More taste, less job

An employee of a Miller Beer distributor who was fired after his picture appeared in the newspaper drinking a Bud Lite, is pursuing a potential lawsuit against his late employer.  Isac Aguero, a forklift operator for CJW, Inc., an independent distributor, was out partying one evening, and the next day his convivial portrait appeared in the Racine (Wisc.) Journal Times.  Trouble was, he was holding up a bottle of the brew made by archrival Anheuser-Busch.  He was fired the next day.  Aguero is exploring whether he can be fired for such off-duty activities.

Miller itself had no hand in the firing, but it may suffer from it, since Aguero has been on radio and television nationwide telling his story.   David Letterman is apparently interested.  An online poll by the Journal Times has Racine residents voting 59-6 against his firing.

Thanks to Marie Reilly (South Carolina) for the pointer.