Best Buy Employee Allegedly Fired After Exposing Religious Discrimination

A man who came to the United States after fleeing religious persecution in Serbia thought he had finally found a home where he would not face persecution — until he was allegedly fired from Best Buy for exposing the religious discrimination he faced in the workplace.

Former Best Buy employee and Geek Squad member Enis Sujak explained the situation in a post on his GiveSendGo page.

“My family fled religious persecution in Serbia so I could live my life as a Christian without being persecuted for my beliefs — yet that is exactly what is happening,” Sujak wrote. “On September 1, 2023, Best Buy terminated my employment because I stood firm against workplace discrimination based on my religion and I exercised my right to be a Christian.”

The Serbian immigrant, who is living in Jacksonville, Florida, recently exposed a recorded conversation between himself and his manager that revealed potential religious discrimination and promoting preferences for the LGBT community.

Sujak gave the audio recording to investigative journalist James O’Keefe, of O’Keefe Media Group (OMG).

The audio recording contains a conversation between Sujak and his manager Mike Hirsch — where Sujak asked why LGBT flags are appropriate in the office but Christian crosses are prohibited. The conversation came after Sujak walked out of an employee session about the history of the LGBT community in the workplace that was being presented by a “well-being” ambassador.

“Let’s have the cross all over the hub … why don’t we have Christian stuff all over?” Sujak said.

“They’re not the same [as pride flags],” Hirsch allegedly replied, adding: “You are choosing to believe in Christianity … they [LGBTQ community] don’t choose it.”

Speaking with O’Keefe, Sujak revealed that he had a long discussion with his manager about work-appropriate symbols.

“It was like an hour and 30 minutes of he and I just going back and forth with him telling me that it was work appropriate to have all this LGBTQ stuff that’s going on in the office and everywhere else,” Sujak explained. “But it’s not okay for me to, you know, be a Christian myself and have a Bible right over there — that’s right there at the office — or have a cross or a Koran or anything like that.”

“That’s not work-appropriate,” he continued. “But you know, having LGBTQ pride flag everywhere else. That is work-appropriate, and I wasn’t standing for that.”

According to the Best Buy website, the company is committed to an Equal Employment Opportunity policy — which includes a vow not to discriminate based on religion.

“Our management is dedicated to ensuring the fulfillment of this policy. When necessary, we will reasonably accommodate employees and applicants with disabilities and with religious requirements necessitating accommodation,” the website adds.

Sujak announced on his GiveSendGo page that he had retained constitutional attorney Mike Yoder, as he plans to file a civil rights lawsuit against the company for allegedly violating his right to be free from workplace discrimination for his religious beliefs.

He noted that he has never argued that people with differing beliefs should be treated differently — as he only wanted “to be treated the same as them, and have my beliefs respected equally.”

Sujak is the second Best Buy whistleblower to approach O’Keefe about the company’s alleged discrimination in the workplace — with the first whistleblower coming forward with a memo from Best Buy showing that the company had created a program in 2022 that was only available to employees who “identify as Black, Latino, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander.”

“The program is not open to white applicants,” O’Keefe explained.