It looks like employers are going to have to make a big deal when they ask “Is there any thing that would prevent you from performing your job duties?” and list, in painful detail, all of the duties that are even remotely possible. Then the employer can get sued for discrimination in hiring!
Muslims are demanding footbaths, five daily prayer breaks, not to have to handle pork or be around dogs, etc. Now a Jew can’t deliver Xmas trees!
Why does it never dawn on these people that there are countries in the world where they can practice their faiths unfettered – countries where, of course, Christianity is either illegal or in no way favored. You would think that they would be happier there, wouldn’t you?
Delivering xmas trees made him feel “uncomfortable”???? I was under the impression Jews are very comfortable in their own faith. Seems to me if your employer’s business requires you to deliver xmas trees you deliver them. It happens once a year and doesn’t require him to buy into the process. Until the trees are brought into a home and decorated they don’t even quality as an xmas tree. This makes as much sense as me boycotting retail stores that sell Jewish items because they make me “uncomfortable”. What a putz.
What’s your point? Or do you have one? Seems the point was that there could be plenty of other things that might actually make him uncomfortable, not a simple and harmless tradition of another mainstream religion.
As a society, we need cut the bull **** and stop catering to the whimsical complaints of idiots. Unless it’s illegal, immoral, or unethical, workers should be required to perform whatever legitimate job related tasks are assigned to them. If this Jew feels so strongly about xmas trees, it’s his problem, not his employers. Religion is personal decision and affects how you live your life, not your employers business.
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It looks like employers are going to have to make a big deal when they ask “Is there any thing that would prevent you from performing your job duties?” and list, in painful detail, all of the duties that are even remotely possible. Then the employer can get sued for discrimination in hiring!
How dumb.
Muslims are demanding footbaths, five daily prayer breaks, not to have to handle pork or be around dogs, etc. Now a Jew can’t deliver Xmas trees!
Why does it never dawn on these people that there are countries in the world where they can practice their faiths unfettered – countries where, of course, Christianity is either illegal or in no way favored. You would think that they would be happier there, wouldn’t you?
Delivering xmas trees made him feel “uncomfortable”???? I was under the impression Jews are very comfortable in their own faith. Seems to me if your employer’s business requires you to deliver xmas trees you deliver them. It happens once a year and doesn’t require him to buy into the process. Until the trees are brought into a home and decorated they don’t even quality as an xmas tree. This makes as much sense as me boycotting retail stores that sell Jewish items because they make me “uncomfortable”. What a putz.
I agree with all comment thus far. If he’s so sensitive over delivering xmas trees they should put him on the pork and ham run.
What’s your point? Or do you have one? Seems the point was that there could be plenty of other things that might actually make him uncomfortable, not a simple and harmless tradition of another mainstream religion.
As a society, we need cut the bull **** and stop catering to the whimsical complaints of idiots. Unless it’s illegal, immoral, or unethical, workers should be required to perform whatever legitimate job related tasks are assigned to them. If this Jew feels so strongly about xmas trees, it’s his problem, not his employers. Religion is personal decision and affects how you live your life, not your employers business.