Bank teller *gasp* fired for religion on the job!

[AllPurposeAtheist]

A bank teller named Polly Neace claims that her former employer U.S. Bank had her fired for referencing God by saying, “Have a blessed day.” In response, Neace has filed a lawsuit against U.S. based upon religious discrimination.

In a related report by The Inquisitr, Catholic-owned businesses are using the recent Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision to claim that they should not have to pay for birth control for their employees based upon their religious beliefs.

The reason Neace believes her firing was a case of religious discrimination is because she had supposedly been telling her customers the same for years:

    “I say ‘have a blessed day’ all of the time. I don’t think there’s any better kind of day you can have than a blessed day.”

Eventually, someone in management decided to reprimand her officially for saying “have a blessed day” after several customers supposedly filed a written complain the months prior to March of 2011. According to U.S. Bank, Neace also committed a “code of ethics violation” because she asked a customer, “Did you take the Lord’s name in vain?” and then talked to the customer about her Christian beliefs.

http//www.inquisitr.com/1333523/bank-teller-fired-for-referencing-god-by-saying-have-a-blessed-day-files-a-religious-discrimination-lawsuit/

[stromboli]

Memo:

Never point out to the female manager of your bank that her religious symbol is a Roman torture device.

Word to the wise.

[Nam]

Does this woman know that her people are trying to get a bill through Congress so they can fire people who get abortions, are homosexuals/transgendered, not Christian, not white, etc.,? She should embrace this not sue because of it.

-Nam

[PickelledEggs]

Memo:

Never point out to the female manager of your bank that her religious symbol is a Roman torture device.

Word to the wise.

Unless your goal is to make the other person livid... 

Sent from your mom

[SGOS]

For a couple weeks I had to engage a local businessman on a daily basis, sometimes two or three times a day.  Without fail, he would end every transaction with, "Have a blessed day."  A friend of mine had gone through the same thing with him, and mentioned this odd peculiarity in passing, but I was still not ready for how creepy it would eventually become.  I suppose it was important for him to communicate to his clients that he was a Christian, or maybe it was just an odd habit, but good grief, it became annoying after the 10th time.  Whether he was calling attention to his belief in the supernatural, or didn't realize it had become a laughable habit, it gave me the creeps. I dreaded having to have contact with him just because it was so weird to have him anoint me with blessedness at the end of every transaction.  And he always did it with this gooey sweetness as he was trying to screw me out of a few extra dollars.

"Have a blessed day!"  WTF was he thinking??.  Was he going to cause blessedness to rain down upon me all day long?  It was annoying because of the shallowness of the blessing.  Rather than experiencing bliss, I was just annoyed by his totally useless behavior that in no way what-so-ever changed the quality of my day, except that it made me want to avoid him as much as possible.

[wolf39us]

link broken?

[Moralnihilist]

Does this woman know that her people are trying to get a bill through Congress so they can fire people who get abortions, are homosexuals/transgendered, not Christian, not white, etc.,?

Is this an actual thing? I couldn't find anything on the google.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The phlebotomist at the VA clinic I go to always had religious music on the radio in the blood draw room. She sends everyone off with "Jesus loves you!" I think she's figured out I don't give a rats ass about her imaginary friend.

[stromboli]

Polly Neace sounds like Polynice, son of Oedipus who was born into strife and was killed by his brother.

See? Bitch had it coming.

[Solitary]

For a couple weeks I had to engage a local businessman on a daily basis, sometimes two or three times a day.  Without fail, he would end every transaction with, "Have a blessed day."  A friend of mine had gone through the same thing with him, and mentioned this odd peculiarity in passing, but I was still not ready for how creepy it would eventually become.  I suppose it was important for him to communicate to his clients that he was a Christian, or maybe it was just an odd habit, but good grief, it became annoying after the 10th time.  Whether he was calling attention to his belief in the supernatural, or didn't realize it had become a laughable habit, it gave me the creeps. I dreaded having to have contact with him just because it was so weird to have him anoint me with blessedness at the end of every transaction.  And he always did it with this gooey sweetness as he was trying to screw me out of a few extra dollars.

"Have a blessed day!"  WTF was he thinking??.  Was he going to cause blessedness to rain down upon me all day long?  It was annoying because of the shallowness of the blessing.  Rather than experiencing bliss, I was just annoyed by his totally useless behavior that in no way what-so-ever changed the quality of my day, except that it made me want to avoid him as much as possible.

Next time you go there ask him: "What's poppin' ?"

[AllPurposeAtheist]

link broken?

weird..it's one of those ISP 404 pages with links, but I got there from Google news..

[The Skeletal Atheist]

I feel like there's more to this. Maybe it's because I live in the south, but hearing "have a blessed day/bless you" isn't that big of an issue to me. "Talked about her Christian beliefs" seems like the thing that needs more detail. If she was blatantly proselytizing then good riddance. It's a bank, not a church. If she was simply "talking about her beliefs" then she has a case I suppose, but still...It's a bank. No one gives a shit about your belief at a bank, they just want you to take their/give them money.

[Nam]

Is this an actual thing? I couldn't find anything on the google.

I heard it on Rachel Maddow about how a church group is trying to push a bill through Congress to be able to discriminate against LGBT people but the bill would also discriminate against others, as well. But that parts hush hush.

-Nam