We have become so consumed with procedures and rules that people just seem to have lost all sense of reality.

When I heard of the gentleman who was suspended because he put a picture of Jesus Christ on the office wall I had only one thing to say. What a load of old twaddle!' Wonderful word that, and I didn't know it was still used by anyone, but apparently it is.

How a picture of Jesus Christ could be deemed offensive is beyond me. But what I find most annoying is why the management in this place simply didn't use their common sense.

Why not simply sit the fellow down and tell him to stop complaining over something that is obviously not harming anyone. What we are slowly finding, through years and years of little indiscretions like this, is employees can in an instant say and complain about almost anything.

And the management feels it has to take action because for a lot of time they don't understand if it actually is offensive or not.

Take for instance the story about the Muslim staff at a supermarket who would not scan in alcohol bottles because consuming alcohol is against their religion.

Every time a customer had some alcohol then another person had to come and scan it in. Now some might say it is great that Sainsbury's are going out of their way to accommodate the checkout operators' needs But why not simply get all the operators who don't want to serve alcohol on one till. Put a sign up stating' no alcohol on this till' or even better, ask people at the interview stage whether they want to serve alcohol or not.

Hey...if someone's going to do half my job for me, I'll claim all day long that I can't touch a bottle of Bacardi, because it is against my religion to sell the stuff. A little common sense would make all the difference.

Yet, some things are not what they are made out to be. I read another story this week about Muslim medical students not wanting to learn about sexually transmitted diseases and treating certain patients, because it conflicted with their religion.

But in reality there was little evidence of this actually taking place.

It seems our quest to highlight the ever-growing pressures of being politically correct can sometimes mean some people can tend to ignore the facts.