Man Fired By Bud Distributor For Drinking Coors

[losdiablosgato]

MILLIKEN, Colo. -- A former employee of a Budweiser distributor said a sip of Coors cost him his job.

Ross Hopkins, 41, said he was fired as a supervisor at American Eagle Distributing Company after he was seen by the son-in-law of the company president with a Coors at a Greeley bar.

His apparent disloyalty led to his dismissal two days later. And now Hopkins is suing American Eagle in Weld County District Court for unspecified damages, saying he has a right to drink anything he wants in his off-hours.

In its court response, American Eagle doesn't directly challenge that Hopkins was fired, at least in part, for drinking a Coors in public. But the company said it didn't engage in a "discriminatory or unfair employment practice."



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[losdiablosgato]

1. I do not know which is worse

Being fired or drinking coors?

[KansDem]

4. LOL!

Good one!

Back in the early 1980s I worked a small liquor store in Lawrence, Kansas that sat right off the turnpike (I-70). Occasionally, someone from a Southern state would drop in and buy up all the Coors we had on hand. They would be on vacation coming through on their way back from some place like Colorado and wanted to take as much Coors as they could carry down south to "sell" to Coors aficionados, usually at grossly inflated prices.

I never could understand the attraction but then, since I received a little discount, I could purchase good quality beer at Coors prices.
:beer:

I also wondered if this was a form of "good 'ol boy" drug dealing?

[losdiablosgato]

8. I refuse to buy cheap beer

It is one of the luxuries of life.

[bryant69]

2. What a dingbat story

But of course no employee is ever really off the clock. Corporations have the right to control their employees lives 24 hours a day. It's just common sense.

Bryant
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[izzybeans]

7. I used to work for a Miller and Coors distributer. This isn't uncommon.

Total marketing. You are pressured to "convert" everyone you know to one or all of their products. Coke and Pepsi do the same. Be a salesmen even at home. and such nonsense. It's legitimate I suppose but it gets very annoying trying to decipher what your drinking and where.

Good thing my distributor carried all the micro-brews and imports otherwise I wouldn't have known what to do.

[Oreo]

3. I wouldn't touch either

Coors is like drinking water with a bad aftertaste

[losdiablosgato]

5. Sorry you are wrong there

Coors is far worse. It is like drinking carbonated urine.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

6. Just like the old Monty Python line..

"We find your American beers are like making love in a canoe... fucking close to water"

:D:D:D:D:D:D

[losdiablosgato]

10. True, true

[Skidmore]

9. Wouldn't drink either myself....

Give me a Millstream Wheat.

[lonestarnot]

11. Either is a fatal flaw!

[Occulus]

12. Businesses SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DO THIS.

NO business should be allowed to tell its workers what it may or may not do when off company property and off company time. No ifs, no ands, no buts. I will NOT entertain ANY other argument.

THEY DO NOT OWN US, yet they act like it. First Weyland, and now this.

That man should sue for back pay for a 24/7 work shift retroactive to the day he was hired, as he was obviously considered to be 'on the clock' ALL THE TIME. If they're going to fire him for drinking something else in a bar, they DAMN well better be willing to pay him for being 'on the job' 24/7, PLUS overtime.

I think the man could make a case of that. If you can be fired for what you do on your own time, well, you are NEVER on your own time, and you DAMN well better be paid for it!!

[JHB]

13. AMEN! n/t

[ck4829]

14. Today's Lesson: Don't drink Coors

Drinking Coors at a Budweiser distributor cost one guy his job.

But, the Coors support of the RW is costing many people their jobs.

[losdiablosgato]

15. LIfe is too short for shitty beer.

[bballny]

16. I used

to work in Denver at The Brown Palace and I used to wait on the Coors family. They make me puke almost as much as their beer makes me puke