You could contact OSHA and find out what they have to say.  i know i just recently had to go through that yearly training session and for the first time ever they stayed on the topic of Religion for about 20 minutes.  They talked about how Religion should stay out of the workplace Period, and that having a lack of belief still means that you still shouldn't talk about it. They also said that if someone gets offended even once they need to talk to either there boss or contact OSHA. i say OSHA because boss is liable to just brush it off.

OSHA isn't the right place - that's for safety. File an anonymous complaint with the EEOC. You could also start a bonfire!

Last poster - wrong. With that attitude slavery would still be around and women still couldn't vote.

I didn't put myself in this situation, if you would have read I found out after the fact,  for me to sit back and take it is just completely against who i am. It is not right at all for a job to talk about their religion. It's extremely bad business for anyone who has taken a business class you would know that. I'm not bitching about the fact that they believe, I have absolutely no problem with that what so ever. The problem I have is that at first it was ok but now I really feel uncomfortable, and sure quiting would be the easy route but I live in Michigan and this state is dying quickly.

I did read your post carefully and you clearly said you heard before that it was a very Christian company. It is your responsibility to exercise some due diligence and research the company before applying for employment. You heard the company was Christian, you did not bother to look into it, you took a job, and now after two years you want them to change to suit you. What cry baby bullshit. They are playing the music they like, some of the lyrics mention Jesus, you have no right to ask them to turn it off. You took a job in a place you knew to be Christian. After two years you decide they are too Christian and you want to lead an anti-Christianity crusade against them.

For you to sit back and take it is against who you are? So you are the type of guy who takes a Nun on a date and then complains when she doesn’t sleep with you? You willingly take employment with a company you know to be Christian, then you say they are too Christian for you.  

I have taken many business classes; I am a 21 year old self-made millionaire with several businesses and many employees. I talk about science and my lack of belief in God with employees all the time. I talk about it with Christians, Muslims, and Jews. My businesses are thriving in very harsh conditions and are growing fast. When I happen to accidently employ self-righteous assholes who are an impediment to my business I find an excuse to fire them. It sounds like the company you work for is doing very well, even with Christian music and posters.

People complaining every time they feel the least bit uncomfortable is bullshit.

What is wrong with the U.S. (and also Australia) is that the U.S. is a litigious society full of little girls that cry over spilt milk. More regulations do not make for a healthier society. All the U.S. needs is more government regulations; it is already on the fast track to becoming a police nation.

I cannot believe anybody would want the government to tell business owners how to run their businesses. They are not forcing religion upon him they are playing Christian music and putting a sentence at the bottom of a poster. If they forced employees to attend some kind of religious meeting I would be the first to say that they are wrong.

This is all so fucking ridiculous. How far does it have to go before people stop having laws created to prevent them slight discomfort. Santa Clause cannot say ‘ho, ho, ho’ anymore because it sounds like the word ‘hoe’. Fuck it, I am going to move to Europe so I can live in a sane society. I want to hear Santa say 'ho', I want business owners to be able to run their business however they choose too. I do not want tedious and ridiculous rule impeding my enjoyment of life just so a few pretentious assholes can live their lives in a comfort bubble.

I'm actually a socialist - leaning toward communist. If I had the choice between getting rid of Capitalism or religion from the world it would be a very difficult choice for me. I personally think CEO's/Business owners who mistreat/exploit their employees should either be executed or sent to prison for life and all their property confiscated. Not a normal prison either - one where they are in their cell 24/7 and if they make one sound the guards beat the shit out of them with their batons.

Not regulating business is insane. The government lets business "run the way it wants" way too much. I'd rather have the government tell businesses exactly how to run. You definitely don't want to move to Europe. European countries don't kiss corporate ass anywhere close to how they do in the US. At the very least I'd like to see businesses that violate regulations in a VASTLY less pro-business government be taken over by the government with no compensation to the owners.

Who is being mistreated/exploited?  I'll tell you what, Matt.  I'm going to sit in your house 40 hours a week.  If you do anything that offends me you are going to get all of your property confiscated, you will get thrown in jail, and ass raped by the guards everyday.

Welcome to your socialist paradise!

Oh.  Ok, throw the word Nazi in there and you make a completely valid point.  What an idiotic thing to say.

The Soviet Union died and the Capitalist America thrived.  Your idea on social order FAILED, Matt.

I agree you don't get successful by working hard.  You get successful by working intelligently.  If you are too stupid to figure it out for yourself then just make the world a communist planet and then everyone can be dirt poor together.

The Soviet Union didn't follow Marx at all - I want a government control of business but total social freedom. I have a degree (3.0 average, 140's IQ) , but since I don't know the "right" people, have the "right" opinions - plus being disabled physically and not an extrovert I'm at the bottom of the economic scale. Face it, the system in the US keeps the rich rich and keeps the poor poor.

