I feel bad for that woman, she was willing to do the work of other flight attendants while they did the serving instead, she wasn't making all the other attendants refuse to serve it too. I hope she can fight the suspension.
I don't feel bad for her at all. One of my teenage jobs was at a fast food joint. Working the grill was the worst station in the place. If I refused to work the grill because I didn't like touching meat, it would be perfectly sensible for my manager to discipline or even fire me. Any other outcome would be at the manager's discretion ONLY, not fodder for some mob-based internet shaming campaign.
The problem I see with that is that it still imposes extra logistics and restrictions on the airline. They have to work around her to make sure that there are enough people on each flight to serve alcohol. It works for one person, perhaps, but the precedent it sets doesn't work in greater numbers. Even with one teetotaler, they lose a versatility they'd otherwise have, and I think it's a versatility that's very reasonable for them to expect from their employees.
I am very sorry that you had a miserable work experience. I am sorry that if (I don't know if you asked or not) you asked to be moved from the station and if they told you no, that would make for a very hostile work environment. I am sorry you still carry some of that frustration and resentment with you. I hope you find peace with it.
(no I am not trying to be mean or sarcastic. Please do not take it that way. I am genuinely sorry you had to go through that.)
To tell you the truth, it was frustrating at the time, but everything was frustrating because I was a teenager and predisposed to assume that everything was personal and emotionally driven. It took me an entire year after I left that job to realize what the manager wasn't telling me: They tended to divide the genders between the grill and the cash registers, giving the men more grill time and the women more register time, because the men complained less about being burned by grease and coming home stinking of meat, and the women were generally more ingratiating to the customers at the register
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Neither of us is wrong. I wasn't arguing with you in the above comment. We just both look at the situation very differently and have different management styles.
So yeah, I am at peace with it. I'm not without sympathy for Charee's situation but neither am I willing to take her side. If she changed her job 3 years ago and her religion 1 year ago, and they conflict and she can't work it out peacefully with her workmates, she can just change one or the other again. Instead, she's lawyered up, and now devout lifelong muslims who have been peacefully trying to integrate with western society for god knows how long have a poster-child for their efforts who, from their point of view, is trying out the faith like a pair of shoes. Is that a great outcome? Will it generate a great outcome?
I'm also interested to know how she managed to get a transcript of the complaint the unidentified co-worker made that forms the basis of her lawsuit. This is probably going to be Ferguson all over again and in three months we'll get a bunch of court transcripts to argue over and cherry-pick, and the cycle will repeat itself, for all of us..
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(no I am not trying to be mean or sarcastic. Please do not take it that way. I am genuinely sorry you had to go through that.)
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I'm also interested to know how she managed to get a transcript of the complaint the unidentified co-worker made that forms the basis of her lawsuit. This is probably going to be Ferguson all over again and in three months we'll get a bunch of court transcripts to argue over and cherry-pick, and the cycle will repeat itself, for all of us..
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