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Theist wins lawsuit because he's "afraid of the devil"
January 28, 2015 at 5:28 pm
Quote:Let’s say you run a business that, like thousands of others, tracks employees’ attendance and work hours. In the old days, you’d use cards and a clock-based machine that stamps workers’ sheets with the date and time of their arrival and departure. To make matters more efficient and bring the whole shebang into the digital age, and to discourage fraud – like workers “buddy-punching” each other’s time cards to illegally inflate hours – you then upgrade to a biometric scanner.
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After the changeover, there’s a small problem: One worker refuses to use the scanner. You sit him down and ask what gives. He explains that his non-negotiable objection is of a religious nature: the scanner, he believes, will secretly imprint him with the mark of the Beast.
Are you, as his boss, justified in firing him?
That question was the at the heart of a two-year tug of war between Consol Energy Inc., a natural-gas and coal company out of Philadelphia, and Beverly Butcher Jr., a Consol employee and fundamentalist Christian who worked at a company mine in West Virginia. At some point, the U.S. government got involved: the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against Consol on Butcher’s behalf.
And now we have a jury verdict: Consol has to pay Butcher $150,000 for violating his religious rights.
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RE: Theist wins lawsuit because he's "afraid of the devil"
January 28, 2015 at 5:30 pm
(January 28, 2015 at 5:28 pm)Sionnach Wrote: Quote:Let’s say you run a business that, like thousands of others, tracks employees’ attendance and work hours. In the old days, you’d use cards and a clock-based machine that stamps workers’ sheets with the date and time of their arrival and departure. To make matters more efficient and bring the whole shebang into the digital age, and to discourage fraud – like workers “buddy-punching” each other’s time cards to illegally inflate hours – you then upgrade to a biometric scanner.
After the changeover, there’s a small problem: One worker refuses to use the scanner. You sit him down and ask what gives. He explains that his non-negotiable objection is of a religious nature: the scanner, he believes, will secretly imprint him with the mark of the Beast.
Are you, as his boss, justified in firing him?
That question was the at the heart of a two-year tug of war between Consol Energy Inc., a natural-gas and coal company out of Philadelphia, and Beverly Butcher Jr., a Consol employee and fundamentalist Christian who worked at a company mine in West Virginia. At some point, the U.S. government got involved: the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against Consol on Butcher’s behalf.
And now we have a jury verdict: Consol has to pay Butcher $150,000 for violating his religious rights.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyath...the-devil/
Yeah, read this yesterday.
Utterly fucking ridiculous.
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RE: Theist wins lawsuit because he's "afraid of the devil"
January 28, 2015 at 5:31 pm
It'd be interesting to read the explanation as to how such a machine would mark him for eternal damnation.
And by "interesting" I mean hysterical.
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RE: Theist wins lawsuit because he's "afraid of the devil"
January 28, 2015 at 5:31 pm
How is being crazy a religious right?
Oh, wait...
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RE: Theist wins lawsuit because he's "afraid of the devil"
January 28, 2015 at 5:32 pm
Asinine.
They should have simply fired him for being a shithead.
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RE: Theist wins lawsuit because he's "afraid of the devil"
January 28, 2015 at 5:35 pm
Well I'm sure Beelzebub doesn't want to touch that prick either.
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RE: Theist wins lawsuit because he's "afraid of the devil"
January 28, 2015 at 5:36 pm
Really?
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RE: Theist wins lawsuit because he's "afraid of the devil"
January 28, 2015 at 5:37 pm
What the heck was the judge thinking?
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RE: Theist wins lawsuit because he's "afraid of the devil"
January 28, 2015 at 5:39 pm
150000 dollars --> WTF is wrong with these brain dead dipshits?
Hint - The employer could claim the employee is possessed by Satan and therefore the former can't pay him a compensation because pacts with the devil are forbidden.
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RE: Theist wins lawsuit because he's "afraid of the devil"
January 28, 2015 at 5:40 pm
(January 28, 2015 at 5:32 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Asinine.
They should have simply fired him for being a shithead.
Think about how easy it would be to make his life intolerable by using that tool of the devil... technology. "Hey Beverly, did you see the new auto-open lobby doors? Or the auto-flush urinals? And we replaced the copyists with Xerox machines! Woowowoowoooooo SATAN hahahahahaha!"
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