A few weeks ago I wrote
a blog about how my former employers would impose their Republican views and
Mormon beliefs onto their workers. I never posted it.
One reason is because I
accidentally erased it off my pen drive. So, I sat down to re-write it and then
paused. What if it were divine intervention that caused me to lose the article?
Maybe a post like that wasn't meant to be published.
Then I snapped out of
it. Of course, a redunkulous work environment like that needs to be talked
about. It needs to be shouted about from the highest of mountains! I mean,
everybody knows that there is no place for religion or politics in the work
place.
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| If your workplace is designed after the LDS temple, RUN! |
And employers,
especially, have no right to put them there. Not only does it cause division
among workers, it takes them away from doing their jobs and could potentially
pass that fine line into harassment.
Case in point – My
former employers chose to infuse politics and religion into our work
environment by putting bumper stickers on their cars to rally the Mormon cause
for Prop 8 (that was the California initiative to ban gay marriage). By doing
so, they were basically setting themselves up for a harassment lawsuit from the
many gay workers they employed.
In fact, my direct
supervisor (aka the owner’s daughter), decided to slap one of those yellow
stickers on her highly visible car, despite the fact that she had, at the time,
about six gay people on her staff.
I would have loved for
someone to step up and say, “Hey, that’s harassment!” But no one did. Fear has
a way of silencing people.
I really would have
loved it more if she would have had the guts to tell her parents or the bishop
at her LDS bunker, "Hey, I'm not putting that thing on my car. I have gay
people on my staff and that would teeter on harassment. Plus it's just
rude."
But of course, that
didn't happen either.
So what happened was,
conversation started. Not gossip. Just like-minded employees talking about the
nerve and all-out gall of these despicable people who felt a need to shove
their beliefs down our throats and the stupidity that came along with it,
knowing that they were harassing a segment of their employees.
Basically, all of their
ploys and plans to keep everybody shut up and quiet were sabotaged by their own
hateful and bigoted actions. Absurd!
