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Woman Claims She Was Fired for Bumpersticker By Matthew Rothschild

by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 5 April 2006
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Woman Claims She Was Fired for Bumpersticker

By Matthew Rothschild
March 11, 2006

Linda Laroca has a bumpersticker on her car that says, “1360 Air America Progressive Talk Radio.”

That allegedly got her into trouble with her boss at Advantage Sales and Marketing, according to an article in North County Times [1] by Teri Figueroa.

Laroca appeared on the Ed Schultz radio show on March 10 and gave this account.

She and her boss were speaking in a parking lot when her boss noticed the bumpersticker.

“Isn’t that the Al Franken leftwing talkshow?”

Laroca says she thought maybe this was a trick question so she hesitated and then said yes.

“Don’t you know our country is on high alert?” her boss responded, according to Laroca. “For all I know you could be Al Qaeda. You’re fired.”

Schultz asked Laroca what she did next.

“I picked up my jaw and drove home,” Laroca said.

Laroca is suing Advantage Sales and Marketing and the woman who allegedly fired her.

A media relations person at Advantage Sales and Marketing would not comment, and would not allow her name to be used.

Laroca says the manager called her the next Monday and offered her the job back.

“She said, ‘I was joking,’ ” Laroca told Schultz.

Schultz asked Laroca if she still has that bumpersticker on her car. “Oh, you better believe it,” she said. “I’m going to wear it proudly.”

Source URL:
http://progressive.org/mag_mc031106

Links:
[1] http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/03/09/news/sandiego/20_24_273_8_06.txt

Forum posts

  • I am a right-wing nut, therefore, I am a lunatic. At least, this is what the manager seems to have as a rule of life.

    • No, actually, it’s more like:

      I am a spooked Whitey American who thinks anyone who is not as spooked and isn’t as reactionary as I am is Al-Qaida. Therefore, I am going to deny you your livelihood.

      Or, like:

      I am a spooked Whitey American and enjoy being spooked and like living in my make-believe world, listening to Rush and Matt and Hannity and watch Fox News and believe that the gospel is spoken on CNN. Anything that tries to tame my spooked nature is beyond my ability to consider. Therefore, I cannot reason or debate you and I am taking away your livelihood.

      I could go on... The mode of the American public’s thinking is more along the lines of this manager than otherwise.

    • We really don’t live in a free country any more. I’ve heard and read countless stories much like this one since the 2004 Presidential election. People need to be more careful who they talk to and who they maintain contacts with. Many of our friends and family members continue to delude themselves into thinking that our country is still a decent nation, and they too cannot be trusted. Remember the pod people in the 1950s classic film, ’Invasion of the Body Snatchers’. Our present situation is very similar. We need to learn how to survive much like the millions of decent Germans had to survive when their country was over-run by powerful racist & criminal elements during the 1930s.

    • someone calling whitey america spooked by a spook HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHA WHAT A FUCKIN JOKE

    • Please get off your soap box and start communicating like a rational human being. Everything, but *everything*, in your eyes has to be twisted into racism. Remove the log from your eye before trying to do anything about the splint in someone else’s. I believe that the rampant racism you see around you has little to do with the real world, and everything to do with your apparently very twisted view of it.