Worker fired after posting picture of Jesus

A call center employee says he has been dismissed from his job for posting an artist's rendition of the crucifixion during Easter week, even though other employees were allowed to post pictures and art as they chose in their cubicles. Chris Romansky, a former employee of Barclays, said he was told there had been a complaint about the picture he put up to remind himself of Christ's sacrifice on the cross, a foundational belief in Christianity. A company spokeswoman, Donna Sokolsky, said that the job termination "had nothing to do with anything religious whatsoever." But she said she was not permitted by human resources to know "more beyond that." Romansky said his dismissal was effective April 13, and he has contacted state labor regulators about filing a complaint. "We're actually allowed to hang up pictures on our cubes. I had a picture of my wife, and there's a cross in the background but that didn't seem to bother anybody," he said. He also had posted a couple of Internet clippings, but those generated no response either. Then during the Easter season, he said, "I hung a picture of the crucifixion, actually it was before Easter. It was of the crucifixion of Jesus and it showed the Resurrection and it said 'Happy Easter.'" "I came in on the following Tuesday, and it was face down on my desk, so I put it back up," he said. Then a team manager came and told him there had been a complaint that it was "offensive" and he had to take it back down. The manager called him into her office. "She told me people were offended, and she told me anything with Jesus and God can't be up," Romansky said.