Loserville hosts its annual War on Christmas segments. From mid-November to Christmas, the news readers and conservative agitators on the network find a part of America where the holiday is under attack from secular activists who want to Christ out of the holiday.
Bill-O, That Guy Who Helped Obama Win, Megyn The Outrage Princess, and the Bow Tied Manchild have covered the war from the frontlines of the studios of Loserville, hoping for an ultimate victory against the axis of Atheism.
The service industry urges its workers to avoid saying Merry Christmas because it may offend non-Christian buyers. They believe that every holiday is equally acceptable. When you think about Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Year's Day, it's too many holidays.
Holidays that are often busy shopping days for retail and hospitality services. The service industry is a beast.
Shoppers who have economic woes and also a strong detest to being wrong have become the norm of the service industry. I don't say the customer is ALWAYS right. The customer is entitled to it. Regardless of how wrong the shopper is, management is willing to save the sale if they satisfy the customer.
Being a fateful watcher of Loserville could be a problem for the woman who punched a Salvation Army bell ringer in the arm for saying Happy Holidays to her.
Kristina Vindiola told KNXV that she was collecting donations outside a Walmart in Phoenix and chose the wrong greeting for one woman.
Kristina Vindiola was hit by an angry shopper after she said "Happy Holidays" to her.
“The lady looked at me,” Vindiola recalled. “I thought she was going to put money in the kettle. She came up to me and said, ‘Do you believe in God?’ And she says, ‘You’re supposed to say Merry Christmas,’ and that’s when she hit me.”
Vindiola said that she notified Walmart managers that the woman had hit her in the arm, and the police were notified.
“She should’ve just been happy I said ‘Happy Holidays,’ but I got hit because I didn’t say ‘Merry Christmas,’” she pointed out.
After reviewing Walmart surveillance video, Phoenix determined that there was not enough evidence to arrest the suspect. Vindiola is considering taking legal action against the woman.
The Raw Story covers this controversy. It's probably the latest things that comes from the social networks.
When people are obsessed with their hatred of President Barack Obama and devoted followers of conservative media, you would expect this. Luckily this person didn't pull a gun out and shot the young woman.
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday blocked a massive sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart on behalf of female employees in a decision that makes it harder to mount large-scale bias claims against the nation's biggest companies.
The justices all agreed that the lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. cannot proceed as a class action in its current form, reversing a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. But they split 5-4 along ideological lines over whether the plaintiffs should in essence get another chance to make their case.
The lawsuit could have involved up to 1.6 million women, with Wal-Mart facing potentially billions of dollars in damages.
Now, the handful of women who brought the case may pursue their claims on their own, with much less money at stake and less pressure on Wal-Mart to settle. Two of the named plaintiffs, Christine Kwapnoski and Betty Dukes, attended the argument. Kwapnoski is an assistant manager at a Sam's Club in Concord, Calif. Dukes is a greeter at the Wal-Mart in Pittsburg, Calif.
The ruling could make it much harder to mount similar class-action discrimination lawsuits against large employers.
The majority agreed with Wal-Mart's argument that being forced to defend the treatment of female employees regardless of the jobs they hold or where they work is unfair.
Justice Antonin Scalia's opinion for the court's conservative majority said there needs to be common elements tying together "literally millions of employment decisions at once."
But Scalia said that in the lawsuit against the nation's largest private employer, "That is entirely absent here."
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, writing for the court's four liberal justices, said there was more than enough uniting the claims. "Wal-Mart's delegation of discretion over pay and promotions is a policy uniform throughout all stores," Ginsburg said.
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Business interests lined up with Wal-Mart while civil rights, women's and consumer groups have sided with the women plaintiffs.
Both sides have painted the case as extremely consequential. The business community has said that a ruling for the women would lead to a flood of class-action lawsuits based on vague evidence. Supporters of the women feared that a decision in favor of Wal-Mart could remove a valuable weapon for fighting all sorts of discrimination.
"The court has told employers that they can rest easy, knowing that the bigger and more powerful they are, the less likely their employees will be able to join together to secure their rights." said Marcia D. Greenberger, co-president of the National Women's Law Center. "The women of Wal-Mart, together with women everywhere, will now face a far steeper road to challenge and correct pay and other forms of discrimination in the workplace."
The lawsuit, citing what are now dated figures from 2001, said that women are grossly underrepresented among managers, holding just 14 percent of store manager positions compared with more than 80 percent of lower-ranking supervisory jobs that are paid by the hour. Wal-Mart responded that women in its retail stores made up two-thirds of all employees and two-thirds of all managers in 2001.
The company also has said its policies prohibit discrimination and that it has taken steps since the suit was filed to address problems, including posting job openings electronically.
