Southern differences
Employee Appreciation Day at my job in LA: at a park, dumb games, families invited, decent food, etc.
Employee Appreciation Day at my job in S.C.: at the beach, dumb games, no families invited, decent food, and a blessing for said food. Seriously. We pray here. The only time anyone prayed in L.A. was after the towers went down in NYC. Our company occupied 2 floors in one of the towers and we lost like 140 people. It was well known that I and a co-worker, Dan, were Christians so they asked either one of us to pray at a staff meeting once. I'm prayer shy and thankfully Dan is not so he took that one. It's amazing to be at a place where it's assumed you have some sort of a relationship with God. They don't ask if you go to church, they ask where you go to church. Even if you only go on those two popular times a year (Christmas & Easter), you have a church that most of your family attends and has attended since the 1800s.
Employee Appreciation Day at my job in S.C.: at the beach, dumb games, no families invited, decent food, and a blessing for said food. Seriously. We pray here. The only time anyone prayed in L.A. was after the towers went down in NYC. Our company occupied 2 floors in one of the towers and we lost like 140 people. It was well known that I and a co-worker, Dan, were Christians so they asked either one of us to pray at a staff meeting once. I'm prayer shy and thankfully Dan is not so he took that one. It's amazing to be at a place where it's assumed you have some sort of a relationship with God. They don't ask if you go to church, they ask where you go to church. Even if you only go on those two popular times a year (Christmas & Easter), you have a church that most of your family attends and has attended since the 1800s.
posted by UhLisa | 7:51 AM
4 Comments:
That really is something. I've never worked at a place where your religion is assumed like that. I could see where it would be awkward if you were an atheist or Buddhist, etc....
Maybe there's just more tolerance here on the part of the other religions. I'm sure there are some Hindi, Buddhists, and atheists that work here but they don't seem to mind if a blessing is said before a meal. Not like California where if someone sneezes and you say' "God Bless You," they sneer at you and reply, "I don't believe in God you religious freak!"
Yikes, that's quite a reaction to someone saying "Bless you"!! It really seems like more of a figure of speech anymore than an actual religious saying. People need to calm down.
Even though I am religious, I think it might weird me out to pray at work. I have to admit I thought it was kinda weird that we prayed at our football games at USC.
But I would not care if an individual decided to pray over their meal etc. I'm weird, I know.
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