Is working at Chick-Fil-A a liability?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm very progressive and work for a very progressive organization that is usually at least 20% LGBTQ. I personally do not buy food at Chick-fil-a and complained to my kid's school when they did a CFA fundraiser. I wouldn't hold it against someone who worked for CFA. I don't discriminate in hiring based on religion. We have a few evangelical Christians and a Jehovah Witness on our staff. We make it clear in hiring that we hire and serve a very diverse group of people and if you can't work with people who hold different views, even views you may strongly disagree with than this is not the place for you. In the interviewing process, we might ask questions such as how would you respond to a student who disclosed a pregnancy? how would you respond to a student who came out to you? how would you respond to a student who couldn't participate in org activities because of religious obligations. In those answers we would be looking for respect, compassion, and a not overly directive response.

You are nuts. Kid was hired to make fries and clean bathrooms. They would have no opinion on these topics because of their employment. Those questions are also actionalble under DC Human Rights law.

I'm not saying I would ask those questions because of a person's prior employment, we ask those questions because we provide mentorship services and need to know that staff can provide appropriately neutral support whether their personal beliefs are right, left, or middle.

Consult an employment lawyer. The questions are not legal in DC.

[Anonymous]

This is a brilliant troll. Kudos!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm very progressive and work for a very progressive organization that is usually at least 20% LGBTQ. I personally do not buy food at Chick-fil-a and complained to my kid's school when they did a CFA fundraiser. I wouldn't hold it against someone who worked for CFA. I don't discriminate in hiring based on religion. We have a few evangelical Christians and a Jehovah Witness on our staff. We make it clear in hiring that we hire and serve a very diverse group of people and if you can't work with people who hold different views, even views you may strongly disagree with than this is not the place for you. In the interviewing process, we might ask questions such as how would you respond to a student who disclosed a pregnancy? how would you respond to a student who came out to you? how would you respond to a student who couldn't participate in org activities because of religious obligations. In those answers we would be looking for respect, compassion, and a not overly directive response.

You are nuts. Kid was hired to make fries and clean bathrooms. They would have no opinion on these topics because of their employment. Those questions are also actionalble under DC Human Rights law.

If someones job is to provide support to students (therapy, counseling, emotional lay counselor, etc) , then yes it is important to know how someone would respond to those situations. Similarly, a pharmacist doesn't get to impose their beliefs and decide whether or not to fill a prescriptions, be it cancer meds, birth control, morning after pill, etc---if their beliefs prevent them from doing their job properly, then they need to find another job. Similarly if your beliefs prevent you from handling pork or any other type of food, then you should not work in a restaurant or meat processing plant that handles pork or that type of food. You are entitled to your beliefs, but you are not entitled to a specific job if you refuse to do the actual job description. It's really quite simple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm very progressive and work for a very progressive organization that is usually at least 20% LGBTQ. I personally do not buy food at Chick-fil-a and complained to my kid's school when they did a CFA fundraiser. I wouldn't hold it against someone who worked for CFA. I don't discriminate in hiring based on religion. We have a few evangelical Christians and a Jehovah Witness on our staff. We make it clear in hiring that we hire and serve a very diverse group of people and if you can't work with people who hold different views, even views you may strongly disagree with than this is not the place for you. In the interviewing process, we might ask questions such as how would you respond to a student who disclosed a pregnancy? how would you respond to a student who came out to you? how would you respond to a student who couldn't participate in org activities because of religious obligations. In those answers we would be looking for respect, compassion, and a not overly directive response.

You are nuts. Kid was hired to make fries and clean bathrooms. They would have no opinion on these topics because of their employment. Those questions are also actionalble under DC Human Rights law.

I'm not saying I would ask those questions because of a person's prior employment, we ask those questions because we provide mentorship services and need to know that staff can provide appropriately neutral support whether their personal beliefs are right, left, or middle.

Gee, imagine that. You want to make sure an employee is capable of actually doing their job requirements. If their beliefs prevent this, then that's the potential employees issue, not the employer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a brilliant troll. Kudos!

This is a dumb trolling as shit ton of colleges have chik fil a in their campus.

Wait you may get bonus points working for chick fil a if applying to those schools - UVA VT UMD W&M etc.

[Anonymous]

So sad it has come to this… someone seriously asking this I mean
Can’t even eat chicken without fear of being cancelled nowadays

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t want my kid to go to a colleged that judged him for working at Chik-fil-a. Sounds like an absolute dystopia.

+100
Much like DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 16 year old just got a job at Chick-Fil-A. I know college AO’s like to see kids working at jobs now. But most admissions officers are pretty left-leaning. Will Chick-Fil-A’s reputation as ant-LBGTQ make the job a liability for my son? The job was hard to get,and I’d like him to work there.

Fact: they have the most polite well-trained workers around.

That works for me.

But Progressives typically hate that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 16 year old just got a job at Chick-Fil-A. I know college AO’s like to see kids working at jobs now. But most admissions officers are pretty left-leaning. Will Chick-Fil-A’s reputation as ant-LBGTQ make the job a liability for my son? The job was hard to get,and I’d like him to work there.

Fact: they have the most polite well-trained workers around.

That works for me.

But Progressives typically hate that.

THIS ^^

[Anonymous]

Actually, Would be seen as a strength.

[Anonymous]

Man, conservatives have the worst persecution complex I have ever encountered in my life. If 20 people reply “I'm progressive and I wouldn’t care” and one replies “I am progressive and I would care” they totally lose their sh*t about how hideously oppressed they are by the jackbooted libs.

[Anonymous]

Any kid who has the persistence to show up consistently for a fast-food job has my admiration.

[Anonymous]

Why would you put a fast food job on a resume for any kind of professional job? I worked at a Little Caesars through high school, the only time it ever came up was when I got my part time cater8ng job in college. For any post college job I put internships and relevant college experience on there. No one hiring for a chemistry lab job cared about the fact that I worked at a Little Caesars.

[Anonymous]

Who knows? My kid attends a local, progressive k-8. We were told EXPLICITLY not to bring Chik-fil-a to any event where parents provide food for students (for example, weekend play practice). These parents would 100% freak out if a teen they knew got a job at Chik-fil-A.

[Anonymous]

Setting aside whether this should be an issue or not, I'd say if the school has an on-campus CFA, it should be fine to mention. That's a LOT of schools (at least big public universities). Otherwise, maybe just say that the student worked at a fast-food restaurant -- does it really matter which one (even if CFA employees are at a higher level)?