Beer Choice Cost Man His Job

“Beer Choice Costs Man Job
Monday, February 14, 2005

RACINE, Wis. — A man may have found out firsthand just how nasty the competition is between the world's two biggest beermakers.

Isac Aguero, 24, said he was fired from his job with a Miller Brewing distributor, the same day a picture appeared in The Journal Times of Racine of him drinking a Bud Light, which is brewed by Anheuser-Busch Co. (BUD).

The photo, taken Feb. 5, was part of the newspaper's weekly "On the Town" feature, which depicts the city's night life.

Aguero, who had been a forklift operator at CJW Inc for four years, told the newspaper he was informed by co-workers when he arrived at work Monday that he was in trouble because of the picture.

He said he was called into the general manager's office and told he was fired. Aguero said he was not given a reason and claimed he never had problems with his bosses.

"It was a Saturday and I wasn't at work," he told The Journal Times. "They can't tell me what beverages I can drink.


"Bud Light's my beer of choice, I always drink that. Just because I work there, do I have to change what I drink?"

Thomas Bey, a CJW sales manager, read a statement to The Associated Press Friday and would not answer any questions. He said the company does not publicly discuss past or present employees”

“I think that's taking things too far. But it was a Bud Lite so....”

“Yeah if he had been drinking a decent beer like Anchor, Sierra Nevada, a local micro, or even something foreign in a green bottle I would have cut him some slack. But drinking a Bud Light or even a Miller... I'd have cut him loose on the spot too!”

“People who drink light beer don't really like the taste of beer.
They just like to pee alot.”

“"I'll have the Samual Jackson please..."”

“It'll git ya drunk!!!”

“At least he wasn't drinking Natural Ice.”

“F---ing journalists never get the story straight - its the media bias. First it implies he was drinking beer and then it says he was drinking Bud Light. Which was it?

In other news, I'm sure the guy can get a job with Anheuser-Busch. Maybe that's what he is bucking for. I can see the commercial already.”

“SH, I tried some of Sierra Nevada's Holiday ale. I tried their Pale Ale and really like it.
I use to drink Bud yrs ago cause it beat drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon (shudder the thought). I prefer Miller's MGD over any Bud product.

Also a lot of beers/ales taste better on draft than they do in a bottle/can.”

“I always thought it was funny when I'd drive by the big GM plant and see all the Toyotas in the parking lot. LOL!”

“I'd take a PBR over a Bud any day.”

“Hey PBR has a booming market in the PNW. Drinking a Blue Ribbon is sort of a proletarian statement against the effete, limp-wristed oligarchs sipping on micros and SN. You know who I'm talking about.... Sol, Navi, etc ...yeah those rich fat baStards.”

“PBR was nasty 30 yrs ago and it is still nasty.”

“Who you calling "Rich"?
Them's fighting words (word), in fact, No Navi Ale for you.”

“Come on ......you know I was just doing some tom foolery on ya. Hey I love you man .... mean it.”