McGowan v. The City of Eufaula

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• concluding that booking officer and jailer were not similarly situated because their jobs were very different, even though they both monitored prisoners in the jail and reported to the same individual
• holding that an inability to obtain a different shift desired for personal reasons, when the shift desired included no pay, benefit, or differences in difficulty level, was not an adverse employment action
• “noting that many of plaintiff’s allegations, such as an officer’s ‘petty criticism of her work’ were ‘of a trivial nature and do not rise to a claim of an “abusive” materially adverse work environment’”
• noting that many of plaintiff’s allegations, such as an officer’s “petty criticism of her 15 work” were “of a trivial nature and do not rise to a claim of an ‘abusive’ materially adverse work environment”
• observing that a material adverse action is one that constitutes a significant change in employment status, such as hiring, firing, failing to promote, reassignment with significantly different job responsibilities or a decision causing a significant change in benefits
• identifying the elements of a discrimination claim as “(1) the victim belongs to a protected class; (2

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