A "just kidding" headline where the first part is more asinine than the second part?

but there it is.

can I just get the "religion of peace^tm" reference out of the way now?

The Saudi Arabia national...

Oh, that makes sense.

"In the UK there's equal opportunities that should protect me and my beliefs."

Move there?

I feel this merging with the other ATTY flame thread

/DNRTFA

Lynoitus: "In the UK there's equal opportunities that should protect me and my beliefs."

Move there?

Actually he's already there. I'm an idiot.

Move somewhere else?

What I don't understand is why someone hasn't sued because "the knowledge that alcohol exists" offends their religion.

Questions:

1) Did he specifically make not handling alcohol a condition of his employment?
2) Was he asked to move alcohol specifically because he was a muslim and it would make him uncomfortable?
3) Is moving alcohol not typically a part of the job that he was hired to?
4) Did he request a transfer to a position that would not require moving alcohol, was such a position otherwise available, and was he denied such a transfer without grounds?

If the answer to any of these is 'yes', then he has a point. If the answer to all of them is 'no', then he needs to STFU and GBTW or find a new job.

Case Closed.

Sorry, Mohammed Ahmed, do your jeorb or PISS OFF.

/KTHXBY

Since when is *handling* alcohol against Muslim beliefs? AFAIK, they are forbidden to drink, but I see no reason he can't move cases from point A to point B.

In the UK there's equal opportunities that should protect me and my beliefs.

There are.

This bullshiat does not fit under that umbrella.

Sorry.

just fire the managers that gave him shiat for it. any manager that causes a lawsuit is an asshat.

But if a pharmacist refuses to do his/her job because of religious beliefs......Oh, Christian beliefs, that's different, never mind

Fritriac: Sorry, Mohammed Ahmed, do your jeorb or PISS OFF.

/KTHXBY

Was gonna say something along those lines, but this is much more appropriate

/Coach Z approves

Glass parking lot.


wait..what?

The only muzzies I've seen in Lichfield were in the City Balti.

Hell, Tesco, I'll do it if he won't. I'll PERSONALLY handle that alcohol all day, even on my break if I have to.

If they asked him to move alcohol, aren't they exactly NOT discriminating on the basis of religion?

"Make him move that booze."
"But he's Muslim."
"Oh. Get someone else to do it then."
That would be treating him differently on the basis of religion, which is discrimination.

Winston Smith '84: But if a pharmacist refuses to do his/her job because of religious beliefs......Oh, Christian beliefs, that's different, never mind

If you own the pharmacy and you choose not to sell certain pills fine. If you work for a chain and you try not to, STFU and GBTW its your job.

I wonder what he'll do if he's asked to move a pallet of bacon with a forklift.

unyon: Questions:

1) Did he specifically make not handling alcohol a condition of his employment?
2) Was he asked to move alcohol specifically because he was a muslim and it would make him uncomfortable?
3) Is moving alcohol not typically a part of the job that he was hired to?
4) Did he request a transfer to a position that would not require moving alcohol, was such a position otherwise available, and was he denied such a transfer without grounds?

If the answer to any of these is 'yes', then he has a point. If the answer to all of them is 'no', then he needs to STFU and GBTW or find a new job.

Case Closed.

the answer to 2. was yes, according to the article.

FTA: "Tesco claimed Mr Ahmed was made aware at his induction that he would be handling alcohol, and that every effort was made to find him an alternative role in the warehouse. But the claimant, of Upper Dale Road, Normanton, claims he was victimised by managers because of his stance."

fark the whiny prick.

So at what point during the fermentation of sugars does your god say you can no longer even touch the box? Are you allowed to move a box of cough medicine? What about vanilla extract?

Fark all that shiat. It is your belief. If this is an issue, do what is right by your beliefs and find another job. Unless you have no nobility or honor. Then sue. Loser.

Point one - Tesco sells achohol

Point two - everybody knows it

Point three - stockboys move stock

Point three - you take a job as a stockboy in place that sells alcohol, there's a reasonable assumption that at some time, you will eventually come into contact with 100% of the store's inventory.

Point four - STFU and GBTW

What farked-up religion forbids moving boxes of alcohol?

eggrolls: Point one - Tesco sells achohol

Point two - everybody knows it

Point three - stockboys move stock

Point three - you take a job as a stockboy in place that sells alcohol, there's a reasonable assumption that at some time, you will eventually come into contact with 100% of the store's inventory.

Point four - STFU and GBTW

Learn to count?

Winston Smith '84: But if a pharmacist refuses to do his/her job because of religious beliefs......Oh, Christian beliefs, that's different, never mind

no, that's equally as obnoxious. if you can't or won't do the job, find another one.

I don't use tampons, but that doesn't mean I can't handle them.
Get a job, farkwad.

See, immigrants can overcome cultural differences. Except that he seems to be becoming American, rather than British.

headstone: I don't use tampons, but that doesn't mean I can't handle them.
Get a job, farkwad.

seriously. sounds like needs to invest in a dustbuster to clean sand out of his panties.

Well, I guess Tesco should maybe rethink their hiring practices. I mean really, why would you hire a Muslim anyway? Did England run out of Polish immigrants already?

What a wonderful religion.

Down with Cutty Sark!!!

If you want to observe third world practices, stay in the third world. The rest of will keep our alcohol, porn, etc. and you can fark off.

