Chili's says Louisiana worker was fired for 'harassment,' employee says it stemmed from pronoun dispute

A former Louisiana Chili's employee went viral for saying he was fired for refusing to use a coworker's preferred pronouns, but the restaurant claims the termination stemmed from repeated harassment that violated company policy, not the employee's views on gender identity. The former employee , Wesley Kirk Ford Jr., alleged on social media on Saturday that he lost his job after referring to a nonbinary coworker "by her actual legal government name." Chili’s disputes that characterization, saying