Soldato
why on earth are you bringing religion into a racial debate? :/
Because he's obsessed with telling us about his beloved religion.
why on earth are you bringing religion into a racial debate? :/
Well, it just lost her her job, didn't it? (see my edit above to my original comment, I don't think you have yet).
And....its pretty scary - purely from a social perspective, imo.
Regardless of her needing to grow up and learn some things about other cultures, surely if her daughter will be freaked out, the last thing you are going to do is make her freak out.
You would help her learn to accept other people gruadually, not stick her in a car with someone who might scare the **** out of her.
People are scared of different things, some people are scared of spiders, some of midgets, some of heights. No different than being scared of asians really, is it?
Stupid thing to say, but if the shoe was on the other foot and she didn't want an English driver, no doubt that would be fine and the word "racism" wouldn't be mentioned.
While asking for a white driver isn't illegal, she is indirectly requesting they emply more white drivers. The taxi company did the correct thing and told the newspaper, or they could have sacked a few darkies and employed a few white people instead.
I have a simple way to stop society from condemning me for being racist - it's called not being racist.
I see what you are saying, this is a 14 yeard old child and we should be understanding but should this "turban training" be at the detriment to the mother or should it be at the detriment to some poor Indian bokes job?
If everyone had the same idea and we all asked for white drivers where would that leave all the minorities employed in taxi driving. Suerly you must see the propblem here even if she didn't do it on purpose she should have known better.
While asking for a white driver isn't illegal, she is indirectly requesting they emply more white drivers. The taxi company did the correct thing and told the newspaper, or they could have sacked a few darkies and employed a few white people instead.
fini said:my life...
This woman can't go around saying this stuff!
Anyway, I believe the sacking is fair. Discuss
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/m...ed-for-demanding-nonasian-driver-1011114.html
When is the correct thing "telling the newspapers"? The correct thing is to either agree to the customers demands or say no to the customers demands.
Of course she can say that, what's the problem?
If she doesn't want a raghead driving her daughter then that's a matter for her surely?
Interesting... Let's change the scenario... If I ordered a limo and said I'd prefer a male driver, would I lose my job?
The service being purchased isn't that clear cut. You could reasonably claim you're buying a journey from A to B plus the ability to get to the destination in a reasonable time, at a time of your choosing, in a clean car, a car of a certain size for luggage, with a courteous driver, etc. Such additional factors help distinguish a taxi from just getting the bus. It's not a crazy jump to suggest certain characteristics of the driver.
As a trivial example, our family run a business and use a local taxi service to take important packages to various locations. We deal with them so often that we may ask whether a specific driver is on-call, knowing he is aware of the process for dropping for the package correctly, who to leave it with, etc.
That aside, I agree that it's an odd parenting process - assuming there isn't some serious mitigating circumstance. It's certainly not healthy to shield a kid from people they'll encounter at school, university and in the workplace.
The customer is always right. What is the problem? Really?
I suspect you might be right. An asian asks for an asian driver (maybe on language backgrounds), and all would be OK...
That sounds just as bad. Maybe for a chauffeur, but for a taxi you make do with what you get if you don't speak the native language.
They said no to the customer's demands. Did anyone suggest that telling the newspapers was the right thing to do?
How long was your course? 4 Years? So have you only just started working for your current firm? You are very confident in yourself arent you.