Man fired for wearing a button! What is your take on this?

I'm going with this....

Fishel says Home Depot has a “proud history” of supporting the military, and that it sanctions several of its own buttons for employees to wear, including one that reads: “United We Stand.”

Basically.. it comes down to... people can wear buttons, but not religious ones? God could be considered offensive to some workers or customers?

People can sugar coat it any way they want. Other employees were wearing buttons too. God is becoming offensive to many and being taken out of too many things. I wouldn't take that button off either. Standing up for what he believes in is what it's all about.

If you don't stand up for what you believe in, what have you got left?

He shouldn't have been fired right off the bat, especially since he was wearing it for over a year. There should have been at least one if not two official "talkings to" and he should have been fired only if he refused to comply. I think the manager was trying to save his butt because he should have told him he couldn't wear it from the beginning.

He wasn't targeted for his religious beliefs. He was targeted because he violated his uniform code with which he agreed to when he signed up. Granted, he shouldn't have been fired, but he violated his dress code and had been for some time. The left might be up in arms if he were a Muslim, but that wouldn't change anything or get his job back. If you agree to wear a uniform or agree to some sort of specific dress code, you should abide by it.

He was out of uniform, they pointed it out and he refused to change, so they fired him, where's the problem?

He was in the wrong. I support both his statement and his grit for not backing down, but Home Depot has a policy for dress code and he was violating it. They have every right to fire him.

He's pushing the religious angle hoping to win money out of the case. Not very christian of him is it?

He wasn't fired wearing a button that was patriotic. He was fired for wearing a button that was religious. Do I think he should have been fired? No. But I don't think the words "Under God" should appear in the pledge either. The original pledge did not contain the words "Under God" and they were inserted there against the will of the Francis Bellamy estate.

The one thing you can always count on the media for is to get the details of this type of story wrong. What you have is a former employee who is suing his former employer blabbing to the media and the employer refusing to comment due to the lawsuit. His goal is to make it sound as outrageous as possible to push them to a big settlement.

It doesn't matter when they asked, he refused to remove it when they did. He refused to conform to their request. That is "for cause."

If he wanted to fight it, he should have gone ahead and remove it, THEN file a discrimination suit. Because he refused, he has no case now.

If things continue as they have been, nobody will come to the mans defense. Heres a true example: my sister-in-law was fired from a job last season for saying Merry Christmas to a customer. So what does that tell you?

He was fired for violating dress code, plain and simple.*

Well a private company can certainly fire someone for that if they wish. I might not agree with it but it is a private company