Absolutely HORRIFIC story about TSA employee abuse, intimidation, and religious bigotry.

[Lyric]

MSNBC.com: Here's a situation for all you aspiring managers: If you were the boss at a U.S. government agency and one of your employees complained that she was afraid of a co-worker's religious practices, what would you do?

Would it change your decision if the religion were Wicca, and the employee feared her co-worker because she thought she might cast a spell on her?

Here's how the Transportation Security Administration handled it:

It fired the witch.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41959553/ns/business-us_business/

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Read the whole article. I promise you, you will be infuriated by the time you get to the end. What they did to this woman is just...unbelievable.

:grr: :mad: :grr:

[LiberalAndProud]

1. Time for her to lawyer up.

Title VII violation, if ever there was one.

[RKP5637]

2. Yet another WTF moment. n/t

[truebrit71]

3. ..the even bigger issue is that these rocket-scientists are supposed to be keeping us safe...

..what a fucking joke...Seriously..."Oh Boss..she cast a spell that made my car-heater not work..."

Really? We are so fucked...

[nosmokes]

4. Get rid of the TSA and DHS.

Homeland. That messed up Orwellian term makes my ass wanna suck a lemon.Anyone who feels safer getting on a plane because these misfits are on the job is a fucking idiot.

[krabigirl]

8. + 1000

[KT2000]

5. Workplace from hell

Especially liked the part about Bagnoli and her BOYFRIEND! reprimanding the woman.
This looks like an agency out of control.

[Lyric]

6. The part where Bagnoli was given a security escort to her car

but the poor Wiccan lady was NOT, just made me crazy-mad.

It's like high school bullying times a thousand. Sick fucks.

[krabigirl]

7. OMFG.

Abolish the TSA.

[ohheckyeah]

9. I hate the TSA and I hate bullys.

I wish Smith had seriously considered this:

He had a suggestion for Smith. She should enter into a formal mediation session with Bagnoli, her accuser, through the TSA's Integrated Conflict Management System, or ICMS. The mediation “would be a good venue to dispel any misconceptions” that her co-worker had about her religious beliefs, he told her.

“He wanted me to go to ICMS and sit down with Mary and explain my religion to her,” Smith said. “I'm like, 'No.' I refused to do that. It's not up to me to teach her my religion. I mean, would I have to go down and sit with her if I was Jewish?”

No, she shouldn't have to sit down and explain her religion but I think it was a teaching opportunity missed.

[REP]

12. Mediation is not for teaching comparative religion - even the judge agreed that was way out of line

Should a Jew have teach an anti-Semite about Judaism on the job? Why is this different? It isn't.

[ohheckyeah]

14. I said she shouldn't have to,

but I think I would have been tempted to try and enlighten the stupid woman.

[REP]

15. "You just get dirty and the pig likes it"

Wrestling pigs - why it shouldn't be done.

[ohheckyeah]

16. I disagree.

Education often helps to change a person. I have people in my family who are now Democrats because I was willing to wrestle with pigs.

[Modern_Matthew]

10. TSA has enough abuse to go around for everyone, apparently. nt

[MrCoffee]

11. Why didn't she call a lawyer?

That EEOC transcript is absolutely infuriating. :banghead:

[REP]

13. Probably couldn't afford one or lack of knowledge about the process