Originally Posted by hatari
Kroger is chain that I once thought highly of, but have lost my esteem for them over stuff like this.

I know a family who has a young adult daughter daughter with Asperger's. Pleasant, highly intelligent and capable, she got a job last year at Kroger. Requested only that she not be scheduled before noon on Sunday's so she could attend church, which she did each week. People with Asperger's tend town/need routine. Can you guess when she got scheduled? Every Sunday. If she was scheduled 16 hours for the week, 8 of them would be Sunday. After a month, she spoke to her supervisor and asked once again. She was available any other day and morning. Net 2 week schedule came out and she was scheduled only on Sundays!

If she'd had worn a burqa, she could get any day off, and extra time to pray to Mecca if requested.

She simply quit, which I suspect was the intention of the store and supervisor. Grocery stores often hire Special Needs kids or those with disabilities, and some managers don't have the compassion to work with them. The family could have dragged them to court over this one, but chose not to.


If she had only told them she needed Sunday mornings off in order to play in softball tournaments they probably would have made the arrangements. Good on her and her folks for their honesty; don't know that I could have let that go without a legal challenge. We Christians tend to avoid confrontations, often to our (short term) detriment.

The biggest problem our country has is not systemic racism, it's systemic stupidity.