An Indian couple was awarded $200k in a court case when a college told them to stop using the microwave ovens to heat their curry sauce. Other students/employees complained about the smell and the mess.
I expect that in very short order, large numbers of students and employees will be firing up their George Foreman grills and filling the air with the sweet smells of barbecuing beef.
It is hard to imagine that any judge could rule AGAINST beef-eaters for cooking the traditional foods of their peoples even if it makes other employees retch.
For the record, I once worked in a factory that forbid the cooking or reheating bacon in the break-rooms. I wonder why.
Long ago and far away I was working a building project and random hands would come into the break areas and microwave their wet gloves to dry them. There was no way I would have used them for food. Nasty!
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A lot of "immigrants" both legal and otherwise are simply not civilized. They expect US to adapt to them and their wishes. And get mad when expected to learn and practice our customs. Including the courtesy of not fouling the air with odors they may like but most people gag on. And the court in this case GOT IT WRONG..
ReplyDeleteHuge problem correctly identified by Dan!
DeleteThey leave there to come here, then try to make here like there. If you liked it there so much why didn't you stay? We like here the way it is, we don't want to live there. If you want to live here, you have to live here, you can't bring there, here, or it becomes there.
Like Californians
DeleteIt is possible that the Indian couple intended to file a suit BEFORE they antagonized and escalated.
DeleteEasy money.
Huh. I thought fish was the major microwave matter.
ReplyDeleteMy late roomie tried to dry his boots in our conventional oven. It did not end well as he failed to set a timer.
I've seen similar complaints where I work.
ReplyDeleteThe sad thing is that the person complaining most about someone else microwaving smelly food does it themselves.
And it's part of a pattern - the same person talks loud on the phone but complains when others do it...
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At what point does one persons rights, get legal protection to trample somone elses?
ReplyDeleteThe bacon-issue is a good example. I can't reheat my 4th of July leftovers b/c the beans have bacon in it?
I'm sorry, but Hassan on 3rd shift having a different religion than mine stops at the break room nuker.
No, really, if as a Christian I am told I HAVE to be tolerant and allow the satanists to put up a statue on December 21st means all the other religious exemptions get to go fuck themselves. I will not have halal conveyor belts at my checkout. I will find the leakiest package of bacon I can, deliberately cut holes in the packaging and smear it all over every inch of that belt if you try to install one. I don't avoid parking in the door-dashers spots, either. This is cucking, it isn't tolerance.
The smell of microwave popcorn and some excessively-sized lady's substitute of perfume for a bath both make me ill at work. Can't say anything about either though.
ReplyDeleteI wipe my bacon greased gloves on the walmart shopping cart handles every trip
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