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01/26/2015 at 12:51 • Filed to: Particularly religious coworker
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"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
01/26/2015 at 12:51 • Filed to: Particularly religious coworker | 7
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Hey folks, guess what time it is? That's right, it's time for another installment of Particularly Religious Coworker, wherein my office manager/admin lady goes a little overboard with expressing her love for the lord (and savior, who works in mysterious ways.)
As you may recall, a while back I noticed that PRC had !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! that I thought was a little...much. It's totally fine to have your beliefs but it's not quite so appropriate to be talking about blessed this, lord that when we're a non-religious tech school and we've got both current and prospective students walking around all the time.
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So the poster came down, and a conversation was had with PRC where she was told that all the church-y comments need to be toned down. Which they were, for a while, but PRC just loves the lord so much she can't help herself .
I'm generally friendly with PRC, and I'm happy to chit-chat with her about inconsequential stuff. But today in a random conversation about situations when folks have needed to go on unemployment, she mentioned that she had gotten divorced many years ago, her ex-husband was very wealthy, but she told the dude she didn't want any of his money and she'd support herself just fine. I joked, "wow, he got off easy!"
Her response was something like (I'm not quoting verbatim here), "You know my beliefs, I'm just so blessed and the lord takes care of me every day so I'm very fortunate that the lord takes care of me each and every day."
Luckily the phone rang just as she said that so I took a swig of my coffee, said, "uh that's good," and headed back to my office.
A couple hours later, I went up to the front desk to look out at the roads and see how much snow was sticking, and she answered the phone with someone who was talking about some kind of financial situation. She then said something like, "hang in there, the lord moves mountains, that's his way!"
I have no idea who she was talking to and what their beliefs are, but if that's a student talking about their financial aid, come on lady, you can't do that stuff.
Stay tuned for next time, when Particularly Religious Coworker will probably knit something with a bunch of crucifixes on it and display it in a prominent location around the school.
BrtStlnd
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01/26/2015 at 13:08 |
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She gets alimony from the Lord.... still a tax liability.
Flat Six
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01/26/2015 at 13:08 |
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I'm atheist and roll my eyes at this stuff too, but at least she is positive about it. Actually most of my coworkers are religious but not Christian (Hindu, Muslim, Mormon, Jewish, etc...) and generally agree on god existing and probably get a long better with each other than a hedonist like me.
briannutter1
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01/26/2015 at 13:13 |
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XJDano
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01/26/2015 at 13:18 |
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Faith the size of a mustard seed.
It's a little out of context the way you say she said it.
It's more about believing in yourself and keeping at the task and things will get done. By how I would interpret it.
Also maybe it's more metaphorical where problems are mountains. And making mountains out of molehills.
Everybody has problems. Some people need something to help them face their problems.
She was dumb not to split assets. Also not very Biblical to be getting a divorce in the first place. (Unless he cheated or was abusive)
Two things should not be discussed at work. Religion & Politics. Production killers right there.
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Textured Soy Protein
> Flat Six
01/26/2015 at 13:19 |
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I'm a mostly-secular jew. I'll plainly admit that overly-churchy people give me the heebie jeebies, and I tend to strongly disagree with their politics. But I'm a pretty tolerant person overall, and I'm not really one to try and say she can't believe what she wants.
I'm more looking at it with my manager hat on. We're a school, and not a religious one, so our employees shouldn't be expressing any religious views unless they're having a conversation amongst themselves and everyone in the conversation wants to be talking about religion.
Trevor Slattery, ACTOR
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01/26/2015 at 13:25 |
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She is at it again, dude? Wow. If she is doing it in her professional interactions with students, as you said, that is no bueno. If she is just doing it around fellow employees it is merely terribly annoying.
But still, I am with you...keep that to yourself.
Frank Grimes
> Flat Six
01/26/2015 at 14:10 |
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mormons are christian.
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Frank Grimes
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01/26/2015 at 14:14 |
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oh no it must be terrible to get offended about something you dont believe in. how dare someone talk about thier personal beliefs.
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> Frank Grimes
01/26/2015 at 14:20 |
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Not sure if you're being sarcastic or what, but the lady's a walking HR violation.
Rico
> Frank Grimes
01/26/2015 at 16:56 |
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Sorry Grimey but AtlasM is right, a workplace in the private or public sector is not the place to talk about religious beliefs and can get you a stern talking to by HR or even written up. She can however go work at a Jesuit school is she's so inclined and such talk wouldn't be an issue. If a student filed a complaint because they were offended the school would have no choice but to write her up.
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Rico
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01/26/2015 at 16:56 |
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This lady is buggin
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Frank Grimes
> Rico
01/27/2015 at 00:17 |
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yes because if someone is talking about their beliefs it means everyone has to believe it too and be offended by it.
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Textured Soy Protein
> Frank Grimes
01/27/2015 at 11:30 |
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No, it means that you never know how people will respond to open displays of personal religious beliefs. She works at the front desk, which means for all the people we have coming in to take tours, and all the people calling in on the phone, she's the one who talks to them. While many people, including myself, aren't necessarily offended by her, best practices for someone in her position are not to share personal religious beliefs.
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Rico
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01/28/2015 at 13:34 |
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No point in explaining it, some people just don't understand what it means to work in the public or private sector. He would be the person at the job that is getting written up by HR because he can't grasp the concept that certain things are just not kosher to talk about in the work place. I'm not an older person (being 24) however many times I have to take a step back and realize the age range of some of the people who post here and likely the lack of professional job/career experience.
Svend
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01/30/2015 at 10:44 |
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I respected peoples beliefs in whatever they choose to believe in but when the God Squad starts preaching to me I then have to wonder why they won't respect my right to believe or rather not believe in what I choose.
Xkjacob
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04/01/2015 at 18:00 |
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best bet is to not bring up serious or difficult things. People like her are rather codependent on Jesus.
With stressors that codependency manifests itselfoutside of their normal church environment.