You've got to love it...or leave it. Whatevs. Theregister tells us that an American man has
brought a wrongful dismissal suit over his former employer's attempt to make
him wear the number of the beast - in the guise of a safety record sticker. Billy E Hyatt alleges that he was fired from
the Pliant Corp plastics factory in northern Georgia for refusing to wear a
sticker declaring the factory had been accident free for 666 days, Courthouse
News reports.
While that number is no doubt a testimony to Pliant's workplace
safety practices, it's also, of course, the number of the beast in the Book of
Revelation. There are, El Reg must
point out, a number of beasts in the said apocalyptic text, but the one in
question is the beast of the sea: the one with ten horns, seven heads and ten
crowns on his horns, and "upon his heads the name of blasphemy".
Amongst other impositions, under the beast's reign of terror "no man might
buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number
of his name". That number being, of course, six hundred threescore and
six.
Anyway, in the run up to accident-free day 666, Hyatt raised
his concerns with his boss, explaining "his sincere religious belief is
that to wear the number 666 would be to accept the mark of the beast and to be
condemned to hell". His boss
initially told him not to worry….
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