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In reply to the discussion: Muslim staff can discriminate based on their religious beliefs. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)If a person can't sell the wares in the store, they can't be effective in their job.
This fake insistence that they not "touch" the product is bullshit. Their paychecks have "touched" the products they hate--those paychecks are the result of pork and alcohol sales.
For the literal amongst them, they can wear a glove and not "touch" the stuff. But to stop the line and call someone over everytime a damn BRIT buys booze or beer? I'm not going to make any "two of the three major food groups" jokes, but I lived in UK and I never drank more alcohol nor ate more sausages in my life than when I lived there. It's a national pastime to enjoy those products...that's gonna disrupt every third sale in the store. It's just fundy bullshit.
I've lived in the ME and had no problem purchasing "non halal" items sold to me by Muslims. Anyone using religious excuses to avoid doing their jobs working retail in a store that sells a wide variety of stuff needs to go work for the halal butcher -- who will probably pay them under the table, half what they get at MandS. I have zero sympathy for these cashiers, I think they are poseurs. They need to get with the program, and either deal with the job requirement or quit, IMO. And like I said, MandS needs to get correct with their job requirements, and not provide "unreasonable" accommodations of that sort.