Woman alleges dismissal due to Air America bumper sticker

A Vista, California woman is suing her former employer for allegedly firing her for having an Air America bumper sticker on her car. Linda Laroca made the progressive talk radio rounds Friday on national and local radio shows. During interviews Friday, Linda Laroca said her former employer later told her the comment about the firing was a joke, and asked her back to work.Laroca alleges in her suit that her former manager spotted the bumper sticker advertising Air America, told Laroca she could be a member of al-Qaida, and fired her on the spot. The manager, Beverly Fath, called Laroca the Monday after the weekend incident to askher why she was not at work. When she replied that she had thought Fath had fired her two days prior, she was advised that the comments about the firing had been in jest.

Asked if she had mistaken her former manager's alleged comments, Laroca told the North County Times she didn't believe the woman had been joking. "If she was, I didn't take it that way," Laroca said. "She wasn't smiling."
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