Business owners stand by decision to fire workers who protested

Business owners stand by decision to fire workers who protested

CNN)Jim Serowski knew his employees planned to skip work last Thursday.

They told him they wanted to participate in "A Day Without Immigrants," the nationwide day of protest. Serowski, founder of JVS Masonry in Commerce City, Colorado, said his position to them was clear:
"If you're going to stand up for what you believe in, you have to be willing to pay the price."
When Serowski's foreman and some 30 bricklayers failed to show up for work, he fired them all with no regrets, he said...

...Several business owners and managers across the country told CNN their decision to fire protesters was not about politics or immigration. They said they are running their businesses responsibly...

"I've gone above and beyond for these people," he said, seemingly distraught. "No one is going to dictate how my company is run."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/20/us/workers-fired-day-without-immigrants/index.html

Yeah, fire their asses. They decided they could just take the day off, at least in part shutting down the business thus forcing the company to 1.) lose money to support THEIR protesting and 2.) to effectively force the owner to participate in the protest - plus of course customers suffering too.

Nor should ANY of them receive unemployment because they walked off the job. Not showing for work it grounds for discharge for cause.

That way they have the time to go protest for more welfare money. As an employer I would laugh at someone who explained the reason the were fired was because of not showing up for work to go protest. I'm fairly confident I would laugh, but to be polite not say something like "are you a slower learner? Maybe on drugs?" I can not imagine ANY employer who was rational hiring someone who said "I was protesting" (anything).

"No malcontents need apply."

 

When I heard about the firings over this bigoted protest my first thought was "haha ha ha hahaha haha GOOD".

But immediately after my second thought was "I sure do hope these business owners stay safe".

Because as we all know, and have all seen endless amounts of evidence in demonstration, the Left begins these things as simply a loud bigoted mob of angry people but surely soon the anger gives way to violence.

I hope these businesses don't come under "peaceful protest" aka arson and looting.

I hope these business owners, and their families, don't become victims of "random attacks" aka targeted Leftist violence.

I hope for these things but we all know that somewhere right now some Leftist is plotting a violent response.

 

Hopefully they get boycotted out of business.

 

Do you know what a no call no show is?

I can tell you right now every single job i have ever worked would have fired me if i pulled a stunt like that.

 

You should hold your breath till they do. Maybe drop to the floor and flail around a little bit too.

I do find it interesting illegals come here then demand we make it ok they have broke numerous laws. What's even more interesting is democrats seem to care more about illegal immigrants than they do Americans. It's like the forgot who they represent, could be why they are a coastal party. But if they keep it up they might become the next Whig party.

 

As a salaried employee I could take off, but I couldn't just not show up unannounced. That would be a MAJOR strike. Besides it being against code, it's just bad conduct. Bad team unity. You can't just not show up for work for no reason and expect there to be no consequences. The real world doesn't work like that. Where I work, they would literally send out a search party and missing person's report to see if I'm alive if they couldn't reach my wife or emergency contacts, but then again, I work at an amazing company. But not so amazing my boss wouldn't be pissed off for playing hooky.

I'm sure some leftist activist lawyer will help idiots sue their employer for reprimanding them for being BAD employees=)

 

Why?

Is it because of the triggering feels element?

Because firing an employ who doesn't show up for work or indicate they will be gone has pretty much been a standard in business around the world for centuries.

Fact is if these people weren't militantly engaged in a bigoted racial hysteria protest nobody would be objecting to their firing.

Would anybody be objecting to people who skipped a day of work without calling in so that they could go see the new Star Wars movie getting fired?

No, they wouldn't.

 

They will just find more illegal immigrants to paint. It isn't like it is rocket science.

 

Now you're butt hurt because this childish tactic back fired, just like Occupy Wall Street, boycotting Chic fil A, wearing vagina masks, and just about everything else the left does.

 

Folks have a right to protest. We applaud it. We also thank those who self identified as undocumented illegal workers. It should make the clean up easier.

I've worked around the globe. In every instance, I was there as a guest of the host nation. Every nation in which I worked had a strict non-immigration policy, every nation I worked in had a very highly staffed enforcement process to ensure that someone didn't overstay their visa.

