Woman fired for eating BLT at work

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
and liberals are going to bat for employment at will,

Yoohoo! I'm standing right here! Hello!

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Yoohoo! I'm standing right here! Hello!

May I help you?

[KrazyHorse]

Boris, you're misreading:

He said that you're a liberal and that you are applying the "hire and fire at will" philosophy...

Which is odd, given traditional lines of debate...

[KrazyHorse]

I think you should notice that the divide is more Euro/American though LOTM

The Euros are for the employee

The Americans are for the company

Again, odd given the headscarves issue...

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Boris, you're misreading:

He said that you're a liberal and that you are applying the "hire and fire at will" philosophy...

Which is odd, given traditional lines of debate...

Oopsie.

Regardless, it's not odd for me, since I've always been pretty consistent in supporting employment at will.

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


Does Islam consider the Pig a magical animal? Traditional Judaism doesnt, AFAIK. Its banned cause God said so, without going into his motives, for the most part. Nothing magical about them at all.

Coming in contact with "the dirty animal" prevents one's entrance into Heaven, or so the belief goes. That's why the Israelis were considering having live pigs or pork products on busses to discourage suicide bombers.

[alva]

It is. For some people, wearing a headscarf is a part of their religious beliefs. Eating pork is a part of no one's religious beliefs.

So...????
This only holds water if you put (any) religion before all.
Eating pork harms no-one, therefore the compagny should shut the f*** up and let her do her job.

[Shi Huangdi]

No way would the reaction from the leftists be the same if this were a Christian owned business imposing some kind of rule.

So long as they actually did inform her of the policy, I think the company is within it's rights.

[KrazyHorse]

No way would the reaction from the leftists be the same if this were a Christian owned business imposing some kind of rule.

Yes it would be.

[Sandman]

I can't say I like the idea of religious folk being able to enforce their dietary laws and other stuff on their employees. And I suppose there could be some sort of 'right to eat freely' drafted for workers.

But

What if one employee insisted on eating raw offal in the canteen? There's no medical reason not too, for well-prepared offal, but it certainly violates my 'dietary laws'.

Unless I can think of a reason to ban enforcing dietary laws on unwilling employees (whilst still allowing the offal-eater to be disciplined) that isn't ethnocentric, the religionistas have won this round, sadly.

[Az]

No way would the reaction from the leftists be the same if this were a Christian owned business imposing some kind of rule.

like me, and Ramo, for example.



EDIT: oh, and alva, who's leftist by default (Europe)

[alva]

Yes it would be.

Indeed it would.

[alva]

What if one employee insisted on eating raw offal in the canteen?

What's an offal?
Edit: ok, googled it.

Common sence often does the trick.

[Pekka]

you have to respect the company policies. Assuming she knew it was a policy, signing an agreement or not doesn't matter. She took the job, didn't she? SO if she knew about this policy, or was told to read and learn the policy herself, then she's in the wrong.

[Shogun Gunner]

Great. Now we endorse additional institutions (companies) to control our private life.

That lady should have not eaten the BLT at work, but rather, stopped by the McDonalds drivethru every morning and purchased a bacon, sausage, scrapple biscuit. Eat it in the car, go into the building and blow "unclean breath" on every single Muslim present.

Even better if she adopts the "closing talker" conversational technique.