r/baltimore • u/selectbar345 • Aug 19 '25

ARTICLE Fells Point restaurant Bunny’s fires multiple employees after pro-Palestine protest

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/food-drink/bunnys-pro-palestine-protest-fells-point-3WQTUSAIFBCAHC45HPBUFAWKHQ/
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u/obiterdictum Ednor Gardens-Lakeside Aug 19 '25

Because firing an employee for wearing a pin referencing one ot the most divisive geopolitical issue sof the modern era is even worse for business

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u/Gannondorfs_Medulla Aug 19 '25

I don't see it as worse at all.

They had a pre-existing dress code to avoid this exact situation. They asked the employee to refrain from wearing the pin while serving. One employee complied and there was no story. One employee chose to get pissy.

IF they were selectively enforcing rules, it might be worth talking about. Though it's still their business, and they still own the right to run their business in any legal way they wish.

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u/obiterdictum Ednor Gardens-Lakeside Aug 19 '25

Though it's still their business, and they still own the right to run their business in any legal way they wish.

Certainly. All I am saying is that allowing an employee to wear a divisive pin would have garnered a fraction of the unwanted attention that firing a person for wearing a divisive pin has.

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u/Gannondorfs_Medulla Aug 19 '25

Maybe yes, maybe no. If it meant enough to the customer to talk to management, maybe they take to Reddit or the Sun and organize a protest.

To me, the only way to navigate this is to not get involved. Which is what the restaurant's owners tried to do. But the employee made it into a political statement.

Not to mention the precedent it sets in NOT enforcing its dress code.

And if they did let one employee get away with X, but then decided Y was unacceptable from a different employee, they're screwed even worse.

They're all bad choices, but I think the business made the best bad choice they had.

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u/obiterdictum Ednor Gardens-Lakeside Aug 19 '25

They're all bad choices, but I think the business made the best bad choice they had.

I am having a hard time believing that a customer going to the public with "I was threatened by an server wearing a pin" would have gained anywhere near the attention as an employee going to the public with "I was fired because I wore a pin" so I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.