It's silly as fuck. I doubt there was even much demand for it in the first place. I've known a lot of Muslims who've worked in Supermarkets and other food places who don't mind selling/serving pork or alcohol.
I have a sneaking suspicion that this has been done to feed the Islamaphobes, rather than to aid the minority of Muslim employees who want to kick up a fuss over nothing. Partly because Marks & Spencer is a Jewish company, but hasn't mentioned whether or not their Jewish employees can also refuse to sell pork products (unless I skimmed over such a comment and failed to pick it up?). At the end of the day, this isn't going to help the Muslim community at all. Firstly, because you get all the racists adding it to their shitpile of justification for burning down mosques and attacking anyone who looks Muslim in the streets, and secondly because it's going to make it harder for Muslims to find employment at M&S, or any supermarket for that matter. It's going to do British Muslims more harm than good.
If they don't want to do the job they are employed to do, they should seek employment elsewhere. I'm a vegetarian, so I wouldn't apply for a job at a butchers, because I wouldn't want to be handling meat all day as it goes against my personal beliefs. I wouldn't get a job at a butchers then ask them to accommodate me later on. That's insane. Then again, when I worked at Camden Food Co. I did request gloves for the odd shift I worked in the kitchens making the sandwiches and salads and stuff so I wouldn't have to actually touch meat with my bare hands. I would have preferred to only do the veggie stuff and leave the meat ones to my other colleagues, but that would have been taking the piss when a simple pair of gloves was all it took for me to do the job without feeling the need to wash my hands a bajillion times afterwards. lol
I have a sneaking suspicion that this has been done to feed the Islamaphobes, rather than to aid the minority of Muslim employees who want to kick up a fuss over nothing. Partly because Marks & Spencer is a Jewish company, but hasn't mentioned whether or not their Jewish employees can also refuse to sell pork products (unless I skimmed over such a comment and failed to pick it up?). At the end of the day, this isn't going to help the Muslim community at all. Firstly, because you get all the racists adding it to their shitpile of justification for burning down mosques and attacking anyone who looks Muslim in the streets, and secondly because it's going to make it harder for Muslims to find employment at M&S, or any supermarket for that matter. It's going to do British Muslims more harm than good.
If they don't want to do the job they are employed to do, they should seek employment elsewhere. I'm a vegetarian, so I wouldn't apply for a job at a butchers, because I wouldn't want to be handling meat all day as it goes against my personal beliefs. I wouldn't get a job at a butchers then ask them to accommodate me later on. That's insane. Then again, when I worked at Camden Food Co. I did request gloves for the odd shift I worked in the kitchens making the sandwiches and salads and stuff so I wouldn't have to actually touch meat with my bare hands. I would have preferred to only do the veggie stuff and leave the meat ones to my other colleagues, but that would have been taking the piss when a simple pair of gloves was all it took for me to do the job without feeling the need to wash my hands a bajillion times afterwards. lol
