Posted: 3/19/2012 12:55:22 PM EDT
Law firm fires 14 employees for wearing orange shirts
They weren't wearing sagging pants or revealing clothing. But dressing in an orange shirt is apparently enough to get fired at one Florida law firm, where 14 workers were unceremoniously let go last Friday. In an interview with the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, several of the fired workers say they wore the matching colors so they would be identified as a group when heading out for a happy hour event after work. They say the executive who fired them initially accused them of wearing the matching color as a form of protest against management. USA Today |
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Probably wearing it to bitch about their wages or some shit. To bad, Florida is right to work, and can fire them for whatever reason. Exactly what I was thinking, some kind of stupid protest where they didn't think it would have real world repercussions. Now that these idiots got fired, "they were just wearing orange to go out".  Convenient.
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That would suck if you weren't part of the group and just decided to wear orange that day.
They should have no problem collecting unemployment though and if they were actually good at their jobs, they will find new ones. This will likely be the company's loss. In each case it will probably be the best thing that ever happened to them. |
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That would suck if you weren't part of the group and just decided to wear orange that day. They should have no problem collecting unemployment though and if they were actually good at their jobs, they will find new ones. This will likely be the company's loss. In each case it will probably be the best thing that ever happened to them. They got fired. I doubt it would be the companies loss. A lot of employee's, no matter how big their heads are, or how important they think they are, are easily replaceable. If they weren't easily replaceable, there is a good chance that they wouldn't have been fired. 
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Quoted: Quoted: That would suck if you weren't part of the group and just decided to wear orange that day. They should have no problem collecting unemployment though and if they were actually good at their jobs, they will find new ones. This will likely be the company's loss. In each case it will probably be the best thing that ever happened to them. They got fired. I doubt it would be the companies loss. A lot of employee's, no matter how big their heads are, or how important they think they are, are easily replaceable. If they weren't easily replaceable, there is a good chance that they wouldn't have been fired. Must be a pretty big office if they can fire 14 people at once. It's also something that anybody doing any research before picking a firm to represent them will find, and since the firm isn't commenting, the only side of the story anyone will find is that of the former employees claiming they had done so repeatedly in the past on paydays without any issues but got fired for it this time without warning. |
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Freedom. It works both ways. You are free to wear the shirt, they are free to fire your ass for wearing that shirt. Too bad you went to the media and made the company look bad, you burnt that bridge to the effin ground. That bridge was burned long before they went to the paper. |
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Probably wearing it to bitch about their wages or some shit. To bad, Florida is right to work, and can fire them for whatever reason. Exactly what I was thinking, some kind of stupid protest where they didn't think it would have real world repercussions. Now that these idiots got fired, "they were just wearing orange to go out". Convenient.Actually if they WERE doing a job action it would've been a "protected job action" and the firings would've been illegal. Go figure that one. |
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All they have to do is file a discrimination lawsuit, and claim that wearing the color orange is part of their religion and the employer's action in firing them violates federal law which requires employers to make reasonable workplace accomodations for religious attire in the workplace as long as it is not violating safety standards.
Then, for the case to succeed, they just need to make up some kind of weird religion which requires them to wear orange of course. 
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Protestant trolls? First thing I thought of. What is this "protestant trolls" thing? I don't get it. A large group of them wore orange to work on Friday. Saturday was St. Patrick's Day. If you look at the flag of the Republic of Ireland, it's green at the hoist end and orange at the fly end, with white separating the two. Green has always represented Irish Republicanism, AKA Ireland for the (typically Catholic) Irish. Orange has always represented Protestantism and the folks who have slaughtered and occupied the Irish for centuries. Maybe their boss is a Hibernian-American Catholic and they were trying to send a message. If so, message received. |
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Probably wearing it to bitch about their wages or some shit. To bad, Florida is right to work, and can fire them for whatever reason. I suggest that you do some reading on what Right to Work actually is. http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/laborlaws/a/right_to_work.htm I believe that you're confusing the Right to Work concept with the Employment at Will concept. |
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I bet there is more to the stroy than whats told.... Unless the company is going down the shitter or layin off folks, you don't just fire 14 people for wearing a funky colored shirt... Would have sucks if you just happened to wear orange that day and got fired along with rest of the crew for whatever they were doing... |