scenario $1$

Your work group successfully completed a project well before the required deadline. The team leader decides to invite everyone on the team to a celebration after work on Friday. Most of the team are happy, with the exception of one person, Mandy, who is of Orthodox Jewish faith. Instead of making an issue about it$,$ Mandy does not show up to the Friday event since it is on the Sabbath. Mandy assumed the team leader would not understand her religious observance, or even worse, would not care. However, when Mandy didn$$t attend, the team concluded that she wasn$$t a team player. What steps could have prevented this misunderstanding from occurring?$$

scenario $2$

A co$-$worker who works in the accounting department of your organization recently had gender$-$affirming surgery to transition from male to female. Once she returns to work she requests to be addressed as Alondra. It is Alondra$$s first week back to work since the surgery. In the cafeteria today you overheard a few of your co$-$workers talking about Alondra$$s transition. At the end of the day, Alondra mentions to you that most of the co$-$workers have been supportive with the exception of one co$-$worker who verbalized a few remarks directly to Alondra that Alondra perceives as microaggressions. What would you recommend Alondra do$?$