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Muslim flight attendant sues ExpressJet over suspension
A Muslim flight attendant has sued ExpressJet, accusing the airline of wrongly suspending her because she refused to serve alcohol to passengers.What is it about people who think employment duties are an a la carte menu to pick and choose their duties and the traveling public should accommodate them particularly when they knew the duties before being hired? (hosted.ap.org) Daha Fazlası...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
If you are unable or unwilling to do the job your were hired for you should be fired. To get a job that requires you to sell liquor and then saying your religion stops you from doing you job is wrong. You should have never applied for the job knowing you could not do the work. The airlines should sue you for the money they spent in training you.
Along those lines: checking out at a Walgreens, picking up a prescription, other items, and wine. A similarly-affiliated clerk wouldn't check out the wine with the other items "because they don't go together". Needless to say, hilarity ensued as this knucklehead's manager had to put her straight. And so gingerly, it was as if she'd done nothing wrong.
"Just do the check-out, lady! I'll apply as needed!" The nerve!
"Just do the check-out, lady! I'll apply as needed!" The nerve!
If because of your religious beliefs you can't in good conscience serve alcohol to people, that's fine, but don't apply for jobs that require you to do that and especially don't refuse and then sue that your religious freedom has been violated. Will there be no end to this nonsense?
Reminds me of someone not wanting to issue marriage certificates to gay couples, even when that person's job is to issue marriage certificates. Anyone who believes their job infringes on anything personal should seek another job that doesn't.
That's a bit of a stretch. The court ruling (not even a law) occurred after the clerk was hired. She never signed up for handing out marriage certificates to same sex folks. (What has happened to our society?) If she is a valuable employee then the county should reassign her, not fire her.
An employer should be fair and consistent in it's policies. Wishy-washy bending of rules invites all sort of chaos and a fall into mediocrity. While I sympathise with both sides of the argument, I do feel that if you are employed to do a job then you put personal predilection and bias aside, just do your job. If that makes you unhappy then find a job that doesn't.
Her objection was a bit stronger than predilection, it went against the very fiber of her being (and the fiber of every western culture in recorded history.) You conclusion about object rule following causing a workplace to not fall into mediocrity is not founded. Have you been to the DMV or any government agency lately? I still disagree that a Muslim refusing to serve drinks after being hired to do the same is a just parallel to county clerk hired to process county paperwork and the paperwork violates natural law.
funny thing about working for the gub'ment. laws change. and as an "officer of the law" you need to follow the current rules. if the speed limit is raised to 70, a cop can't pull you over for doing 66 (previous limit was 65) because he feels that the speed limit should be 65.