If that anecdote relates to scruples at all, it would be the employer's scruples, that apparently reneged on a promise that you wouldn't have to work every Sunday. You should have told them you couldn't work any Sunday for religious reasons, and you would be covered by the same Bill of Privileges as the Seven Day Adventurists and others who are legally entitled to special treatment because they believe in a particular set of rituals.Mr.B wrote:No job is so important that it would make me compromise my scruples.O Really wrote:"Why is that a bad thing? Is it unreasonable to change ones mind? Have you never done so? And if your job is dependent on getting elected, is it unreasonable to do things likely to make that happen? How stupid would one have to be to keep quixoting lost-cause windmills when it would hurt your election changes?"Mr.B wrote:[ "...and now she's done an Obama-type turnabout......good re-election stuff."
I quit a job once because when I was hired, I was told I wouldn't have to work every Sunday; I was later told that I WILL work every Sunday if I wanted to keep the job. I brushed up on my Spanish with a good rendition of Adios!
As for political figures, they're all good at making asses out of themselves.
But a change in opinion on a given issue has nothing to do with scruples. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds."