Why Religious Exemptions Are Bullshit

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 Ask a Manager:

An employee, “Sally,” started at our workplace about a year and a half ago …  I heard her correct someone who referred to her boyfriend as her boyfriend/partner, saying that he wasn’t her partner, he was her master, and should be referred to using his appropriate title. She compared it to gay rights, saying that if she was a man, they wouldn’t erase her relationship by referring to “Peter” as “Patricia,” and so they shouldn’t erase the D/s relationship by calling him a partner instead of a master. 

Ask a Manager’s response: it’s her own personal thing, but she has no right to drag you into it. Keep pushing back.

Also Ask a Manager:

I’m a manager who has an employee who recently (late last year) accepted a promotion that involves travel … She accepted the position knowing that this level of travel would be required.

However, she told me last week that she will no longer travel because her husband told her no and her religion tells her to obey her husband … She says it has to be accommodated because it’s her sincerely-held religion.

I also know her husband recently took away her car because “queens don’t drive.” … She can no longer attend external meetings alone because she doesn’t have transportation, which has created problems already.

Ask a Manager’s response: get a lawyer, because this is gonna be ugly.