Hobby Lobby: no paid sick leave, God didn’t tell me to pay

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I know of a white collar worker who was not only allowed to work from home but tried to steal furniture from his office and then filed workers compensation when he couldn't fit the chair into his car.

Two different companies. Two different owners. Both Evangelical religious. Both separately ventured into controversy.

The Chick-Filet guy refused to cater same sex weddings.


I remember Hobby Lobby being in litigation that took them to the surpreme court, but like Fnord, I forgot why.

Had to look it up. The problem was the affordable care act, and the morning after pill. Mr. Green, owner of Hobby Lobby felt it was against his religion to participate in the ACA because it would mean he would pay for the morning after pill - which violtes his religious beliefs. According to Wiki the Supremes finally ruled in his favor.

But there were other religion related controversies according to Wiki. A customer asked "why are there no Jewish hoiday things stocked in your store?" and an employee told the customer that it violted the owner's religious beliefs. The customer publicly complained.

Now they are starting to stock Jewish holiday things.

He also got into trouble for smuggling ancient artifacts out of Iraq to give to a Bible museum.

The stores are closed on Sunday so the employees can have the sabbath off, but ...God told his wife to tell him...NOT to give them sick leave! Somehow she got a sign from God. Maybe he texted his wife. Or maybe God talked to her from a burning bush?

The burning bush only makes sense about the morning after pill, not covid-19. The refusal to pay for birth control was an idea after his wife's bush was burning one year on their anniversary, so he started by refusing her treatment then later expanded the refusal to pay to employees with similar situations.

If you're gonna take a Biblical reference, and turn it into a dirty joke, at least do it right!

Crabs might make a person's "bush" feel like its "burning". But not pregnancy. AFAIK.

You are dodging as usual. I was talking about calling in sick when they weren't, and you said how dare they take advantage of their employers, as though you approved of it.

By the way my understanding of fake sick call offs comes from the working stiffs in the family. They get screwed over by it because they have to cover part or all of the faker's shift, if someone can't be found to come in on their day off.

And then there are covidiot managers at employers trying to guilt people on 14 day quarantines or self iso into coming back to work early. Someone posted about their manager at Canada Post doing this and everyone collectively told her to file a complaint with her union and tell the manager to F off, basically.

So ridiculous that any employer thinks they can call people back up to the frontlines early from quarantine or self iso rn. Like F off ya greedy jackasses; there’s a global pandemic going on ffs.

No paid leave means I take meds to suppress my symptoms enough no one thinks I am sick and I go to work and make management sick.

I think we may be straying too far from the subject here, but the last email from my work was a warning that we are not allowed to take office furniture to work from home. It took my company awhile to approve taking desktop computers home, I never considered someone might try to take furniture