I have been conducting a one-person boycott against Wal-Fart since 2001, because I objected to the way they were treating friends of mine who worked for them, and because they have contributed more the the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs than any other US company. But their treatment of this employee follows the best tradition of GOP hatred.
A Las Vegas man who held a temporary job at Walmart says he was stripped of all his responsibilities and made to wear a yellow vest after telling his manager that he’s gay.
Fernando Gallardo has filed a complaint with the Nevada Equal Rights Commission claiming that his boss at a Vegas-area Walmart confronted him about his sexuality, and then began treating him rudely and alienated him from co-workers after learning Gallardo was gay, reports The Advocate.
"I was completely ignored and shunned," he wrote in a complaint to the rights commission. "I had nothing to do all day but wander around the store wearing a yellow vest no one else had to wear, much like Jews had to wear a yellow star of David in Hitler’s Germany."
The Advocate reports that within two months of Gallardo’s forced admission, "his supervisor and two other managers stopped talking to him completely."
Gallardo, who no longer works at the Walmart location, also claims the store management attempted to "bribe" some of the other temporary workers at the location with permanent jobs in exchange for claiming that Gallardo had offered up the information about his sexual orientation voluntarily… [emphasis added]
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For this company to persecute an employee over his sexual identity is obscene.
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Incredible. I don’t know what kind of employment-discrimination laws Nevada has, but I hope they take Mall-Wart to the cleaners for this.
The story should win over a few additional supporters to the boycott, too. (I haven’t shopped there in years.)
I hope the courts tear them a new… never mind.
We do not shop at Walmart for these same reasons, and also the fact that they move in, take out smaller mom-and-pop stores, decide to increase store space, move out and leave an empty building. What ever happened to their “Buy American, Made in America” meme? Yep, just like most of the GOP I’ve known: liars all.
Another good post.
Thanks Judi. Good on you! It gave way to their corporate greed meme.
I’ve never shopped at Walmart for the same reasons, but this is really above the pale. I hope he gets millions in his lawsuit.
So do I, Lisa.
These Wal-Mart horror stories never end. Not too long ago they had an employee who was a cancer patient, and using medical marijuana (prescribed by his doctor, legal in his state). They made him take a drug test, and when he tested positive for marijuana, they fired him.
Tom, that does not surprise me at all.
My Wife and Son worked at Walmart for almost three years. A horror… They suffered for me, because I couldn’t work. I could write a lot about them, but for now I’ll say we to Boycott Walmart.
Tim, I’m so sorry. My friends (online) lived in a small town in Ohio. There was no other employment. They suffered as well.