Man Fired After Being Photographed Drinking Wrong Beer

It's also determined by how much the general manager decideds to act like a small-minded, humorless, petty tyrant.

I fear it may not be.

I agree that Bud Lite is a lame drink. Regardless, this is essentially a free speech issue, isn't it?

I know, I know, Stern's a public figure. I'm not saying that Miller was right to fire the employee, but maybe they did have the right to fire him. I doubt that what they did is illegal.

That woman in Alabama was fired last year for having a Kerry/Edwards sticker on her car. These are scary times.

Does he have any recourse towards the paper for this? I know in some places taking pictures in bars and casinos is prohibited to protect the privacy of the patrons, mainly.

Yeah, I think the issue here is whether he was drinking the Bud Light as a representative of Miller Brewing Company. Which he clearly wasn't: he was doing so as a private citizen, and anyone who picked up the newspaper would have no clue who he actually worked for, so there couldn't possibly be any damage done to the company.

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RACINE - Isac Aguero would rather fight than switch.

Aguero was fired Monday, the same day a picture appeared in The Journal Times showing him holding a bottle of Bud Light. He worked for CJW Inc., the area's supplier of Miller Brewing Co. products.

On Friday, Aguero, 24, met with reporters throughout the day at his apartment, which he recently moved into. A neon Bud Light sign glowed on one of the walls of an otherwise sparsely furnished room.

Aguero says he's not going to stop drinking Bud and he's trying to hire a lawyer to build a case against his former employer.

"I called a couple of people and I'm waiting to hear from them," he said. "Bud Light is my drink of choice and I'm not going to change."

The story begins on Saturday night when Aguero was out in Downtown Racine during the Mardi Crawl event. His picture appeared in The Journal Times' weekly On the Town feature on Monday.

Attorney Nola Cross of Milwaukee thinks Aguero might have grounds for legal recourse. While Wisconsin is an "at-will" work state - meaning people can be fired at a employer's discretion, as long as it's not for discrimination - another state law may be on Aguero's side.

"In Wisconsin, employees are protected from discharge or other adverse employment action based upon the `use or nonuse of lawful products off the employer's premises during nonworking hours,' " she said.

There are some exceptions in state law, said Cross, a labor attorney in Milwaukee for 30 years, such as situations where the employer is a nonprofit corporation whose mission is to discourage the product's use, such as the American Cancer Association and an employee who smokes. Another exception is when the product impairs the employee's ability to work, such as coming to work drunk, she said.

"In Wisconsin, all of us of age are free to drink or abstain from drinking Bud Light or Miller, or anything else that is legal," Cross said. "The concept is that, while most employment is `at-will' employment, Wisconsin employers do not own their employees like feudal serfs - at least not while they are off work time and outside the employer's

premises."

Aguero said he learned there was a problem with the photo shortly after he showed up to work on Monday. Co-workers told him he was in trouble for the picture. He was then called into the general manager's office and was told he was fired.

Aguero said he was not given a reason for the dismissal, and claimed he never had problems with his bosses at work. He had worked at CJW for about four years before he was fired - and had drank Bud Light even longer than that, he said.

Thomas Bey, a CJW sales manager, read a statement to The Associated Press on Friday and would not answer any questions. He said the company does not publicly discuss past or present employees.

"We consistently remind our employees that drinking alcohol is entirely a personal decision," Bey said. "The image and reputation of any company is determined in large part by the way its employees are seen to behave. Our employees can and should be our best ambassadors."

PS, "At-Will" wtf?

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i still keep having bad dreams about places i've been fired from, tho.

They don't think it's fair that other employees have to pay a part of the medical costs that are the product of this lifestyle choice.

The whole notion that Microsoft is "frowning" at the fact that the workers there own iPods is hilarious. Almost everyone on the bus over to Redmond has them. I don't use the little white headphones, because they're uncomfortable and don't sound as good -- so maybe I'm unintentionally conspicuous, but I never had to hide my iPod when I was working there. As long as I did the work I needed to (which sometimes required I get into iPod zone out), that's the bottom line, and it wasn't a concern. It's counter-productive to be a bit fascist about it.. and I've never heard of anybody at MS getting fired over using an iPod.

They don't think it's fair that other employees have to pay a part of the medical costs that are the product of this lifestyle choice.

So just deny them health insurance...

this guy get his job back or does he work at fuddruckers now

Unless there are two Isac Agueros in Racine, Wisconsin, he's a real estate agent now!

If only Johnny Paycheck were still with us to write a song about this.

great revive

who's gonna say it, who's gonna say it

it was a great revive though tbf

My brother used to work at Unilever and during his tenure there, everything in his house that could be Unilever was. At Christmas, all of our gifts from him were Unilever. Nothing conveys the spirit of Christmas more than this box of liquid soap! He came to my apartment one time, went into the bathroom cabinet and said, "what is this? It's not Unilever! You're disloyal!" Honestly, during his tenure there, he was as bad as Amway.

Some of these places are like those South Korean companies where you eat, sleep and exercise the company. Americans like to think they're better, but they're not.

My uncle worked at 3M. He would send along very thoughtful Christmas presents for us kids, but every year there was also always a basket containing way more than a year's supply of scotch tape and post-it notes.

Man Fired From Coldwell Banker Real Estate Job After Being Photographed Wearing Re/Max T-Shirt

My uncle worked at 3M. He would send along very thoughtful Christmas presents for us kids, but every year there was also always a basket containing way more than a year's supply of scotch tape and post-it notes.

lol are you my cousin

Your dad worked at 3M? Must have been company policy. My uncle lives in Stillwater.

Neanderthal I have some bad news about Fuddruckers

Fuddruckers is a terrible dining experience

the one near me is overpriced af lol

tbh I was expecting it to be like TGI Friday’s or something.. it’s actually more like eaten in a dungeon cafeteria

eating

lol at ruddfuckers, thought that place was long-gone

(it is)

there are like 30 in texas alone.

wtf

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brb going to the panama city fuddruckers. but .. which one?

fwiw i am sourcing this from the fudd ruckers website. is this a deep fake?????

yeah it's def not gone, I literally have one mere miles from my house that I've eaten at in the last year (pre-COVID).

wasn't a great culinary experience but

did it ruck your fudd?

ruck if you fudd

it's like compressed Fuddruckers from the old days, where you'd see the people cooking the burgers in that big back area.

sometimes I just get a drink and steal pickles from the condiment bar...and stare at the manager and see what they'll do.

never ran afoul of the law before that night - now it colors my future.

I dream in infrared

appreciate this fuddruckers realness