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Permalink Reply by Leslie Ann on June 29, 2012 at 9:25pm

I sell makeup from a very well known company that is pretty religious. Since it is the US they couldn't ask me outright if I was religious. But I really love and believe in the products that they sell so I joined anyways. (It's super awkward for me when they start every meeting with a prayer.) I decided it's best to keep quiet about it unless they get the lady balls to ask me (and I'll say it like no big deal). To me it's none of their business and shouldn't be used to judge my ability to do my job. But if they did have a question like and if it was legal, I would be honest. I'm tired of that damn closet.

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Permalink Reply by Gabriela Menicucci on June 29, 2012 at 9:37pm

I admire you, I don't know if I would be able to handle that clear favoritism towards christianity. Is good that you haven't tell them, and if they are hardcore catholics (the kind that prays in bussiness meetings) they might take it as a sin by omission.

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Permalink Reply by Pope OoO (Out of Order) on June 29, 2012 at 11:45pm

I guess I might be one of the few who would lie, but only if I really wanted to work for that company (because I know something about it that I like), and if I thought it would help.

If I didn't have special interest in the company, I might say N/A or Pastafarian, depending on my mood. N/A seems to me to be a polite way of saying "it doesn't matter". "Pastafarian" is more direct and to the point, and a lot of people wouldn't know what it is unless they googled it.

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Permalink Reply by Gabriela Menicucci on June 30, 2012 at 12:58am

N/A lol that's real trollism

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Permalink Reply by Pope OoO (Out of Order) on June 30, 2012 at 1:28am

Haha, that would actually be my most honest answer. Unless I was applying to work for a religious organization, but even then I might feel the need to be honest. (I may actually volunteer for a religious charity when I have time, because they do good work that no one else around here does. Come to think of it, even they didn't ask me what my religion is.)

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Permalink Reply by Sagacious Hawk on June 29, 2012 at 9:48pm

"... is inconsequential to my work ethic, which actually borders on the supernatural."

I don't agree with lying, but I do agree with not answering stupid questions.

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Permalink Reply by Gabriela Menicucci on June 30, 2012 at 12:59am

Good quote, will translate it and keep it in mind for future interviews.

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Permalink Reply by Rob Klaers on June 30, 2012 at 1:01am

Gabriela... Verizon by U.S. law can not ask someone their religion. 

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Permalink Reply by Gabriela Menicucci on June 30, 2012 at 3:40pm

Rob I guess they they adjust to the laws of each country just as they have different names in different countries.

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Permalink Reply by Rikke Petersen on June 30, 2012 at 2:33am

I can't by the life of me see why that should be relevant on a job-application. O_o

No I would never lie about it, because a workplace where I'd have to lie about something like that, I am pretty sure I'd be dead miserable in to begin with.

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Permalink Reply by James Cox on June 30, 2012 at 3:26pm

The people at the jon site want to feel confortable with a share self delusion of superiority and legitimacy. It goes bact to the assertion that 'non-believers are not moral'. I my experience, believers, because they have an out and can be 'forgiven' have no trouble being lyers or cheats. In their book a non-believer is a second class citizen, not worthy of principled treatment, they are going to hell anyway, why bother.

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Permalink Reply by Cristynfaye on June 30, 2012 at 3:06am

When I worked at a daycare in a Baptist church in Tennessee, I had to sign a document that stated 1. Jesus is my personal Lord and savior 2. I believe the bible is the inerrant word of God 3. I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman.  

Now, this was at the beginning of my de-conversion, so all of those things were up in the air.  I already was pretty ok with gay marriage, and I didn't really believe the bible was inerrant, but I still did have a "relationship" with Jesus.  So I signed it, because I was desperately in need of a job.  I didn't really feel too bad about it though because I still considered myself to be a Christian at the time.  Even though I hated all the biblical stuff we had to teach the kids.  They had to say the "pledge of allegiance to the bible" every day-yes, it's a real thing.  And it was very important that they knew it, even though some of them were going into kindegarten and didn't even know how to write their name or hold a pencil correctly. I hated that daycare.  But I loved the kids, and I needed a job, so I kept it until we decided to be atheists and get the hell out of the south.

The point is, at that point in time I was ok with stretching the truth about my faith.  But if I was asked now about it, I would also probably say that my religion was "none".  There's also no way I would EVER work for a Christian ministry or daycare again.  At least not an evangelical one.  *shudders*

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