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Metro Bus

Last September, Jones filed a complaint against D.C.’s Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) alleging that even though she was qualified for the driver position, she wasn’t hired because of religious discrimination, a WMATA spokesman told USA Today.

When Jones asked permission to wear a skirt due to her Apostolic Pentecostal faith, they axed her application.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Jones and the agency had settled, and that she would be paid more than $47,000. In addition, WMATA will take a closer look at more ways to accommodate employees on a case-by-case basis, the spokesman said.

Now, Jones can reapply for the driver position, and if she is hired she’d have to request to be exempt from the uniform policy.

Cases like these should be a wake up call to employers as a whole, said Holly Hollman, a lawyer with the Baptist Joint Committee. “It reminds us that in religion ‘one-size-fit-all’ rules don’t necessarily work,” she told USA Today.

Or, I'm going to do whatever the hell I want. If I don't get my way I'll just sue you. Or my Daddy will handle it 'cause I've accomplished nothing, or, my backyard is bigger than your backyard. Sound familiar? Oh wait...I forgot the first step in this equation. Always remember to start with discrediting the person. The victim always wins. In the short term that is.