Suit: Job offer pulled after religious accommodation request

[SheilaT]

31. Anyone wanting to work in the health care field,

or as a cop or a fire fighter or an airline pilot, just to name a few others, needs to understand that they will be working weekends, holidays, and all sorts of odd hours.

I think that those here who think that people who apply to work in such fields, and then should be accommodated for their Sabbath, thereby dumping a greater burden their co-workers, I think that such people have never themselves worked shift work. I have. And you take the shifts as you get them. Sometimes seniority allows you to have the hours and days off you want, sometimes you continue to work your share of the crappy shifts so long as you're employed.


There are plenty of jobs, even in health care, that don't involve working weekends or holidays, such as in an office. Even if this woman converted to her current religion last month, she either works the shifts needed, or finds another job.