Religion of the Perpetually Outraged^tm

jimpoz: That would be treating him differently on the basis of religion, which is discrimination.

Treating differently is not the same as putting somebody at a disadvantage.

I'm a pretty tolerant person. I don't give a damn what someone worships, whether it's Allah, or nothing. But I can't stand people who get all unhappy when their job requires them to do something 'against their religion'.

I think the responsibility here is for such people to find a job that is cool with their personal rules on the world - NOT to expect jobs to conform to them. If they can't fulfill all of the duties, not for some physical reason but because they won't, they shouldn't have taken that job. This applies to muslims stockboys getting weird about alcohol, or christians pharmacists denying sales of birth control, or even some jewish kid working as a busboy who won't clean up a pork dish.

All of you - find something you can do that won't force your personal beliefs onto other people.

How about the stupid asshat adapt to the values of the country where he immigrated.

Muslim immigrants seem to be more trouble than their worth. Stick to asians, south americans or (non-muslim) africans.

fark him; this kind of bullshiat just opens the door for more. Years ago, I was office manager for a carpet sales/cleaning business. One of the salesmen blew off 2 potentially good clients because his religious convictions prevented him from stepping foot into a bar or movie theatre. He was told to GTFO for not doing what he was hired to do. As it should be.

Lynoitus: Lynoitus: "In the UK there's equal opportunities that should protect me and my beliefs."

Move there?

Actually he's already there. I'm an idiot.

Move somewhere else?

Or find another job.

cool. sounds like he's assimilating just fine.

While being a step in the right direction (the lack of Jihad), the lawsuit itself is not exactly something we should be celebrating.

The dude should get back to work and shut his pie hole.

The Flexecutioner: the answer to 2. was yes, according to the article.

FTA: "Tesco claimed Mr Ahmed was made aware at his induction that he would be handling alcohol, and that every effort was made to find him an alternative role in the warehouse. But the claimant, of Upper Dale Road, Normanton, claims he was victimised by managers because of his stance."

Key word there...'claims'.
He can 'claim' anything he wants. Doesn't make it true.

pxlboy: Winston Smith '84: But if a pharmacist refuses to do his/her job because of religious beliefs......Oh, Christian beliefs, that's different, never mind

no, that's equally as obnoxious. if you can't or won't do the job, find another one.

So, how many of the pharmacists simply quit their job and found another one? Oh, they went to the mainstream media and cried about the store owners not allowing them to refuse to dispense the medications or confiscate the prescription.

Personally, I think the pharmacists and the Tesco employee should be fired. I want to see all of the farkers who defended the pharmacist defend the Muslim Tesco employee. I doubt if that will happen. I just wish everyone would leave their offendable religious beliefs at the door when they report to work or go somewhere else. Farkin persecuted religious nutjobs (christian, jewish, muslim, etc.)sure do whine. Maybe they should work for Fox news as mouthpieces (er, I mean news reporters) then they can whine all they want.

unyon Quote 2008-09-27 06:49:01 PM
Questions:

1) Did he specifically make not handling alcohol a condition of his employment?
2) Was he asked to move alcohol specifically because he was a muslim and it would make him uncomfortable?
3) Is moving alcohol not typically a part of the job that he was hired to?
4) Did he request a transfer to a position that would not require moving alcohol, was such a position otherwise available, and was he denied such a transfer without grounds?

If the answer to any of these is 'yes', then he has a point. If the answer to all of them is 'no', then he needs to STFU and GBTW or find a new job.

Case Closed.

THIS

Ultimately what needs to happen more often is that judges just throw these cases out and in those cases that are completely ridiculous, the presenting attorney needs to be fined for wasting the courts time and the tax payers money.

I'm thinking about taking a job at McDonalds or something, then after a week telling them I've converted to a religion that forbids me to be paid less than $40 an hour.

Winston Smith '84: pxlboy: Winston Smith '84: But if a pharmacist refuses to do his/her job because of religious beliefs......Oh, Christian beliefs, that's different, never mind

no, that's equally as obnoxious. if you can't or won't do the job, find another one.

So, how many of the pharmacists simply quit their job and found another one? Oh, they went to the mainstream media and cried about the store owners not allowing them to refuse to dispense the medications or confiscate the prescription.

Personally, I think the pharmacists and the Tesco employee should be fired. I want to see all of the farkers who defended the pharmacist defend the Muslim Tesco employee. I doubt if that will happen. I just wish everyone would leave their offendable religious beliefs at the door when they report to work or go somewhere else. Farkin persecuted religious nutjobs (christian, jewish, muslim, etc.)sure do whine. Maybe they should work for Fox news as mouthpieces (er, I mean news reporters) then they can whine all they want.

What if that pharmacist owns the business? If you own a business do you get to decide whether to carry a product or not? To me this case has nothing to do with the pharmacy issue because the pharmacists who pull that stuff ususally own their own pharmacy while this guy is a grunt who doesn't want to move some pallets.

get a brain, koran.

Winston Smith '84: Oh, they went to the mainstream media and cried about the store owners not allowing them to refuse to dispense the medications or confiscate the prescription.

Well they did figure out that television was more powerful than prayer.

The Flexicutioner

Oh, he said so. That makes all the difference in the world. I believe him. Don't you?