Jobs and religion.?

Question

Have any of you every worked at a place that would not respect your religious beliefs? For emample, wouldn't give you the day off for Christmas, Easter, Yam Kippur, Kwanza, or any other day that was important to you spiritually? Athiests are welcome to answer as well, I don't know what days are important to you but I will after you answer.

Answer 1

Before becoming a minister I did have to work holidays in some jobs, but I usually got paid overtime for that day (except the military). So long as i got paid for it, I did not mind it. In the military liking it is not a choice---it's an order.

Answer 2

Every job that I've had in my life has allowed me to take off the holidays observed by my religion. However, I did work one job where it just was not possible to be off on one specific holiday (Christmas). I have since quit that job and now have one where I'm free to take off any day I want so long as I have enough PTO built up to take off the days I want. Also, at this same job, everyone is given certain major holidays off regardless of their PTO status.

Answer 3

If a place of employment is open 24/7, holidays included, then why should anyone receive preference for days off based on religion?

Everyone takes their turn working the holidays and weekends. That's just how it goes.

Answer 4

My wife worked for a Muslim Doctor. She was receptionist/clerk. Everyone in the office plays music on their cd player. My wife made the mistake of playing a Christian cd. She got fired. So did other Christians that worked there also got fired.

Answer 5

Easiest thing to do in this regard is to ask for the day off as a personal or vacation day. If you don't have any time off earned yet and it's that important to you, take it as an unpaid day. Ask for the day enough in advance that you will be sure to get it.

Answer 6

the are some jobs in the usa atheists can not get because thay are atheists that is because the church runs the usa

Answer 7

Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.

Politicians promised to liberate us from the old dead hand of bureaucracy, but they have created an evermore controlling system of social management, driven by targets and numbers. Governments committed to freedom of choice have presided over a rise in inequality and a dramatic collapse in social mobility. And abroad, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the attempt to enforce freedom has led to bloody mayhem and the rise of an authoritarian anti-democratic Islamism. This, in turn, has helped inspire terrorist attacks in Britain. In response, the Government has dismantled long-standing laws designed to protect our freedom.
The origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom.
shows how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom. This model was derived from ideas and techniques developed by nuclear strategists during the Cold War to control the behaviour of the Soviet enemy.

Mathematicians such as John Nash developed paranoid game theories whose equations required people to be seen as selfish and isolated creatures, constantly monitoring each other suspiciously – always intent on their own advantage.

This model was then developed by genetic biologists, anthropologists, radical psychiatrists and free market economists, and has come to dominate both political thinking since the Seventies and the way people think about themselves as human beings.

However, within this simplistic idea lay the seeds of new forms of control. And what people have forgotten is that there are other ideas of freedom. We are, in a trap of our own making that controls us, deprives us of meaning and causes death and chaos abroad.
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