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[rivka]

[Poll #649524]

I set question #1 up as a forced choice because I suspected that, otherwise, everyone's answer would be "it depends." I'd be delighted to entertain further discussion of what it depends on, and why, in the comments section - but I also wanted people's gut reaction if they were forced to choose one or the other.

Comments

[ailbhe]

If the person says "No," and you are not willing to be the last-ditch filler-in, then you do not have the right to ask them to do it. It's a bit fuzzier when you say "specific religious holiday" because to me you're not asking the employee to do the thing you're refusing to do - if you were a Muslim asking a pagan to work on Bealtaine, when you yourself would refuse to work on Eid, then that's comparable. But just because the 40th of Eleventember is my religious festival doesn't mean it's anyone else's.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

The original survey didn't specify that the person said no, or that you were requiring them to do anything. It just asks if it's okay to ask someone to do something you wouldn't personally be willing to do. It also doesn't specify that that person is the only option you had it mind. You may well be asking them to do something you wouldn't yourself be willing to do but if they said no, you'd have other fallback options: Another person you could ask, hiring an outside contractor, whatever.