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And then everybody clapped.
This is truly a pathetic country.
We don’t know this was in America, there are so many pathetic countries to choose from!
We don’t know this was in America,
Where else can you both fire someone on the spot and sue for religious discrimination?
Canada, if it’s day one. There’s a 3 month probation period where the requirements before you can fire someone are non-existent, though you still can’t fire someone for illegal reasons.
How do you know the person you responded to was referring to America? there are so many pathetic countries to choose from!
I saw pathetic and my brain just filled in “American”
When Nazi Germany was in power, people probably thought a lot about Germany as the default.
Godwin’s law needs to be revised for Trump after this shit’s over.
“This us truly an American country.”
Because they assumed it was a specific country based on nothing, that’s something I’ve only seen Americans do. I mean the spirit is there, don’t get me wrong.
You assumed him assuming? :D
Nobody gets a jackoff closet. But no one ever asks for that.
Earn your own office and close the door. Ez.
Idk the cook at my old work just used the changeroom as his jackoff closet. He did ask to borrow people’s smartphones.
Why need a closet when you could wank at work?
No way am I clicking that link. 😣
It’s YT, so it’s mostly safe!
It’s also an old British sketch show clip.
It’s YT, so it’s mostly safe!
This hasn’t been a valid default assumption for quite a while, unfortunately. You can absolutely link some vile things on YouTube.
i’ll be damned, prayer does work
Allah doesn’t mess about.
Lol I love it when this happens- title actually fit this time (just my app being silly btw, nothing to worry about on your end)
There was subreddit about this specifically, don’t remember the name though. Wonder if someone has made a fediverse community for it.
i love looking at old pictures of people pointing at signs and imagining them making that wojack face
I guess some prayers get answered.
Anybody who saw that happen and didn’t stop the firing absolutely deserved it.
If your company is run by someone who fires people openly in front of others, that’s a red flag.
Even my absolute worst boss, who had a horrible temper, would rarely fire someone on the floor in front of coworkers. And that man was a walking red flag who got fired after about a year in his position, when his bosses finally found out how he treated his employees.
I assume that the company mentioned here didn’t have a proper HR representative who knew and understood the law about religious discrimination.
Can confirm this.
My first job had a manager who loved “making examples out of people”. One time, he threatened to fire a girl because she didn’t organize something the way he wanted, and went on a speech about how he is to be respected and when the girl told the owner, they hired a second manager to potentially remove him.
He later went to jail for stabbing a guy at a bar, probably drunk. So he removed himself. He then became a cop. So that’s cool.
Most responsible business owners understand the cost of hiring new employees, so they want to keep productive employees for as long as possible. And if middle managers are mistreating employees, a good business owner will do something about it.
Not to say that all business owners are good. Having worked for good and bad people, I can say that leaving a business with bad ownership is always a good thing in the long run, even if it hurts in the short term.
O_O
Worked in a lab where this lady sat down to read some SOPs and within an hour said “I’m not feeling it” and quit in that moment.
Much respect for that!
I’ve done a few jobs where people didn’t turn up for their second day, but never anything like that
I used to work nights at a factory and I remember one time we watched the expected new employee walk in the door, clock in, then immediately walk back out. Never saw them again.
If you can understand a smoke break, you can understand a prayer break. It’s not that hard.
I think we shouldn’t have smoke breaks, but non-smoke breaks instead…
And if smoke breaks are allowed, have a snack break
I used to get fresh air breaks.
It was at some point, I worked at jobs that didn’t give a shit if you disappeared for 15-30 minutes every hour, as long as you got your shit done.
I recommend everyone find those jobs.
Yeah, seems to be what I have found. Small companies with a skilled workforce so far in my experience have been the best.
Absolutely! Everyone wants to knock on small office jobs. The Office TV show is was a great example. Half the time it’s people doing enough to keep the company running. The other half was dumb shit. Nobody was tracking your piss times or micromanaging how many M&Ms you ate.
But I absolutely had my ass micromanaged when I was working in a warehouse or a restaurant.
I used to lie and ask for a smoke break and go have a snack outside
You have to ask?
Back then yeah. I also had to ask for time off and often got denied.
I once got denied for time off to help a family member who was in the hospital who I was going to drive home.
I told them I’m not abandoning family and took off any way and got fired.
This was after I gave a months notice and marked my schedule unavailable.
I’ve also got fired for a similar situation but for a college final that I literally could not reschedule or miss.
Now I’m highly qualified and at a much better job. And I still, decades later, have a ton of anxiety about asking for off. And theyre like “if you need off, take off, why are you so worried about it?”
For some people, it is in fact difficult to compute said action.
Prayers are a spiritual experience and practice, whereas the only thing you get out of smoking is a medical bill. They still want the latter because it’s a physical effect they can observe.
They can work you harder when you have lung cancer or long term illness from smoking and you need their medical insurance coverage.
I know someone who got his dream job in Brazil. His plane landed and he asked his local host where he can get some halal lunch. He was told that there didn’t seem to be any halal food options in the city that’s the host knew of. Guy got on a same day flight and flew back home. This was 20 years ago.
What city would that be? In São Paulo there’s plenty of halal restaurants, in Rio there’s a couple. In other parts of the country could be more difficult.
