Daniel Cody - “Left on the Lake”

Imagine if your boss inserted a flyer into your paycheck envelope that read:

“Just so you will know, because of the Bush tax (cut):
I was able to buy the new Hammer Mill
I was able to finance our receivables
I was able to get the new CAT skid steer
I was able to get the wire cutter
I was able to give you a job”

“You got the benefit of the Bush tax cut. Everyone did.”

Obviously crossing a few lines, no? Yeah, sure he’s the boss and all, but why need to shove his political viewpoints down everyone’s throat via their paychecks?

Now, imagine if that same boss fired you for simply having a Kerry / Edwards bumper sticker on your car. It sounds impossibly insane, but it happened recently in Alabama:

“We were going back to work from break, and my manager told me that Phil said to remove the sticker off my car or I was fired,” she said. “I told him that Phil couldn’t tell me who to vote for. He said, ‘Go tell him.’ ”

She went to Gaddis’ office, knocked on the door and entered on his orders.

“Phil and another man who works there were there,” she said. “I asked him if he said to remove the sticker and he said, ‘Yes, I did.’ I told him he couldn’t tell me who to vote for. When I told him that, he told me, ‘I own this place.’ I told him he still couldn’t tell me who to vote for.”

Gobbell said Gaddis told her to “get out of here.”

“I asked him if I was fired and he told me he was thinking about it,” she said. “I said, ‘Well, am I fired?’ He hollered and said, ‘Get out of here and shut the door.’ ”

She said her manager was standing in another room and she asked him if that meant for her to go back to work or go home. The manager told her to go back to work, but he came back a few minutes later and said, ” ‘I reckon you’re fired. You could either work for him or John Kerry,’ ” Gobbell said. - Decatur Daily

Now I can understand the point of not wearing controverisal atrire to work, or trying to preach the party line during working hours, but this is getting a bit out of hand when simply showing support outside the workplace for a candidate is enough to get you fired.

This is really a small step away from a boss sending a car to everyone’s houses to see if they have any yard or window signs on display, and firing those who don’t have a yardsign of the candidate you support.

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