May 22, 2002
Source: St. Petersburg Times
On May 22, 2002 the St. Petersburg Times reported that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed suit charging Sykes Enterprises Inc. with religious discrimination. Sykes terminated Frances Wagner in 1997 from her job "answering tech support questions from computer users at a call center in Sterling, Colo... But when she was reassigned to provide technical support for ultra-violent computer games, she said her religious convictions prevented her from doing so. And when she balked, Wagner said, the Tampa [FL] company fired her after a year on the job... According to the lawsuit, she told her supervisor that 'to help children put trash in their computer was an abomination in the eyes of God.'"