Anyone ever had moral or religious conflicts with your job?

Question

Has anyone ever been asked to do something on the job that they could not agree with religiously or morally? An example might be a pharmist who disagreed with the morning after pill being told to hand it to the custmore or loose their job. I know a person who quite a job at a magizine wearhouse because the wearhouse started distrubuting Playboy and other such magazines. Another example might be that a person has trouble with work because they couldn't get off to go to church. I have been lucky and not really had to deal with such problems but I know they come up. I just wondered what people have faced and how you've handled them.

Answer 1

Yes.

I am very pro-labor and want working people to control more of their lives. I quit a job at a law firm when one of the lawyers took a case where she was representing a company that was taking a union to court and trying to chase the union out of the factory.

A friend of mine in a similar situation kept his job and sent secret information to the union. That is illegal, and I think I do more good OUT of jail than IN. He wasn't caught, but he could have been.

I was unemployed for several months after that. Since the American unemployment payment system is terrible, and you can't get help if you quit, it was a difficult time.

But my conscience was clear.

Answer 2

in case you're gonna make claims such with the aid of fact those which you made a minimum of get your information marvelous. First flaw on your fact is that non believers or the likes there of have not have been given any know-how of the bible or the religion of Christianity which in fact is a faux premise being as many Atheists, Agnostics, FreeThinkers, Humanists, and truly some others have been as quickly as Christians and have study the bible conceal to conceal. 2d flaw on your fact is that in case you're gonna say that for the duration of regards to the bible then why no longer throw in different religious texts such with the aid of fact the Hindus scriptures aka The Bhagavad Gitas, or how with regard to the Qu'ran aka the Islamic scriptures or the different religious texts or how with regard to the Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey, or the different books of the variety. Me for my area I want to study some thing by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche or another form of philosophical thinking.

Answer 3

It's all very simple -- just find a different job. If you are a pharmacist, and you object morally to dispensing certain medications -- it doesn't matter if you're a Christian and the script is for emergency contraception, or a Scientologist and the script is for antidepressants -- it is your job to give the patient the medication that their doctor prescribes. They have a right to be able to walk into your pharmacy, and get their prescription filled. And this isn't always a simple matter of going to a different pharmacy -- often their insurance company will only cover certain pharmacies, so they don't always have a choice. They have to come to you, and you should be willing to provide. If you have a problem with that, then find a different job. One final point -- if they are coming to you for emergency contraception, it is possible that they are a victim of rape. Do you really want to victimize them twice, just to stay on your moral High Horse? Is that what Jesus would do?

Answer 4

Yes, I must confess that I refused to work in a Christian radio station on Sundays... so I didn't get the job! (that was many years ago when I was a fundamentalist Bible believer!) After that I wised up and found a loophole in the Scriptures. It was too late for that job, but I learned how to find loopholes in the Bible...! Even Jesus said that the Sabbath was made for man not man for the Sabbath... so hey... I got it!!!

Answer 5

I've had one job, my first out of college, that was related to the defense industry. I came to have philosophical differences with the work that I was doing because, in the end, the fruits of my labor were used to make war, and I couldn't be a contributor to that. So I moved on to another job.

Answer 6

Several times. I am a Latter-Day Saint. When I was in the army, my direct supervisor lectured me constantly and brought anti-Mormon literature for me almost everyday. I don't know why my religion frightened him so much--he wasn't exactly a stellar specimen of morality, himself.

I was fired once after my boss at another job found out I was LDS. She erased my schedule and told me that she didn't need me anymore after grilling me over my religion one afteroon. She was baptist, and I guess she was offended by me.

Answer 7

Hmmm. I had a job as a teenager in a candy shop. The owner said to pick up the pieces that hit the floor and just put them back in the candy bins.

Forget religion... that's just plain yucky!

Answer 8

Our moral compass is asked to bend and get out of the way completely at times. It does not matter where we are when asked it is how we respond to it that matters.

“You have got to care about everything.” Jon Huntsman

At the root of this quote from Huntsman is the absolute knowledge that when we do an act that compromises our moral compass it will do harm to others, every time.

P.S. this law is written in our hearts according to the bible so, you do not have to be a church going member or even spiritual to know this, just human.

Answer 9

Well, I work in an Indian organisation, and during Hindu festivals the office folks conduct "pujas" in which they burn agarbathi, and chant all kinds of strange mantras. I'm a Christian (Catholic) and am against attending any service of non Christians. So I excuse myself and do not partake of these pujas.
Everyone has a choice!

Answer 10

I'm a nurse and an atheist, when we deliver babies who die in the womb we can baptize them. It feels very creepy. But I guess if it would make the mother feel better to know that her baby is "with God now..." then I can't refuse. But I let my God believing co-worker do it.