Opinion ID: 694883
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Heading: Garbers' Constructive Discharge Claim

Text: 16 A constructive discharge occurs when, looking at the totality of circumstances, 'a reasonable person in [the employee's] position would have felt that he was forced to quit because of intolerable and discriminatory working conditions.'  Watson v. Nationwide Ins. Co., 823 F.2d 360, 361 (9th Cir.1987). Here, there is no evidence whatsoever of intolerable and discriminatory working conditions. 17 Garbers' argument essentially is that the Postal Service's failure to accommodate his requests for leave constitutes a constructive discharge. He argues he was constructively discharged because [n]othing was done to obtain verification of his needs or consultations with him or the union to discuss alternative solutions. [Appellant's Reply Brief, at 5]. Not accommodating Garbers' requests to attend bi-monthly Baptist Minister meetings, however, is a far cry from intolerable and discriminatory working conditions. The magistrate judge did not err in holding there was no constructive discharge.