That for some reason liberals in this country feel this is unnecessary is only a further demonstration of their willingness to use illegal immigration as an excuse to continue the massive size of their social services networks.

 

This would never happen in a socialist country. No one ever gets fired there. Its a practical Utopia. Just look at Venezuela.

 

Okay, let me see if I got this straight. Immigrants say they are critical to the economy of this country, right? Then, they duck out of their "critical" positions in the foundations of our economy to attend a parade, right?

I'm so confused!

 

Yeah, just like Chick Fil A

 

Ivanka Trump’s Perfume Soars to No.1 Bestseller on Amazon Despite Boycotts

The success of Ivanka Trump’s perfume on Amazon suggests the ‘resistance economy’ to boycott products associated with the family of President Trump can help a brand as well as hurt it.

http://heatst.com/biz/ivanka-trumps-perfume-soars-to-no-1-bestseller-on-amazon-despite-boycotts/

Wegmans supermarket sells out of Trump wine after proposed boycott.

http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2...ls-out-trump-wine-after-proposed-boycott.html

I can't understand why these boycotts aren't working can you?.

 

If they were protesting on their own time and got fired shame on the company and they should sue the hell out of them. I doubt that's the case more likely they figured it would be fun to protest and skip work. Possibly not the best decision.

 

It's not a no call no show if they decide to call out however, and it sounds like they had voiced their intent to not show up for work.

If these immigrants were illegals, then (*)(*)(*)(*) these (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) business owners who hired them. They should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. American citizens could have had those jobs.

If these are LEGAL immigrants, it just goes to show you that this country has the saddest, most depressing set of worker protection laws, thanks in major part to the right wing hypocrites, in the westernized world.

This country is a (*)(*)(*)(*)ing joke, either way.

BTW - May Day is a world wide thing. We invented it. We're one of the only countries that doesn't give workers off that day. I wonder why. We value our employees so little. We view everything as myopic, self serving, numbers on a chart, instead of considering the human element and what people need.

The right wing is PRIMARILY to blame for this mindset.

 

Fake news? Anyone got proof this stuff wasn't bought by the Trumps themselves? lol.

(this is a joke, btw.... but not a far stretch, I imagine.)

 

Lol

I have no idea what Ivanka Trump's perfume smell like, but I just bought a couple of bottles on Amazon for my mom and sister.

I'll see if they like it and get another one for my wife.

Until two weeks ago, I had no clue that Ivanka had perfume and didn't care. Still don't care but like contributing to giving rabid lunatics a consumer middle finger.

 

Firing employees who didn't show up for work after being warned. How dare them.

 

I really think companies need to stress at time of hiring....'no politics or religion allowed in workplace'! Look at what's happening to companies who hire Muslims.....they think they're entitled to take their prayer breaks during work hrs, even if it interrupts the work schedule.

Good for this guy for canning their asses. There's plenty of people out there who would appreciate a job and mature enuf to put his/her job b/f protesting.........

 

Political views are not a protected class.

 

Cause its the right that has money to spend on things like this unlike the left which SNAP doesn't cover perfume. The right is the middle class. When they call for a boycott, it actually has a negative effect on the product in question, like Target.

 

Why is an employer expected to take a financial hit because of the political beliefs and activities of his/her employees? Beliefs and activities that he may not agree with?

This is the "entitled" mentality that has really weakened this country. No, someone is not entitled to keep their job just because they have something better to do that day. Sorry. If they want the day off, let them ask their bosses for it like responsible adults would do. This isn't high school.

 

If I'm the business owner, and you walk off the job, don't bother coming come back. Someone else will be in your old spot.

 

No. It hasn't weakened it. Giving workers paid time off is beneficial to the employer because the employees are more loyal, more productive, more positive, and in general create a better earning environment for the company.

There are THOUSANDS of studies that PROVE what I just said.

Protecting the right to protest is a union duty; if these workers were unionized, they would be protected from employers who fire them for taking ONE DAY OFF.

I for one am absolutely sick and tired of this notion that having time off is somehow weakening the country when all evidence everywhere else proves otherwise.