Post by Logan on Apr 10, 2016 3:41:51 GMT -6
State employee ordered to remove ‘Don’t tread on me’ flag from office
After his co-workers complained, a West Virginia water agency manager was ordered to remove from his office wall a large Gadsden Flag that depicts a coiled rattlesnake and the words “Don’t tread on me.”
Mike Duminiak, a geographic information system [GIS] manager at the state Water Development Authority, put up the Gadsden Flag — a yellow flag popular with the tea party movement — following a grievance hearing during which he alleged his fellow employees harassed him. Duminiak also has filed an ethics complaint against the agency’s executive director, Chris Jarrett, and an executive assistant.
Jarrett ordered Duminiak to take down the flag, calling it a “disruption” that prompted complaints from agency employees.
“It made some people in the office uncomfortable,” Jarrett told the Gazette-Mail last week. “It was about 3 feet in length. It said, ‘Don’t tread on me.’”
- See more at: www.wvgazettemail.com/news/20160410/state-employee-ordered-to-remove-dont-tread-on-me-flag-from-office
After his co-workers complained, a West Virginia water agency manager was ordered to remove from his office wall a large Gadsden Flag that depicts a coiled rattlesnake and the words “Don’t tread on me.”
Mike Duminiak, a geographic information system [GIS] manager at the state Water Development Authority, put up the Gadsden Flag — a yellow flag popular with the tea party movement — following a grievance hearing during which he alleged his fellow employees harassed him. Duminiak also has filed an ethics complaint against the agency’s executive director, Chris Jarrett, and an executive assistant.
Jarrett ordered Duminiak to take down the flag, calling it a “disruption” that prompted complaints from agency employees.
“It made some people in the office uncomfortable,” Jarrett told the Gazette-Mail last week. “It was about 3 feet in length. It said, ‘Don’t tread on me.’”
- See more at: www.wvgazettemail.com/news/20160410/state-employee-ordered-to-remove-dont-tread-on-me-flag-from-office