Second Gay Employee Fired From Tennessee Hotel

[FreeState]

http://outandaboutnewspaper.com/article.php?id=3227

Another openly gay employee has been fired from the ARTE' Hotel in Brentwood/Nashville and claims his sexuality was the main reason for his termination.

Former Asst. General Manager Leonard Studdard's employment was terminated by hotel owner Tarun Surti via email on Thursday, Jan. 8.

Stoddard's termination follows that of David Hill who was fired last week from the hotel. Stoddard and Hill claim that they were fired because of Surti's anti-homosexual views. But, Surti maintains that both men were fired for other reasons.

Surti said in an email to Stoddard that he was fired because he lied to the media about Hill's termination....

[cliffordu]

1. Kicked and recommended.

to keep it on top

[noiretextatique]

2. sounds like retaliation

and a lawsuit.

[RetiredTrotskyite]

3. k&r and...

It sounds like retaliation to me and I hope both men will sue the Surti bastard.

[William769]

4. A right wing nut job that works at the same Hotel I do, went berserk

When she found out that our Hotel was listed on a couple of internet sites as being Gay friendly. She brought the problem to me because I am the Sales & Marketing Director of the hotel and asked me how we were going to fix this abomination. I politely told her that I was the person in charge of marketing and I am the person that did it.

After she got done having a coronary she contacted the owners of the hotel (we are privately owned not part of any chain) as to what I had done and that this action would surely help run our business into the ground. The first question the the managing owner asked her if she knew that william (thats me) was Gay and that I did it with their blessing. She then began to go off on one of her rants & before she could finish she was told if she didn't like it there was the door. Unfortunately she didn't use the door so she can't be that upset.

I on occasion have the front office staff do work for me since we are a small hotel and I don't have a staff, I assigned her the task of scouring the internet on non sexual Gay sites to see where we could do some more advertising.

Damn I love my job!

[monmouth]

5. Oh William, you are good!...Hahaha....n/t

[Jamastiene]

7. I like that.

:evilgrin:

[SacredCow]

6. And check out Mr. Tarun Surti's contributions....

http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/tarun-surti.asp?cycle=02

As of 2002, he sure did support a lot of Democrats. With friends like this.... :eyes: