TSA fires employee for witchcraft. 40,000 Fed Govt. employees to vote to Unionize

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Here's a situation for all you aspiring managers: If you were the boss at a U.S. government agency and one of your employees complained that she was afraid of a co-worker's religious practices, what would you do?
Would it change your decision if the religion were Wicca, and the employee feared her co-worker because she thought she might cast a spell on her?
Here's how the Transportation Security Administration handled it:
It fired the witch.
Each person's story is unique, but what happened to Carole A. Smith gives us a glimpse of the work life of the 400,000-plus Wiccans in the United States. And it sheds light on work life at the TSA, where the 40,000-plus public employees who keep bad people and bad things off of airplanes have started voting this month on whether to join a union.

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You couldn't make this sh*t up. Stories like this cause me angst on so many levels.

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It's not mentioned in the article, but I think she would have an excellent chance of winning a lawsuit against the TSA. It's not just that they terminated her, before that, her co-workers created a hostile work environment. The hostility appears to stem mainly from discrimination, the fact that she practices witchcraft.

â€œWhere did you park your broom?â€ she said one co-worker asked her. â€œWhy don't you come to work in your pointy hat?â€ She said one shift supervisor told another, â€œShe's going to put a hex on me.â€
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â€œIf I called for bag checks on the X-ray, no one would come and do them. I was treated like I was not even there sometimes,â€ she said. â€œIt was very demeaning. I was constantly walking on eggshells and checking my back.â€ She said another employee yelled at her in a baggage room, in front of other employees and a supervisor, â€œGet her the hell out of here! I can't stand to look at her!â€ A co-worker advised her to transfer to another airport...
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[video]www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3jt5ibfRzw [/video]

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