Fired for not Being Mormon

[TBF]

(This is an employment news story - possibly interesting considering the connection to Bain Capital. Please let me know if there's a better forum for it - it didn't seem like late breaking news scope to me).

Fired for not Being Mormon, Managers Say
By NICK MCCANN
Tuesday, April 17, 2012


EUGENE, Ore. (CN) - Former members of Bain Capital fired six out of seven managers of a senior housing company because they are not Mormon, the fired managers claim in Federal Court.

David McCurdy and his co-plaintiffs sued Sorenson Capital Partners, Care Holding Co., Care Senior Living, and SCP Care Acquisition. The plaintiffs claim that Care Senior Living, which manages assisted-living and other care facilities, hired them in March 2011, and that all six of them "had a proven track record of success in the senior housing industry."

They say the private equity firm Sorenson Capital Partners, which controlled Care's daily operations, fired them because they are not members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

"The principals of SCP, including a number of its managing directors and officers, are former partners or executives at Bain Capital and Bain & Company," the complaint states.

Republican presidential candidate-in-waiting Mitt Romney founded Bain Capital in 1984 after working for Bain & Co.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/04/17/45678.htm

[msongs]

1. a nasty club to be sure, but the smile in your face aspect is fully developed as PR nt

[benld74]

2. I swear I thought it said "Fired for not Being Moron"

[meow2u3]

11. Mormon, Moron...

Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

[progressoid]

3. I can believe it.

Nepotism is strongly encouraged among LDS followers. I have heard of family members getting hired for jobs when their only skill being an LDS family member. Even creating positions just for family members when none was needed.

[Phlem]

4. I experienced the same thing at my last company.

I went back for a contract (for less money) after being layed off by the company after 5 years.
The CFO even had the nerve to tell me that the they look out for they're own and moved me into a room to talk to recently baptized Mormon, who used be my friend until he started getting weird and lying about shit. Only because my non practicing wife and my name came across his desk during some ritual, procedure, I don't know.

Won't be able to prove that in court.

-p

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Non Mormons in Utah face this sh=t every day.

Been there done that. Utah's EEOC is a big time joke,run by Mormons for Mormons. You have to get yourself a gay Mormon lawyer to defeat these turds. Works every time.

[WingDinger]

6. Remember, that piece of shit religion, called for lifetime boycott of all jobs for students that pro

protested Dickwad Cheney. I almost became one of those stats. My Co. moved there. Discriminate against them? More like the otehr way around.

[virgogal]

7. Never trust anyone who doesn't like the occasional smoke and drink.

[Jim Lane]

10. LOL, I don't drink or smoke, so now I'm an honorary Mormon?

Oh, wait, I play poker online for money. I guess I can keep on being an agnostic.

[tk2kewl]

8. K&R

[Ilsa]

9. Some friends from Texad did loan review at a bank in Utah.

They said that they pulled up a list of zero percent interest rate loans, thinking they were nonperforming. The loan officers said, "No, that is the only rate (none) that they could afford to pay." So they loaned at 0%.

Then the men in the bank harassed the women doing loan review, asking them why they weren't at home with their kids, or wouldn't they be happier married and with lots of babies.

Getting fired for not being LDS wouldn't surprise me in the least.

One former LDS member I dated said that the church knew what everyone made, and you were forced to tithe.