Muslim Woman Who Refused to Remove Head Scarf at Work Deserved to Be Fired
When Hani Khan , a 20-year-old Muslim woman, was hired to work in the stockroom, the store manager said she could wear her hijab (in company colors). Its employees to adopt that look -- jeans, T-shirts, flip-flops -- while on the clock. Khan shouldn't have been hired in the first place since her attire of choice didn't fit the company's image. Unfortunately, the store manager who hired her had either not been properly trained or simply chose to ignore the company policy. Usually, I would be right there defending Khan's right to wear and practice her religion as she chooses. A district manager disagreed with that decision, and Khan was asked to remove her headscarf to comply with company policy. Its employees, from sales clerks to stockers (who are occasionally seen in the front of the...
fairy tales are true: Let's take a trip Tuesday - Chicago
Another thing to be said about Chicago weather is that people from Chicago LOVE it. And they love to complain about it. Maybe they don't know what it is really like to have more I was also very excited about the opportunity to expand my wardrobe to include more than sundresses and bikinis and flip-flops. These things might have made my experience with Chicago weather a bit more extreme than it is for most people. in Chicago. I did not have a coat. Three years ago, I found out that I was going to medical school. That said, I believe that I have acclimated well. I did not own a coat. I had not seen snow in years before I moved to the great tundra that is the Midwest (save for an isolated weekend skiing in Colorado). Any excuse to shop, eh. Oh dear....
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The Butterfly and the Bear: Butterfly, Bear, and Bugs, Oh My!
In college my friends became accustomed to having to kill “eyebrow” bugs for me. p(I don’t know their real name, my friends and I named them that and I refuse to google it and look up what their proper name is because I will want to barf when the... pMissy grew up in the country with 5 brothers so while she didn’t exactly want to adopt one of these guys as pets, she could definitely handle the sudden appearance of one of these crawlers with more finesse than I could, I would simply run from... pI know they are just as, if not more, scared of me. pI can try and reason with myself and talk myself off the ledge when confronted with a creepy crawler, but truly it doesn’t work, I quite simply freak the hell out. pThey were common in our dorm much to my distress, and they are fast and can slip into a crack in the wall. pI lose it, like screaming, squealing, climbing up on chairs and freaking out lose it. pThis phobia doesn’t really jibe with the whole independent woman vibe I am trying to......
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