Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Not to put too fine a point on it What A Load Of Bollocks! Terms of Employment surely are quite clear, if employed at any store as a sales assistant or cashier you are being paid to sell that stores merchandise. Personal,Religious reasons for not doing so should be immaterial, employees career choice. This country is fxxxed! Rant over!

Although he is very needed, I didn't know Manuel was a Rasta.

difficult being a bald rastaman :-)

sticky - in answer to your point, quite so, but i think i raised questions similarly in my post, but i can't find it now .... aha; 34476

If she was worried about helping down the pathway to sin by selling alcohol then she should not work for a company that sells it and helps people down.....

Tend to agree with Chris, its getting really silly.

eg, what happens if you have a muslim vegetarian who has been radicalised and has a physical disability, do they just do nothing all day??????????????

By the way I kid you not when with Kirklees council we had a similar case.......no joking.

Total nightmare.

Maybe she should avoid mouthwash that has alcohol, wine gums that have gum from pork, mayonnaise as it contains alcohol in the guise of vinegar, hospitals that use alcohol to wipe you arm for injections etc. The by-products of alcohol are endless.

It is a lot of fuss about nothing.vA Muslims m friend of mine won't do the lottery. I told him a method to make it Halal. He gets a ticket and if it wins then he gives me the ticket and the winnings.

Do you like the BNP Christmas card?

The BNP are a joke...I suspect they don't even take themselves seriously.

Little Englanders discussing... little England

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/colinfreeman/100251728/the-ms-alcohol-row-what-happened-to-the-customer-always-being-right/

Why not have special rules for people who believe in other silly thing apart from benevolent extra terrestrial beings like god. Why don't we put believers in fairies on the tills who could refuse to serve people who don't believe in fairies.

Muslims use alcohol every day.

Go to any hospital, hands, cuts, wounds are sanitised using alcohol.


It's not the application of alcohol, it's the drinking of it that is against their belief's.

Hays,

I wouldn't be surprised if you believed in fairies.

You believe the fairy tales from tory HQ and out of the mouths of Cameron and Osborne.

You just have a different level of gullibility.

Check out and examine your own beliefs, you may find some of them barmier than some of those which are accepted by those who believe in a god and the rules of "their chosen religion".

PS.

Not believing in a "god" or "religion" allows some to have a very flexible morality.

The flexibility often allowing benefit or reward to self and expense of others and often very flexible. (Psychopathic personalities comes to mind.)

fawlty - you would do well to read and learn from your own writings instead of preaching at everyone else

If this lady Muslim was an unprotected employee, I think she needs dismissing for........

Hmmm? Well, what....?

The point is, if she worked on the till in their food department, then she must have known this was going to happen some time other and that when it did, the customer was highly likely to dump ALL their shopping on the till conveyor and tell M&S to stick it (back on the shelves, obviously). And when this happened, said till lady was going to have a fair bit of explaining to do to her managers.

It all sounds a bit conspiratorial to me.

Think about it....

Manuel,

Pray, what am I preaching?

I didn't realise that observations were no longer permissible to your Lordship.


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Besides, I thought you would be cooking your own goose for Xmas.

Shame to not to use your talent.

Fred

You say:

Not believing in a "god" or "religion" allows some to have a very flexible morality.

The flexibility often allowing benefit or reward to self and expense of others and often very flexible. (Psychopathic personalities comes to mind.)

You might be interested to do a 'Google' for the 'Atheist Church', which apparently is coming on in leaps and bounds in terms of its popularity because it removes anything to do with God/Religion from the church's activities.

eg: http://news.sky.com/story/1185876/church-expecting-festive-flock-of-atheists

Exec.

It doesn't add up to froth on Manuel's beer.

Some s.bs are trying to escalate a trivial act to the size of a catastrophe, which will the Raj down.

Dafter than plebgate.