A Day Without Latinos, a life without a job.

How many of you could walk out of work and still expect to have a job? Apaprently Latinos who left work without permission or prior approval are suing because they were fired from Applebee's because they left right before lunch to participate in a Day Without Latinos. This, despite the fact that they were told they would be fired if they left. The managers even said had they asked the day before they could have accomodated them. I am guessing that maybe some organizers urged people to leave work in hopes that something like this would happen so they could sue and get more publicity.

The JSonline article states that "An estimated 200 workers were fired, suspended or sanctioned for going to the Milwaukee rally..." Good for those employers. Unless there is some very important circumstance (marching in a protest parade is not one of them) my take on this is if you walk out of work, you deserve to be fired. Plus, its a shitty job at Applebee's. There are 50 or more restaurant jobs in the paper every day. Go find another job and try not to fuck this one up.