Entitled "Christian: Bosses: Two Horrid Examples

At least in my opinion, this financial company's CEO
 is way too interested in his employees' sex lives. 
He doesn't want you working for him if you've
had premarital sex. Ugh!

I can't resist a little more on this terrible boss that has come to light a couple weeks after I first posted this.

Dave Ramsey and Ramsey Solutions was predictably sued because the firm is being run as a sort of "religious cult" and demands that employees give "complete and total submission to Dave Ramsey and his views of the world to maintain employment."

You can see a lot of the reasons why this seems to be so in the rest of the post below.

However, Religion News Service gives additional details in relation to this lawsuit. 

Ramsey is a dangerous type. Both megalomaniac and stupid. 

The lawsuit, of course, boils down to Ramsey's stupidity regarding the Covid pandemic. Says Religion News Service:

"Lawyers for Brad Amos, a former Ramsey Solutions video editor, alleged their client was fired by the company because he objected to Ramsey's views on the Covid-19 pandemic. Ramsey has consistently downplayed the risk of Covid-19, has referred to those who wear masks as 'wusses' and barred employees from working at home for much of the pandemic.

'Plaintiff was terminated for failing to follow Defendent's particular view that taking precautions other than prayer against Covid infection would make a person fall out of Gods favor,' the complaint states."

By falling out of God's favor, Ramsey seems to have meant his own favor. Bit of a god complex, dude?  Also, we humans came up with a variety of tools to combat Covid, such as masks, social distancing and vaccines.  Has Ramsey considered that maybe God gave us humans the intellect to come up with these tools and use them?

Nah, people like Ramsey can't think that far ahead, or think beyond their own pathetic selves. 

 

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Would you want a boss who examines who you sleep with and why?  How about a supervisor who wants to get rid of you because you were somewhere other than church Sunday morning?  

It happens, unfortunately. 

Among the many manifestations of our Very Karen Era are bosses that really stick their noses where they don't belong. 

The result is a bunch of self-proclaimed bosses who decide their employees must live the private lives the supervisors want them to lead.

It's obnoxious as hell, but they seem to be getting away with it.  I've got a couple recent, ridiculous examples in this post. I guess employees beware?

A Panera Bread employee in Pennsylvania, Tammy McCoy, was outside taking a break one day when assistant general manager Kerri Ann Show blurted out that she was Christian. Um, OK, fine. Then Show asked McCoy what religion she is.  McCoy said Pagan, according to Triblive.com

As far as Show was concerned, wrong answer. 

Show told McCoy, "You're going to hell." The general manager, Lori Dubs, was in agreement.  Then Show cut McCoy's hours "until you find God."

Check under the counter, maybe?  

In retaliation for her Paganism, at least according to her lawsuit, McCoy had her hours repeatedly cut.  She complained to a district manager. No results. She asked to be transferred to another store. Nope.  The district manager said McCoy would be fired if she tried calleing Panera's HR department. 

McCoy nonetheless called Panera's HR department repeatedly. No return calls. Finally, weeks later, the district manager told McCoy to resign, saying, "How are those phone calls going for you?"

Ultimately, both McCoy and her husband were fired from Panera. McCoy has filed a religious discrimination complaint, according to Triblive.com

In another even more annoying, full-of-himself case, the head of a financial company in Tennessee, Dave Ramsey, is at the center of a federal lawsuit for firing 12 people who he said had premarital sex.

To be clear, said sex did not happen on company time or property.  The people involved were just leading their private lives away from the workplace when they were off the clock. 

This all came to light when Caitlin O'Connor, an administrative assistant at Ramsey Solutions requested maternity leave because she was pregnant.

Instead, Ramsey fired her because it was clear she'd had premarital sex. She had not officially married to her partner. 

O'Connor's subsequent complaint says, "Ramsey contends that her committed relationship and her pregnancy are a violation of its 'righteous living' policy."

So Dave Ramsey gets to decide what is righteous living?  I wonder if he's led such a life.  I'd say no, given that he fired O'Connor for something that is really none of his business. 

According to Newsweek, citing The Tennessean newspaper, court documents show that at least 12 other Ramsey employees were either fired or forced to resign because of alleged sex outside of marriage. 

There's a page on the company's website that says "Employees Have To Follow The Moral Code," in which Ramsey explains himself. "They freaking work for me.....This is an employment at will state, which means if I decide I don't like people with green eyes, I don't have to hire you. I don't have to keep you anymore."

It might be legal to fire somebody for some weird "moral code," I don't know.  But would you want a supervisor who is that interested in your sex life?  What else are you prohibited from doing while not at work? 

The fact that they "freaking work for Ramsey" is the ultimate in hubris. I'm the boss so my employees have to live their private lives they way I want them to, 24/7.  He's not godly, he thinks he's God!

These supposedly "Christian" bosses exhibit the height of hypocrisy as what they're doing probably has little if anything to do with their religion. It's power tripping, pure and simple. 

I see at least two of the Seven Deadly sins at work here. Pride, because these horrible people think they are entitled to lord over people for the silliest of reasons. And Greed, since it's all about keeping people scared and not getting uppity and asking for raises. Or replacing people with the excuse of morality to hire somebody else at a lower wage. 

I know there's a bit of gray area between acceptable and unacceptable behavior off the job that can get you fired. Harming others - even if technically legal - through racism, homophobia, whatever - I think is valid grounds for termination. But sex off the job between two consenting adults? Practicing a religion, or no religion other than Christianity?  

If any busybody CEO is that interested in our sex and religious lives, they probably need another line of work.  I sure as hell wouldn't work for them.