The company is probably better off without this kind of stupid worker.

hillbillypharmacist: Fault lies with the company on this one.

I'm a big ole atheist with nothing but scorn for the ridiculousness most people like to call their religion. But there's no way in living hell that I would even consider asking employees to wear a sticker that said '666' on it. It's borrowing trouble. Someone's going to balk. They might be stupid, but the choice is simply this: make employees wear stickers and lose one of them, or save your money and keep your employees.

Five bucks says they just offered the stickers and he rose a stink, was later fired for other reasons. I've never heard of a place requiring workers to wear stickers for that.

Couldn't he have just turned it upside down and pretended it was 3 nines?

Being afraid of a number is silly but unless this factory prints out a sticker for every single day, will have their employees wear a sticker that says "0 days since last accident" if an accident does occur, and can show how the employees in a factory wearing these stickers is beneficial in any way... yeah, gotta agree with the worker here.

When you believe in things you don't understand, then you suffer.

FTA: Billy E. Hyatt says in a federal lawsuit this month that he was fired in March 2009 from the plant after he refused to wear the sticker proclaiming that his factory had been accident-free for 666 days.

So, wait a minute ... they change the sticker every farking day? What a goddamned waste. Make a sign or something, you morons.

I would have worn my 666 sticker with pride.

UberDave: Well, at least he now has some time to think and get the memories from his mind.

Well played.

/UP THE IRONS!!

Um... just a thought. Why did they spend the money to print up stickers for "safety" with such a ridiculous benchmark number? 666? Really? 500, 750, 1000.. sure. But why 666? Maybe they thought it was a joke or something. They should have just let it go. Never mind whether or not the guy should have been made to wear it - it is such a stupid thing to do to begin with.

\Not enough flair! Can't do your job without enough flair... *stupid pointy haired bosses*

Why didn't he just pray for god to kill all the satan worshipers? Thats what god does right?

What an idiot

Stan marsh:
Yeah, but then he'd be promoting Durrman Cain and be even MORE likely to go to hell...

/just sayin'

Seems he didn't get the memo where the number of the best was changed to 616 Link (new window)

/did he get a sunburn, or burn a finger on something hot when he wore the 616 sticker?
//He's an idiot, and this being GA, and a 'right to work' state, don't think there is much he can do

FIrst off, it's not 666 and I am god damned fed of with people not knowing this...uh,,never mind.

EnviroDude: \democrat - for not respecting his employee's freedom of speech to not wear the sticker or participate in such a pagan activity

Eh, no. The first amendment applies to governmental sanctions against free speech, not private. I still think the company is full of moronic PHB's. It's just that Nick Cages hair is a bird nest, and thus your argument is invalid.

Mike-Judge-from-Office-Space-in-that-"pieces of flair" scene-with-DEVIL-HORNS-drawn-on-him.jpg.

Fire?

Actually, this reminds me of when I worked at a car dealership. A guy came in looking for a suburban so he could bring his family/friends down to some religious get away. So found a late model that he could afford and went about doing the paperwork. Well, I got that ready, and he went to pick up his wife in his 'new truck'. When he got back, he signed all the paperwork, got financing dealt with and was really happy. The next day he came back and told me, that if he realized that the VIN ended in 666 he wouldn't have bought it.

/csb
//I noticed it of course, didn't bother saying anything because I knew I would have lost the sale
///Damn glad I don't sell cars anymore though

EnviroDude: some stuff

You can do better than this.

Well, if the factory were such morons to waste money on changing stickers for all their workers to wear EVERY DAY, i guess they're stupid enough to let this happen. Methinks this was some power trippin a**holes idea to do this, force people to do something this ridiculous, then fire the one person who has a problem with it on one occasion.

And yes, i'm not siding with the religious aaargleblaargle on this, but not THINKING that trying to make someone wear some sort of sign contrary to their religion might cause trouble that will cost you lots of money makes you a moron. This would prob be equivalent to making a Muslim wear a photo of a full frontal nude chick, or making a Jew wear a Pork-chop.

Feral Duhbya: When you believe in things you don't understand, then you suffer.

Sees what you did there.

Alternatively, he could have just hit himself in the head with a hammer every 665 days.

nicoffeine: Feral Duhbya: When you believe in things you don't understand, then you suffer.
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Sees what you did there.


No he doesn't.

GAT_00: Pretty sure he's going to win that. There's no reason you should be allowed to fire someone for not wearing a sticker.

Wow. What an imbecile.

GAT_00: Pretty sure he's going to win that. There's no reason you should be allowed to fire someone for not wearing a sticker.

I agree. While I don't assign any particular meaning to "666," it does seem demeaning to make employees wear stickers and other things.

Strangely enough, wait staff in surburban restaurants seem to have to wear a lot of badges, etc

eViLpOpTaRt: GAT_00: Pretty sure he's going to win that. There's no reason you should be allowed to fire someone for not wearing a sticker.

I agree. While I don't assign any particular meaning to "666," it does seem demeaning to make employees wear stickers and other things.

Strangely enough, wait staff in surburban restaurants seem to have to wear a lot of badges, etc

Satanic flair is the bestest flair.

My company uses stretch wrap film from Berry Plastics so I'm getting satanic kick out of this thread.

Feral Duhbya: When you believe in things you don't understand, then you suffer.

Your newsletter....etc..etc etc...

I don't think I'd've fired the guy. Maybe written him up or sent him home for the day without pay. Then again, one less derpy relig-o hanging around the place proselytizing (he sounds like the type) can only be a good thing. Maybe this was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

The real question is why the factory has "666 days without an accident" stickers to begin with.

They would either have to be printing up stickers for every single day (which is a really big hassle), or someone had chosen "666" specifically as a major benchmark, which would be really odd because it doesn't fall on any traditional benchmarks and it's negative association in Christianity should be common knowledge.

QuesoDelicioso: I don't think I'd've fired the guy. Maybe written him up or sent him home for the day without pay. Then again, one less derpy relig-o hanging around the place proselytizing (he sounds like the type) can only be a good thing. Maybe this was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

If he had been proselytizing, I'd have fired him for that before I fired him for refusing to wear a stupid sticker.

Because then HE is infringing on the rights of others, and has no chance of suing without counter-suits that would annihilate him.

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There are so many other ways to have solved this "issue" including offering the employee the choice between wearing the sticker or taking an unpaid day (or week, depending on the scheduling of the workers) off work. Or they could have printed him a special ">665 days" sticker. But chances are pretty good that this is a whiny employee that management doesn't really feel the need to accomodate, and his refusal to wear the required "pieces of flair" was deemed to be "just cause" in getting rid of some deadwood.

My guess is that they had stickers saying "_____ days without an accident" and would write in the number with marker.
Anyhow, I think there is probably more to the story than the guy just saying he wouldn't wear the sticker.