Work dilemma - input appreciated

May 01, 2006 16:07

You may or may not know I'm pretty sensitive to matters of faith. I like them explicitly seperate from work and government ( Read more... )

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the_drifter May 1 2006, 19:57:28 UTC
I've never worked in a corporate job, so I don't know how helpful I'll be, but here's my two bits. If all else was good and I didn't want to have to specify my religion to voice my concerns, I think I'd go to the person who seemed most approachable while still being high up enough to initiate change if they decide it's appropriate. I'd ask to speak to them and then tell them I'd heard a number of discussions of religion at work that indicated many of the employees were of a common faith. I'd explain that I'd previously worked at a company where a lot of the higher-ups were of the same faith, and that they'd made it a very uncomfortable work environment for people of different religions and value systems. Nothing overt, but people not of that faith were made to feel subtly unwelcome and either left because they became uncomfortable or because they'd been passed over for promotion a number of times. I'd say that this experience had left me very gunshy about religion in the workplace, and that I really was generally happy with the ( ... )

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