A Gay Chick-fil-A Employee Speaks Out

[evewithanapple]

So when people boycott Chick-fil-A, it means I don't get hours. Which means I don’t get money. Not just me, but ALL of the LGBT employees at Chick-fil-A. Yes, CFA hires LGBT people. No one’s been fired for being gay or coming out. It’s a job. A job that can’t be taken for granted when work is scarce across the country. We have to eat too. So sure,

Comments

[nope_de_plume]

I'm really glad I'm not in a position where I have to choose between working there or working at all, and I'm not going to begrudge anyone who is. It's a shit situation and she's doing what she has to to get by. I hope she's able to get out of there someday.

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[carmy_w]

Seconded-and someday SOON.

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[fornikate]

indeed.

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[anjak_j]

MTE.

Just an awful situation to be in - having to choose between principals or having a job to pay rent. Just an awful example of being stuck between a rock and a hard place.

I really hope a better job comes along soon for this person. They deserve not to have to work for awful bigots who don't have the first idea of what it is to be 'Christian'.

[flcadam]

Ha, I was actually Googling the term "gay Chick-Fil-A employee" to see if anyone who was gay and working for the organization had something to say about the controversy. It's pretty cool that someone finally is speaking out and presenting another side to this.

[nope_de_plume]

Another side? Did you read the whole thing? She takes back the original quote and says if she wasn't working there she'd be boycotting.

Not that the original quote makes that much sense since boycotting does hurt the parent company, and if people are going to other chains instead of Chck-fil-a that would mean increased business in those chains and more hours for their lgbt employees but that's not the point.

[flcadam]

Yes, she gives her perspective of the company as a gay employee. So far we've only heard the perspective of heterosexual CEOs who claim that it's a good environment for gay employees. It's hard to make that determination without actually hearing from a gay employee.

[iconnu]

Yep. I totally misunderstood your first comment too.

[_lemeurtre_]

"Boycotting Chick-fil-A doesn’t hurt the company."....pretty sure it does, if enough people participate.

[rex_dart]

I felt awful for her reading this. At the same time I can't believe she ever thought that when stores are cutting hours, that doesn't indicate that the company as a whole is hurting.

[kitanabychoice]

Well, considering that some companies have cut jobs and had record profits in the same year, I can see how someone would feel like the parent company doesn't really get hurt.

[rex_dart]

Generally that involves shipping jobs elsewhere, but you can't outsource fast food workers or make their jobs redundant. If this corporation is really only in the business of making chicken sandwiches and they're not making enough chicken sandwiches to retain workers, they're going to have trouble making up that cash elsewhere.

[skellington1]

Ditto -- the original quote seemed quite ignorant, or perhaps thoughtless. Also, by that logic you'd never boycott any company because they might have [minority] working for them.

Still, she should get credit not just for the stress she went through (which sounds terrible) but for being strong enough to stand up and say "This is what I said. I think I was wrong." That's a really hard thing to do all by itself!

[tsuni_night]

Great post