Stupid Business Award

I came across this story on FOX News and then Googled it.

I'm not going to do the usual citation of sources, it really isn't worth it. Just Google "pizza national anthem." You'll get all you need.

It seems a guy in Fayetteville, NC in the heart of an area with military bases, worked part time at a stand at an arena or ballpark selling pizza from a booth behind the playing area.

When the national anthem was played, he and the other people would stop waiting on customers and stand at attention. No one complained, until recently. Some guy named Rick, who's an executive with the arena or ballpark, Crown something, or someone who works for him,came up to the pizza guy and told him he couldn't stop selling during the national anthem. FOX had a response from someone at Crown saying that where the people are, in the seats, it was perfectly right to stand still if you are vendor; but, in the "non-seating areas" it is not "traditional" to stand attention like the pizza guy did. Online, the Rick guy defended Crown by saying that a study had been done and that Crown was doing what all the other arenas/ballparks were doing.

Yeah, I imagine they have people buying hot dogs, sushi and pizza under the stands. But they probably aren't messing with someone who stops for a minute or so during the national anthem in a military town and then trying to lamely defend it.

Rick what's your name, bad move. You have Rather Than Working's first ever stupid business award.