DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Build-A-Bear Employee Allegedly Refuses To Name Stuffed Animal After Charlie Kirk At Teen’s Request.

“She just didn’t agree with it. She didn’t support it and she told me, ‘We’re not doing this,’ folded it up in a force and threw it away,” McCormick said.

The teen gave her payment card to her friend Kailie Lang and left the register. “It definitely made us all very uncomfortable,” Lang said.

Amber McCormick, the teen’s mother, spent 45 minutes on the phone with Build-A-Bear’s corporate office. The company first offered a $20 gift card, then called back days later with an apology, the mother said.

Build-A-Bear acknowledged the incident shouldn’t have happened and promised to retrain staff in Seattle and nationwide to keep politics out of the workplace.

Unless the apology came from the employee who refused the request, it’s meaningless.