Just wondering how many people would make a show of eating pork in front of Jewish clients?
Or scheduling meetings on Saturday if working with Seventh Day Adventists?
It is sheer stupidity to be deliberately offensive and shameful to be ignorantly offensive to clients and business colleagues and associates.
Don’t think for a moment I’m enamored by Islamic culture because I’m not, but I see a lot of Big Talkers on this thread that say that they would fall on their sword and risk their jobs over petty rude behavior when I think that the reality is they wouldn’t have the nerve to follow thru on their threats.
This is true. And yet there should no reason for an official manual or book of instructions. Like in most other matters this should be left to the better discretion of society.
If the person next to me on the flight leaving DFW objects to me eating the pulled pork sandwich I got Dickeys in Terminal C, they are free to find another seat, since I fully intend to eat my lunch instead of airline boxes
I do work around clients beliefs, if I know them. However, I won't project what they might be. If they don't bring it up or its not obvious, standard rules apply.
Finally I had great pork ribs in Israel one night for dinner, and all of my Israeli colleagues had them too. Stereotyping is often an epic fail