Fired For Refusing Poppies?

[mushroom25]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-46078099

that's how the headline reads - but it's not how it was reported on TV last night, nor indeed is it said in the text of the article. The police are investigating not the refusal, but threats made after the event. and the driver wasn't dismissed for refusing to transport poppies, but for falsifying his job card.

all very strange, eh?

[Mamyalynne]

KMR have dealt with this correctly.

I have had occasion to dismiss taxi drivers for not doing their job up to standard, there are lousy workers in all trades.

[emmie]

if the driver was a Muslim, he was doing great disservice to all the Commonwealth and others who perished alongside the British.

[THECORBYLOON]

Is there ANY evidence the driver is a Muslim?

[jackthehat]

Apparently not, TCL.....but there seems to be a lot of nose-tapping and eyebrow waggling going on....

[Zacs-Master]

Ah, infallible logic, Tora.

[Zacs-Master]

Oh, right. Case proven then.

[Togo]

@ 12.06
Just for the record. I did not mention or allude to any "religious" connotation. The 12.06 post was the first to do so. My use of the word "persuasion" could have suggested perhaps one of our gender confused drivers, or a fully paid up member of a well known para military organisation, in fact any other group that has an axe to grind with our armed forces veterans. Perhaps a student union spokesman earning a bit of pin money. However I note that the person is now protected by the data protection act according to the taxi firm statement. Shame that. Bet if the driver had been named say......Robinson the name would be out ,and the twittersphere would be lit up with strongly worded messages.

[emmie]

why are they bigoted? surely that is the whole point of debate, everyone gets a say.

[Mamyalynne]

Welcome to Assumption Bank.


Taxi driver , rubbish at his job causes mass hysteria.

[THECORBYLOON]

Certain folk have jumped to the conclusion the taxi driver is a Muslim. That us based on no evidence at all and that is why I am saying the posts are bigoted.

[anneasquith]

News topic. Make your own story.

[jackthehat]

Of course they are TCL, but letting them remain will enable other readers to make their own assumptions about the people who have posted them....

[Zacs-Master]

Or firm up already held ones.

[anotheoldgit]

/// KMR Cars does not tolerate bias on the grounds of Race, Religion, Beliefs, Sex, Gender, Disability or other. ///

[jackthehat]

Yes, AOG.....We know what you have inferred from that.
It doesn't mean that the rest of us (well, not all...) have done the same.

[THECORBYLOON]

You posted that previously, ANOTHEOLDGIT.

[Zacs-Master]

And I asked ‘which one was it?’ Got no answer tho.