How are you seen at work?

[Lost-in-FL]

In my case? For some I'm an evil Atheist and I'm horrendously cynical. I was even called a communist and that I would make evil comments about religious people (Only out of frustration when someone tries to "indoctrinate me" and profess their deep concern for my spirituality). If that happens I basically throw it in their faces that if there was nothing to gain from church (like going to heaven for them) they would never cared to go. Others won't bother talking about faith cause they "are always right." I hate my job...

I have toned down. I really hate discussion with my coworkers but i feel that they would love to take me to church with them. I think is very childish. Someone even infest my e-mail with trashy religious subjects. I hate my job...

[TZ]

1. I'm pretty much the only "atheist" in my group

at work (although one woman regularly talks of her disgust with organized religion). But nobody minds. We get along well, we discuss politics and religion very civilly. But maybe cause we are scientists .....We tend to fight more about lab methodology....:rofl:

[Lost-in-FL]

4. Well...

I got this statement from one of the most verbal of them all (the one that stuffs my e-mail with trash) ; "Theology is the enemy of faith." To wish I answered; "And why is that bad?" He couldn't answer. He blabbered something incoherent about God and the "Word of God" and the Bible.

I'm happy when they don't talk about religion. When they get started it brings the worse of me not because I am mean to them but because I say things that make sense to them and I know it hurt them deeply. Like a slap in the face. That is why they say I am mean and I definitely do not enjoy it. They just stay quiet and shake their heads in disbelief like... Oh my god, you are so going to hell.

[lizerdbits]

2. There are a fair number of atheists/agnostics where I am

I was pleasantly surprised working in an area much redder than where I live, I thought I was going to be surrounded by fundies/freepers. I don't know if there's a higher concentration of us in science or I just got lucky. We interviewed a woman who had been doing some kind of neurological research who made a statement about "looking at pieces of god" in her work which was a real turn off for a lot of us, including theists.

There's a few people that I know of that are religious but they aren't out to convert. I'm sorry you work with assholes.

[Lost-in-FL]

3. I'm sorry too...

:cry:

[Warpy]

7. There was one deist at my last job

a freethinker who thought there might be some sort of consciousness to the universe but that it was a completely impersonal one.

There were a lot of fundies, though.

I have no clue how they saw me, although I was polite enough to be in the "I'm not religious" group. I do know that none of them had the guts to try to preach at me, although they did preach at other people.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. Rarely

Because I'm in my cubicle much of the time. Nyuk, nyuk.

Actually, I'm lucky to work for a company (Quark) where no one talks about religion and the political atmosphere is liberal.

[Kolesar]

6. With my neat grooming and politeness, the religious cozy up to me

...because they think I am one of them. They eventually bring up Jesus. Then I drop the A-bomb.

[Synnical]

8. I so want to comment on this, but

As the HR person at my job, I cannot.

A reminder, anything you post on the internet you should consider public domain!

-Cindy in Fort Lauderdale

[JNelson6563]

9. I work in politics

I am currently managing a Congressional race for a nice Irish Catholic boy (well actually he's 40 but he does a have a good Catholic school boy sort of personality). He knows I'm an atheist but I also grew up Catholic & went to Catholic school. My experience in "the church" was actually very positive so I don't carry baggage from that and can relate completely to his POV. He is very respectful of my views. (BTW he's a pro-choice Catholic)

All my political allies know I am "heathen" and many of them are too. Relgion really only comes up when we talk about it playing into politics. Nobody ever, ever, ever tries to preach to me or whatever and I never disrespect their beliefs. We all share the view that fundies, no matter the make or model, are a dangerous breed. :-)

I'm also helping an Appeals Court candidate, another Irish Catholic guy. Very liberal and kind hearted.

I seem to have the good fortune of finding fine Irish fellows who are Catholic but couldn't care less about what anyone else believes. I just love 'em. I wish more believers were like them.

Julie

[onager]

10. Interesting question...

At work here in Egypt: the subject of my (lack of) religion really just doesn't come up. My co-workers are mostly Muslim, but there are quite a few Coptic Xians and at least one Egyptian Catholic.

Once when I was first here, one of my co-workers got inquisitive about my religious beliefs. The others told him to knock it off, since I obviously didn't want to talk about it and it was embarassing me. I was grateful for that.

I told a few of my co-workers the truth. One of them shrugged and said: "That's cool. A lot of my friends are non-believers. But I think everybody believes in something." He's a fairly devout but pretty liberal Muslim. I guess. :shrug:

Funny Cultural Note: even the "liberal" Muslim men here seem to have a big problem with their wives working. One of them said straight out that he does not want his wife talking to strange men, and she obviously would have to do that in most jobs.

But one of the Xians is a proud father of a brand-new baby boy. His wife got maternity leave, which is just about over. He says she's going straight back to work ASAP because they need the money.

*****

At work in the USA: oh, that's different. Quite a few whiny Xians who paper their walls with urban legends about prayer in school etc.

I almost reported one guy to HR myself. His office wall bore this charming message: It's one nation under God or get your ass out.

Oddly enough, one of my fellow atheists at work is a conservative Republican. Great guy. I always enjoy talking to him. But he is NOT a far-right Neocon type. More a traditional Rockefeller Repub. Which, these days, means he's practically a Clinton Democrat.

We had some good arguments over the Newdow Pledge of Allegiance case. Like many DU'ers, he thought it was a was a waste of time and focused unnecessary attention on atheists. And I disagreed.

[and-justice-for-all]

11. Yeah, I work with a plethora of delusion drones...

But I am not the only Atheist in town either.

I had one guy, Pentecostal Fundie, make an attempt at pleading his case for his invisible friends. So I laid his ass out with "If you do not have any hard evidence for your argument, you do not have a case let alone an argument. 'Faith' is in fact the complete opposite of FACTS, so until you have something besides your 'faith' for your argument for your invisible friends, this discussion is over."

He sends those ridiculous religious emails to me, along with just about everybody at work, so I 'reply to all' with either Dawkins or Harris articles.

Fuck'em, I fear no fundie and I will not be intimidated by them either. I will tell one to go fuck them selves just as fast as I would anyone else.