Posting gpa's and IQs is evidence of someone trying to defend an idiotic viewpoint.  I don't give two shits over your 3.0 average and 140's IQ (Like a single number could accurately say anything about a persons intelligence).  If you think that shit is so hot then I can truthfully retaliate that I also have a degree (3.85 average, 140's IQ).  So the fuck what?  My gpa and IQ doesn't help me defend my opinion.

I had a college buddy that got out of college, started trading bonds over the internet, made millions, and retired at the age of 25.  He lives in Hawaii.  He wasn't priviledged and he didn't know any "right" people.  And he could have done it in a wheelchair.  He did it all sitting at his desk in his house on his computer.

Your opinion on this is pisspoor.

So he got lucky. That's no more of a defense for Capitalism than someone winning the lottery is. You do know that Testimonials are worthless? Look how bad the gap between rich and poor in this asshat country is compared to other western countries. Almost as bad as the 3rd world. I fucking hate Capitalism more than religion.

People get down and hold themselves down.  No one said life is easy but if you work your ass off you can get ahead.  That's the nature of the beast.  Capitalism isn't a perfect system, and it does have bad effects from a cultural perspective of keeping the poor poor and rich rich.  That is not a case for the individual.  Many individuals make the jump from poor to rich or at least poor to middle-class without a problem.  The problem lies in that the majority of people don't try or are too willing to "give up" when they face adversity and blame on the system rather than blame it on themselves.

The problem with the system is that it tends to produce people who do resign themselves to their classification and put people in a system where it sometimes seems easier to take the 'easy way out' by doing something that is not productive to progress.

But I can't state enough that just because the system has problems, that is not an excuse for the individual.  I think a lot of things should be socialized, but I don't think the work force should be.  I hate unions as it is much less a full country of unionization and lack of control over what you do and your rate of progression.

Individuals decide their fate, not the system.

You apparently have 0 clue as to the simple fact that many people who own stores are not in the slightest bit rich.

I disagree totally with your first statement, and agree with the last statement.

I agree with your premise that the system is broken, but your ideological standards of killing people due to their wealth is simply fucking asshat crazy. Punish people because they had more fortunes than you?  That's fucked dude.

You're the one who is deluded, shitstain.  You have just as much ability to start a business and succeed or fail as anyone else.  The last company I worked for was started in the 70's by a man working out of his garage.  He is a multi billionaire.

"Apple was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne  to sell the Apple I personal computer kit. They were hand-built by Steve Wozniak in the living room of Jobs' parents' home, and the Apple I was first shown to the public at the Homebrew Computer Club."

My father had an alcoholic one armed carpenter for a father and a extremely depressed mother.  When he was a child he had no shoes.  He would get kicked out of school for having his hair unkempt.  He had to beg his grandparents and neighbors for food.

In the 80's he employed 50 people in a construction company that he made for himself.  He owns over a thousand acres of land and 400 cattle.  He is a self-made millionare.

You are SERIOUSLY fucked in the head.

Amfk, I would just chill, try to bear the xianity as long as you can, and try to look for some different job on which to fall if you get too sick of it all. But keep tabs on the stuff just in case they find out you don't believe in their ever-present, overbearing know-it-all.

if it is indeed a privately owned business you're not in a position to demand or force a change, but you do have a right to decline participation in events or activities of a religious nature. i doubt it's in your job description that you're required to engage in group prayer or wear xian t-shirts, etc. so you have every right to refuse to do so without consequence. but as far making the owners remove religious references from company documents, that's beyond your control.

my advice, simply ignore the xian propaganda and do your job. and if the day comes when they ask you, as part of your employment, to do or say something of a religious nature, just say no.

Hi amfk,

If leaving them is not an option, how about milking them for all they are worth?  For example, do they offer tuition reimbursement?  If they do, take advantage of that, get a degree, and as soon as you've paid off your end of the deal, go to another company, or start your own.  The important thing is to plan what you want to do, and then execute that plan.  Believe me, the time goes by quickly, so before you know it, you will have graduated. 

For example, I'm currently in a similar situation, except I'm not working for a christian company; I'm just in a dead end job.  Right now, I'm having them pay for my second college degree, and at the same time I'm developing a game that I intend to release sometime next year.  Also, as soon as I graduate, I'm going to start sending my resume out to as many game studios as I can find.  If I can find a good fit someplace, I'm going to work for them to essentially learn the ropes of running a game development studio.  Otherwise, I will concentrate on the game I'm developing myself and see where that leads.

The point is that you really can make the best of a bad situation.  Don't ever feel that you have to somehow stay in a bad situation forever.  Instead, look at your options, make a plan, and carry it out.  I won't say that it will be easy, my own personal experience proves it, but in the end it really does work.

"religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich" napoleon bonaparte.

being from detroit i can some what sympathize with you. i know what it is like to be dirt poor and going to grosse pointe and robbing and killing some rich white man. but i just don't care about money that much. besides a wise man (well at least i think he's wise) henry rollins once said "if you hate your parents, the man, or the establishment, don't show the up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. if you really wanna rebel, out learn them out live them, and know more than they do" and to me that means more to me than any kind of money.