[MissC]

Although in a "right to work" state you have no protection thanks to Republican interest in business as opposed to personal rights,

Once again... No one has a right to a job. Period.

Seriously... has no one here ever read the Constitution and Bill of Rights? Has no one read any of the Founders, taken a civics class, learned how and why we are a country, or even know the meaning of the word "liberty"? This is just disgusting.

If it were up to you knuckleheads, I'd never be able to fire an employee for any reason, and I could just sit and watch my business run into the ground.

Is it cool to fire someone for their appearance, or who they are, if they are doing a good job? No. I've never done that, and I don't intend to. I personally base everything on performance. But it is the right of a business owner to do so nonetheless. If you don't like it, go start your own business, and see if it works like you think it should. News flash: it doesn't. I'll bet not a damn one of you whiners has ever run a business. You'd know better if you had.

If you get fired from a job because someone doesn't like you... guess what! Your life isn't going to be any easier if you manage to force them to keep you on! Go get a better job somewhere else, hopefully with better pay and better management, and quit the damned whining.

And grow up. Life really gets better when you get over the idea that the world owes you something just for breathing.

On the other hand, the rest of your advice is pretty sound. Going over a direct supervisor's head is never a way to curry favor with that supervisor... but it can be effective as a last resort. I don't have a problem with anyone standing up for themselves... just the notion that anyone has a *right* to be employed.