoo News:
A Denver man, Ross Hopkins, has been fired from his job as a warehouse supervisor at American Eagle Distributing Co., a Bud distributor in the Denver area, for allegedly drinking Coors while off duty.
"They flat-out told me: 'We're putting food on your table so you could put it on theirs?"' he said Tuesday. "I thought I could drink it, no problem."In a court filing, American Eagle said Hopkins' termination "was necessary to avoid a conflict of interest with his responsibilities to American Eagle and/or the appearance of such a conflict of interest."
They 'canned' him despite a Colorado law that forbids firing employees for legal activity away from the workplace. He wasn't wearing a uniform and according to him, he had actually ordered a Bud and a waitress mistakenly brought him a Coors.
The son-in-law of the distributor's majority shareholder also was at the bar and offered twice to buy him a Budweiser but Hopkins turned it down both times.He was fired the following Monday.
Maybe I should institute a policy to fire Desert Island Foods™ employees for saying "Bam!" Sheesh.
The email address on American Eagle's website is here, if you're feeling chatty.
Posted by The Pragmatic Chef at May 19, 2005 7:51 AM
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Oh, brother.