So does anyone else work for religous people? Not necessarily a religious company but just people who are religious? I work for a plant company. I'm a plant broker, I bring plants into the country, so not a religious company to say the least... BUT my immediate supervisor/boss is a youth pastor and he hires a lot of the kids (part timers) that do bring a religious aspect to this company... one of them keeps a bible on his desk, others have scriptures nicely writte on post its and while none of them try to impose their religion on me or anyone here (that I know of) I just find it inappropriate and someone annoying... I swear one of them was praying for my salvation lol.... One other major thing is the CEO of the company seems to always bring up either heaven or god when ever he has to present/talk about something in meetings or in company wide emails...People just can't seem to keep religion out of shit that has nothing to do with it. smh...

I don't want to bring it up to anyone here cuase there are cases where people have lost their jobs and im not trying to do that... Not that it will definitely happen, but you never know.. could hurt my opportunity to grow with this company or worse, or nothing at all could happen...  despite the nonsense I mentioned above, its not a bad job and it's a job in my field...

Just wondering if anyone else is going through this like I am...

I work in a university Religion department surrounded by Anglicans with exception to two Mormons, one Catholic and a Moonie.

It doesn't really bother me since I'm used to hearing pretty odd things, occasionally the Moonie or one of the Mormons will rub me up the wrong way when they start preaching against "evil liberals", "Femenaziism" or "the gay agenda" but considering the environment and the subject we're all involved in it's something they're perfectly entitled to do.

I wish I could offer more helpful suggestions but no matter how crazy they may seem to be, just try to remember that they probably actually mean well. They're not ISIS and they think bringing Jesus wherever they go will make everyone happier in the long haul.

It will annoy you, but so long as you can keep in mind they do mean well they won't piss you off so much. I like to think of them a bit like children, they'll run up to you waving some picture they just drew that they're ever so proud of but is really shit. You don't tell them it's shit right? You just smile and nod.

Worked with a fanatic who always used to put pamphlets up on the corkboards and at everyone's places in the staff cafeteria until one of his managers grew tired of receiving complaints and told him to stop.

Didn't stop him trying to push his beliefs on people, though.

Last I heard he had been removed from his job in Sydney as a nurse for always pushing his beliefs onto patients and is now working in a retirement home.

(July 13, 2015 at 3:34 pm)Metis Wrote: I work in a university Religion department surrounded by Anglicans with exception to two Mormons, one Catholic and a Moonie.

It doesn't really bother me since I'm used to hearing pretty odd things, occasionally the Moonie or one of the Mormons will rub me up the wrong way when they start preaching against "evil liberals", "Femenaziism" or "the gay agenda" but considering the environment and the subject we're all involved in it's something they're perfectly entitled to do.

I wish I could offer more helpful suggestions but no matter how crazy they may seem to be, just try to remember that they probably actually mean well. They're not ISIS and they think bringing Jesus wherever they go will make everyone happier in the long haul.

It will annoy you, but so long as you can keep in mind they do mean well they won't piss you off so much. I like to think of them a bit like children, they'll run up to you waving some picture they just drew that they're ever so proud of but is really shit. You don't tell them it's shit right? You just smile and nod.

Thats not a terrible way of looking at it here at work...

question, whats a moonie?

(July 13, 2015 at 3:48 pm)QuarkDriven Wrote: question, whats a moonie?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonie_(nickname)

(July 13, 2015 at 3:48 pm)Beccs Wrote: Worked with a fanatic who always used to put pamphlets up on the corkboards and at everyone's places in the staff cafeteria until one of his managers grew tired of receiving complaints and told him to stop.

Didn't stop him trying to push his beliefs on people, though.

Last I heard he had been removed from his job in Sydney as a nurse for always pushing his beliefs onto patients and is now working in a retirement home.

A retirement home is the best place for him anyway.  Pushy religious types love to prey on the old and infirm.  Nothing like a deathbed for a quick and easy conversion.

(July 13, 2015 at 3:57 pm)Crossless1 Wrote:

(July 13, 2015 at 3:48 pm)Beccs Wrote: Worked with a fanatic who always used to put pamphlets up on the corkboards and at everyone's places in the staff cafeteria until one of his managers grew tired of receiving complaints and told him to stop.

Didn't stop him trying to push his beliefs on people, though.

Last I heard he had been removed from his job in Sydney as a nurse for always pushing his beliefs onto patients and is now working in a retirement home.

A retirement home is the best place for him anyway.  Pushy religious types love to prey on the old and infirm.  Nothing like a deathbed for a quick and easy conversion.

Sad, but true.

Quote: they do mean well

That phrase needs a comma.

they do mean, well

(July 13, 2015 at 3:48 pm)QuarkDriven Wrote: Thats not a terrible way of looking at it here at work...

question, whats a moonie?

A pseudo-Christian sect who believe the second coming occurred in the person of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, a self-made Korean Media Magnate who proclaimed himself and later his second wife Hak Ja Han the messiah after allegedly meeting God in North Korea shortly before the civil war.

They're a rather funny little bunch; they believe the original sin was Eve fucking Satan and an "energy exchange" which takes place during sex tainting all humanity with demonic bad Karma, they also believe Jesus "failed" and he shouldn't have died on the cross. They also don't call God God, but "Heavenly Parents" and believe Moon and Hak Jan represented the ideal couple, despite the fact he was a known manwhore and had been known to grant "salvation" to pretty female believers if they gave him a blowjob and swallowed. I'm not making that up. What they're most famous for though is mass weddings where Moon and now Hak choose peoples spouses and marry them all at once, all of them ideally being from different countries to encourage the production of mixed race children who are seen to embody a united humanity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_s_KuIIwDI

Hak is still alive and arguably more powerful than her husband ever was, she doesn't rear her head very often since her husband damaged the Church's reputation in the western world during the 80's but she inherited almost all of Moons business empire and owns several American media outlets like Washington Post. Several Korean premiers have been members of the Unification Church and Moon and Hak have been known to order their members to campaign politically for their favored candidates in different countries, they actually got in big trouble for this in the US when they ordered their minions at their peak of membership to campaign for and vote for Ronald Regan.

Sorry, sidetrack there   Couldn't resist, I find them fascinating considering their dramatic claims and incredible success story. The Unification Church is essentially the tool Moon used to create a colossal business empire building everything from TV's to guns, and it's still expanding thanks to his believers.

(July 13, 2015 at 3:57 pm)Crossless1 Wrote:

(July 13, 2015 at 3:48 pm)Beccs Wrote: Worked with a fanatic who always used to put pamphlets up on the corkboards and at everyone's places in the staff cafeteria until one of his managers grew tired of receiving complaints and told him to stop.

Didn't stop him trying to push his beliefs on people, though.

Last I heard he had been removed from his job in Sydney as a nurse for always pushing his beliefs onto patients and is now working in a retirement home.

A retirement home is the best place for him anyway.  Pushy religious types love to prey on the old and infirm.  Nothing like a deathbed for a quick and easy conversion.

If that kind of abuse is what to expect in a retirement home, I will have to make sure I kill myself rather than enter one.