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You missed the most important one: Fire Sauce.

 scarletsquig wrote:

Same goes for men wearing tight stockings as treatment for their Deep Vein Thrombosis. And of course, basically all TV/TS/crossdresser/drag queen/Scottish as well.

Actually the Kilt is traditionally masculine clothing. PS nice original joke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilt

Wikipedia wrote:The kilt is a knee-length garment with pleats at the rear, originating in the traditional dress of men and boys in the Scottish Highlands of the 16th century. Since the 19th century it has become associated with the wider culture of Scotland in general, or with Celtic (and more specifically Gaelic) heritage even more broadly. It is most often made of woollen cloth in a tartan pattern.

 Seaward wrote:

Palindrome wrote:
Burger King have a dress code. This woman refused to obey the dress code and was fired. How is this a story?

It's a story because conservative Christians have decided it's a story.

Its a story because mainstream media thinks its ok to bash Christians. If she was a muslim no one would dare speak out.

Of course they would speak out. What are you smoking?

Americans love bashing Muslims. That's why many of us keep trying to label Obama a Muslim-- so they can bash him easier.

American media is different from British media.

 Phototoxin wrote:
Its a story because mainstream media thinks its ok to bash Christians. If she was a muslim no one would dare speak out.

It always amuses me that Christians manage to be a persecuted minority in America whenever something they don't like happens, and an unquestionable majority with the right to have the country governed the way they want whenever an argument about issues even tangentially involves their religion.

 Melissia wrote:
Of course they would speak out. What are you smoking?

Americans love bashing Muslims. That's why many of us keep trying to label Obama a Muslim-- so they can bash him easier.

American media is different from British media.

Now if she was Jewish then people would be less keen to poke fun at her.

Another point, Long skirts are a trip hazard.
From a risk assessment point of view they are a no no in any environment where you have hot surfaces and tanks of boiling fat.

Anyone who has worked in fast food can tell you that you will get filthy and anything looser than pants will attract massive quantities of debris and be a hazard in a confined work space.

 purplefood wrote:

I know they can't discriminate in the UK but AFAIK worker's rights in the US are next to non-existent...

Well as far as you know is wrong. Worker's rights in the US may be different than in the UK, but they are far from non-existent.


Also, I've worked in the kitchen at a restaurant. It's true that at a fast food place she would have had to be back in the kitchen at some point most likely, but it wouldn't be where she was spending most of her time. And if the skirt she was going to wear is anything like what the skirts I see many Pentecostal girls wearing, it would be long, but wouldn't come anywhere close to touching the ground. Obviously we haven't seen a photo of the actual skirt, but I don't think wearing a long skirt that doesn't touch the ground as a cashier at a fast food restaurant would cause enough of a safety issue to not hire someone because of their religious practices. If she was applying to be a cook, that might be a different story, but not a cashier.

A cashier is effectively in the kitchen at all times in most fast food places.

They all kind of merge into one sweaty, pustule-filled gem of working futility in motion...

Yep, a lot of have fast food places have the fryers right behind the register.

Yeah, When i worked a DQ the cashier(thankfully never me) would be the ones making the food icecream.

 Melissia wrote:
A cashier is effectively in the kitchen at all times in most fast food places.

That's true, but in sit down restaurants, servers (some of which might wear skirts depending on the restaurant) come back into the kitchen area all the time as well, and some sit down restaurants even have open kitchens like fast food places do. A lot of fast food places, Burger King included, still have a bit of a separation between kitchen areas. The kitchen is open, yes, but the cashiers often stay towards the front, near the counter and away from the ovens and fryers.

I don't think it's a big deal. She would obviously have access to the kitchen and be in the back area, but if she's not frying or cooking things herself, I don't think it would be that big of an issue. Restaurants allow pregnant women to wear maternity clothes, which are a lot looser than regular uniforms and could theoretically get caught on something, but even regular pants and shirts can get caught on something. Could the skirt get caught on something? Yes, it could. But I don't think that's a good enough reason to fire her in a case that could easily be considered religious discrimination.


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 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Yeah, When i worked a DQ the cashier(thankfully never me) would be the ones making the food icecream.

Making ice cream is totally different than cooking with fryers or hot ovens. I see even less reason why someone in a skirt couldn't prepare ice cream and thus be a cashier at a Dairy Queen.

Well I was the one in the back working the Fryers, if a ssecond person wasnt there(rarly there wasn't) the cashier would also be the frycook

 Melissia wrote:
Of course they would speak out. What are you smoking?

Americans love bashing Muslims. That's why many of us keep trying to label Obama a Muslim-- so they can bash him easier.

