Tuesday, September 9, 2008

UPS fires woman for 'being Muslim'

Oh, boy. Here we go again:

"TORONTO, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- A Muslim Canadian woman claims she lost her job scanning boxes at United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE:UPS) because she refused to hike up her long skirt to her knees."

Okay. So she had been working for UPS for two years only having to pull her dress up mid-calf, and all had been peachy in the garden. But you know what -- on-the-job safety is a BIG issue with the parcel industry. Take a glance at the carts they use to move large amounts of boxes around, and you can see that mid-calf won't cut it -- long dresses are too easily grabbed by the wheels.

So UPS revamped their safety rules. Suddenly, the woman's fired for her religion. Not surprisingly, her case wound up in the Canadian Human Rights system.

Honey, you should have taken it up with the union. Now you're yet another statistic in the insanity that is Muslim hypersensitivity and the further erosion of REAL rights.

Nice one.

(via Blazing Cat Fur)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

25 years with UPS and I have seen more than a few people have their clothes sucked into a conveyor belt, which is the greatest danger to long and loose clothing. She should not have been hired in the first place for that position but was probably put on becasue of "Muslim hypersensitivity".

Anonymous said...

The woman was working as a temp for two years, when she was LUCKY enough to get a full-time unionized position, she knew the dress code. Liberty Mutual Underwriters even conducted a job hazard analysis over this situation and concluded that for SAFETY REASONS, skirts should not be any longer than knee length. If the woman needs to cover her entire body, she should have put on long pants and she'd still have a very well paying job with UPS but no.....

I loved anonymous' comment at Blazing Cat Fur:

QUOTE

Anonymous said...
There's little to say about the intellectual vacancy of a belief system which holds that a rigidly enforced dress code is linked to spiritual self realization and a deeper relationship with God.

All these millennia theologians have been questing for the pathway to find God and here the answer all along has been to dress in a black sack and peer at God's creation through a narrow slit in it.

/QUOTE

E.D. Kain said...

Indeed. Unions are bad enough, now we have Human Rights Commissions in our northern neighbor's attempt to enforce diversity and tolerance.

Does nobody see the hypocrisy in all of this???

Eowyn said...

anonymous, you're absolutely right. The woman was probably a PC hire, and now she's a PC "human rights" case.

Erik, I'm thinking "hypocrisy" is an UNDERSTATEMENT. This whole trend has an evil smell to it.

KT: "All these millennia theologians have been questing for the pathway to find God and here the answer all along has been to dress in a black sack and peer at God's creation through a narrow slit in it."

Priceless.