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Former Marketing Director Sues Tiffany & Co After Being Fired Over A Religious Conversation Went Wrong

<p>Its a common saying that you never discuss religion or politics at the dinner table but it looks like Tiffany &amp&semi; Co ain&&num;8217&semi;t here for it either&excl; Apparently the luxury jewelry retailer fired their former marketing director&comma; Kristin Rightnour after a conversation she had with two coworkers &lpar; one Catholic and a Jew&rpar;  went left&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to TMZ&comma; the incident took place right before Easter weekend began&period; Allegedly&comma; Rightnour had started a conversation where she discussed how she heard that Catholics believe Jews killed Jesus Christ&excl; The Jewish colleague immediately grew uncomfortable and said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;They didn&&num;8217&semi;t teach us any of this in Hebrew school&excl;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Well word got around fast to HR and they had to kick that azzz to the curb after she was first put on one-year probation&period; Now she is suing for at least &dollar;42&comma;000 because she claims thats how much her bonus was supposed to be before they fired her&period; She has also filed a complaint with the <span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5&semi;">United States Equal Opportunity Employment Commission&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5&semi;">Rightnour argued that the conversation did not go the way that HR had received it&comma; denying that she even mentioned Jews killing Jesus&period; Her lawyers stated that she<&sol;span><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5&semi;"> &&num;8220&semi;vigorously denied&&num;8230&semi; having ever said anything of the sort while simultaneously maintaining&comma; when asked&comma; that she is in fact a devout Catholic&comma; that her religion was known to her colleagues&comma; and that what Ms Rightnour had explained is indeed a standard Catholic belief&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5&semi;">Tiffany &amp&semi; Company has yet to respond about the matter&period; Lets chat below<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>TSR Intern&colon; 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