American media is different from British media.

Yeah the American media isn't that different from the British media, there is clearly a pro-Christian leaning in both countries. Its not huge, but its obviously there. And I say this as someone who doesn't WANT to see a bias towards Christianity, and as a person with a vehement dislike for Islam, but lets be honest here.

Quite clearly the media favours the Big C over the big I, and there are plenty of papers and such with a very obvious Christian undercurrent.

Photo is just needlessly whinging like so many Religious people do about a witch hunt that just isn't going on, nobody is "bashing" Christianity, they just rightly ask questions when people use their beliefs and as excuse to talk gak or attempt to pas clearly unconstitutional rules and regulations against people who don't wish to share their personal belief system.

Islam gets a far harder time in the media then Christianity, and I WANT it to! But even I can admit what is such an obvious truth.

I completely misunderstood the title. then i remembered that pants means something else entirely over the pond.

Can you tell me what it means over there?

 nomsheep wrote:
I completely misunderstood the title. then i remembered that pants means something else entirely over the pond.

What? You've never gone commando at work? It's quite liberating.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Can you tell me what it means over there?

It means underwear.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Can you tell me what it means over there?

Pants=underpants.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Well I was the one in the back working the Fryers, if a ssecond person wasnt there(rarly there wasn't) the cashier would also be the frycook

That doesn't mean that's what would be going on at the Burger King she was hired at. At this point that kind of thing would be speculation, but we know she was hired as a cashier and not a cook.

 Grimtuff wrote:

 nomsheep wrote:
I completely misunderstood the title. then i remembered that pants means something else entirely over the pond.

What? You've never gone commando at work? It's quite liberating.

I have considered it, but i dropped the idea after realizing I would need to start work.

Ot: she should have realized it was a safety risk, tis her fault really.

 nomsheep wrote:


Ot: she should have realized it was a safety risk, tis her fault really.

I really don't think it's as much as a safety risk as people are claiming. Obviously the person who hired her didn't think it would be an issue either.

 Hordini wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Well I was the one in the back working the Fryers, if a ssecond person wasnt there(rarly there wasn't) the cashier would also be the frycook

That doesn't mean that's what would be going on at the Burger King she was hired at. At this point that kind of thing would be speculation, but we know she was hired as a cashier and not a cook.

You can see right INTO the kitchen at most burger kings. and I have seen many cashiers run back and forth from the kitchens.

Can I wear a skirt while I work at Burger King?

 Hordini wrote:

 nomsheep wrote:


Ot: she should have realized it was a safety risk, tis her fault really.

I really don't think it's as much as a safety risk as people are claiming. Obviously the person who hired her didn't think it would be an issue either.

As I said earlier, the interviewer probably didn't know a damn about H&S.

 Hordini wrote:

 nomsheep wrote:


Ot: she should have realized it was a safety risk, tis her fault really.

I really don't think it's as much as a safety risk as people are claiming. Obviously the person who hired her didn't think it would be an issue either.

You can trip on it, others can trip on it, loose fabric can get trapped etc etc it's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 Hordini wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Well I was the one in the back working the Fryers, if a ssecond person wasnt there(rarly there wasn't) the cashier would also be the frycook

That doesn't mean that's what would be going on at the Burger King she was hired at. At this point that kind of thing would be speculation, but we know she was hired as a cashier and not a cook.

You can see right INTO the kitchen at most burger kings. and I have seen many cashiers run back and forth from the kitchens.

And again, in other restaurants servers with skirts also go back into the kitchen all the time, open or not. It doesn't matter if the kitchen is open or not. What kind of shoes she wears is going to be more important in terms of safety than whether or not she's wearing pants or a skirt that doesn't come close to touching the ground.


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 nomsheep wrote:

 Hordini wrote:

 nomsheep wrote:


Ot: she should have realized it was a safety risk, tis her fault really.

I really don't think it's as much as a safety risk as people are claiming. Obviously the person who hired her didn't think it would be an issue either.

You can trip on it, others can trip on it, loose fabric can get trapped etc etc it's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

You're not going to trip on it if it's not long enough to step on. You're assuming it's a skirt that's long enough to step on, and most Pentecostal women who wear skirts all the time don't wear skirts that long. Loose fabric can get caught on things with shirts, pants, and aprons too. Your shoelaces could come untied and you could trip that way. You could trip over your own feet. We can imagine possible accidents that can happen in a kitchen until we're blue in the face, that doesn't mean that it makes it okay for a restaurant to fire someone for a religious practice that could have easily accommodated.

I got fired for not smiling. this is nothing.