‘This Was a Setup’: Office Depot’s Firing of Worker Over Viral Video Sparks Boycott Calls As Company Scrambles Into Damage Control

Office Depot is facing backlash after firing an employee for refusing to serve a customer.

A video posted on X by Republican activist Matthew DePernan shows a female Office Depot employee telling him that they will not print the poster because the company “doesn’t print political propaganda.”

DePerna tells the employee on video that the poster was for a prayer vigil that night, and she didn’t back down.”


The Kalamazoo County Republican Party needed the posters for the event held at Bronson Park in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Friday.

“We don’t print that here,” she says, before identifying as a manager.

A woman, with DePernan, then asks what makes the poster propaganda.

“He’s a political figure, and I don’t have to…” the woman starts to explain before she’s interrupted by a cowo