Reply #17: When I lived in Utah

[FormerOstrich]

sometimes it was damn hard to find coffee or tea. However, I was never fired for bringing my own.

Personally, I see it as the same issue. I don't see how they can prohibit someone from consuming pork at their workplace (assuming that having any food items were allowed).

One of the companies I worked for in Utah was being sued for religious discrimination. One day the corporate Vice President was in town. Several of us were gathering for a meeting with the VP. The topic of the suit came up. One of the managers (a bishop Ric) carried on at length about he just didn't understand how anyone could say that. He took it a little further by saying that this division had grown so fast that they didn't even know who was Mormon and who wasn't anymore.

Another one of the managers (also a bishop Ric) realized how lame it was all sounding. With a perfect deadpan face he contributed. "Yep, we don't know who is Mormon or who isn't anymore...we just know which ones drink coffee".

Unfortunately, I was taking a big gulp of my coffee at the time. I nearly spit it across the conference room table when I started laughing so hard. Yes, I am glad they didn't fire those who drank coffee.