Were those halal options operating 20 years ago? Because this is an old story, and the guy really couldn’t wait that long for lunch.
My uni has places selling halal food nearby, but they’re expensive so I just eat vegan.
dream job in Brazil
he asked his local host where he can get some halal lunch
20 years ago
Was his dream job destroying a Democratic Nation?Left the dream job? Bro, just cook at home. Damn.
Its not just cooking style, it starts with how the animal is butchered IIRC
There’s a simple way to sidestep that issue
Give up your morals?
I think they meant going vegan?
Eat a vegan diet, it’s halal
If I got my dream job and it required me to be a pescatarian, vegetarian, or vegan: my diet would change immediately.
I get liking meat but damn.
If your job asked you to eat dog would you do it?
Because thas what your asking.
Halal isn’t a preference, its a standard for how meat is killed and prepared all the way to your food to your plate.
That’s a very poor strawman analogy.
A better analogy is, if your dream job said you could no longer eat steak or chicken, would you do it? If your dream job required you to eat a vegan or vegetarian diet, would you?
OP wasn’t suggesting that the person eat non-halal meat, they were suggesting they just don’t eat meat.
Yeah i missed that, but that’s still a huge ask of people, and they have the privilege of being able to do that…
The privilege of being vegetarian or vegan would probably increase the health of our society quite a bit, as well as our environment if everyone adopted that standard.
Either way: if I’m getting my dream job out of it I’ll go full vegan gluten free hard mode yo.
I think you got the post you’re replying to completely backwards.
They’re saying in that man’s shoes, they’d adopt a diet like pescetarianism or become vegan, which would allow them to practice halal even without needing dedicated halal meat sources.
The point is not to eat meat at all. Then it’s halal anyways.
If they’re eating halal for reasons they dont seek to change (religious or otherwise) it can be extremely difficult to “cook at home” because you need to secure halal food sources, which if there aren’t even any restaurants with halal food, it may be extremely difficult to secure halal ingredients
Fish, seafood, fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, legumes like rice, wheat, beans, and lentils … all default halal, no?
Yes, plant-based foods can be halal, and in many cases, they are by default. Fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, and legumes are all naturally halal as long as they are not processed or prepared with haram substances. […] If these foods are handled, flavoured, or packaged with non-halal ingredients such as alcohol, gelatine, or animal-derived enzymes, they may no longer be considered halal.
I don’t know how reputable Halalification is, but it was high on the list of search results and the entire answer seems well-reasoned.
I have no idea. Wikipedia says
Made, produced, manufactured, processed, and stored using machinery, equipment, and/or utensils that have been cleaned according to Islamic law (shariah).
i don’t know enough about Islamic law to say whether or not are default halal. They could be. I dunno!
I think that seafood is basically the same as with Kosher… so you can only eat things from the sea that have both fins and scales. Or is it gills and scales?
I worked with a Muslim in Amsterdam who ordered vegetarian because he was pretty sure it would be Halal. That was 20 years ago, so maybe he’d have an easier time eating non-vegetarian now? I see lots of Halal signs in restaurant windows, but who knows?
No. Halal is basically Kosher for Muslims. So much so that my Muslim friends are perfectly happy getting lunch at the local kosher deli. The animals must be butchered a very specific way, and overseen by a Jewish or Muslim authority to be kosher or halal respectively.
Seafood (other than fish) may or may not be halal depending on the school of Islam. The others should be fine.
No later than 2 weeks ago a new marketing guy thought the best thing once he got his laptop was to start a thread of memes on Teams with everybody. People were already leaving left and right when I started paying attention to it. Unfortunately for him, when he sent an animation of a cartoon character doing a nazi salute I called him out on it saying that’s not ok, the HR manager was still in the thread. Dude lasted half a day on this job.
I was training a new hire. She was good, better than me in some respects.
But one day she came in and did no work, just sat there shaking… insisting she was fine.
Turns out she was tweaking, she came in high.
She was given a final warning but then she came high again and was fired.
I worked in a restaurant where a server would shoot up in the bathroom before her shift. She didn’t last long.
That’s funny, considering how many people have told me that most of the people in food service are high due to how stressful it is. Maybe heroin isn’t the drug of choice, though.
Weed. It’s easy to just hit a pen in the bathroom, and it relaxes you without making you literally incapable of doing the job. I’m sure other drugs are common in food service too, but the one I saw regularly was weed.
Coke and meth
In our case, lots and lots of alcohol. Definitely coke going around but it’s not my thing.
Just say you’re sick and go home. It isn’t that hard. Don’t try to play it off and work anyway. Not unless you’re really, really good.
Negative minutes. Kid just out of college, the CMO (a monster of a human) had cosigned and bragged about how good this person was. They didn’t show up first day, hour past, someone called and HE was upset that a car hadn’t been sent to pick him up at home and he was waiting… Ridiculous in any scenario really, but this was in a car-brained major city where all people drove themselves, up to the CEO. Not common at all to have a car service. Was let go immediately in a probation period and CMO never mentioned it again.
I worked in phones a decade ago and a new hire that I thought was cool lasted a week. I got a callback from a foreign client that was just hung up on after being slurred and insulted for not speaking fluent English by the new guy. We had call recording. It was very awkward to have to tell my boss about it and unfuck the client relationship.
