BUDWEISER EMPLOYEES - BE CAREFUL!

Saw an interesting story in Jeff Ruby's The Closer column of the March, 2006 Chicago Magazine. Jeff reported on a recent year-end summary of interesting workplace events as compiled by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago outplacement firm. The compilation, aptly entitled 2005 Most Unbelievable Workplace Events, described an unfortunate decision made by a Budweiser distributor employee in Greeley, Colorado. Seems the employee, a Mr. Ross Hopkins, was enjoying a Coors at a local establishment and was spotted by the son-in-law of his boss. The son-in-law offered to buy Hopkins a Bud, but Hopkins refused. The following Monday, Hopkins was fired. According to Hopkins lawsuit, he was advised that drinking a competitor's beer was "...putting food on the competitor's table, while we are putting food on yours." According to Ruby's article, Hopkins claimed he ordered a Bud, but the waitress mistakenly brought him a Coors. Moral of the story? If Hopkins ever buys a horse, it damn well better be a Clydesdale.