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Employment & Religion In Shops

Is it true that certain shops used to be sectarian in employment preferences ?

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Marks & Spencer traditionally preferred to have Catholic employees whenever possible and not Protestants. ( Hence labelling products St.Michael ).

Woolworths were the opposite way around preferring to recruit Protestants as opposed to Catholics whenever possible.
 
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jambo372 said:
Is it true that certain shops used to be sectarian in employment preferences ?

ie
Marks & Spencer traditionally preferred to have Catholic employees whenever possible and not Protestants. ( Hence labelling products St.Michael ).

Woolworths were the opposite way around preferring to recruit Protestants as opposed to Catholics whenever possible.
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I think it is certainly safe to say that it probably does
 
I know Crown International in Elkhart Ind.( they make professional audio amplifiers) is a predominately christian company. It was founded by a christan missionary.
They have morning prayers broadcasted over thier P.A. system.

I don't think they actively or officialy hire based on religeous affiliation. Just that if you work there, there are going to be christian overtones to everything.
 
I know the mormons are pretty tight. That's why it can be so devastating to be ex-communicated. Not only do you lose you religion, you may lose your livelihood.
 
I can remember as a teen looking for summer work in the factories and businesses in our city. Filling out an application meant filling in the little box that asked for religious affilliation. It was a well known fact that some businesses would not hire some affilliations.

It was made illegal around 1964 but that just put it undercover.
 
> It was made illegal around 1964 but that just put it undercover.

It's all part of the devil's master plan to turn religion into a meaningless, harmless lifestyle choice, rather than something that means something.

After all, it's considered wrong now, that if you wish to remain alive, you must work. And if you work, you must work with people whose religion is obviously the religion of the devil, instead of the nice, clean cut folks who worship like yourself. The government has decided your religion is meaningless and you and your business, i.e. the manner in which you remain alive, must include people who are clearly Hellbound deceivers, thus providing temptation to you to not fall prey to their wrongheaded, Devil-deceived ways.

Thanks, government! My likelihood of going to Hell is now increased because I must hire these devilspawns. :(
 
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jambo372 said:
Is it true that certain shops used to be sectarian in employment preferences ?

ie
Marks & Spencer traditionally preferred to have Catholic employees whenever possible and not Protestants. ( Hence labelling products St.Michael ).

Woolworths were the opposite way around preferring to recruit Protestants as opposed to Catholics whenever possible.
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Are you intending to provide evidence for this nonsense?

Marks & Spencer was founded by Michael Marks, a Jewish refugee from Poland. I don't know why they branded their clothes as St Michael; maybe his name had something to do with it. If anything, the company is associated with the Anglo-Jewish community.

As for Woolies? I always thought the pick 'n mix had too many orange sweeties in it.

You need to get out of North Lanarkshire. Watching all those parades must be bad for your mental health.
 
Look at this

AOL, CompuServe, MSN, Earthlink, SBC-Yahoo, Juno, & NetZero

What do all these have in common? They all support anti-Christian agendas including porn, homosexuality, feminism, socialism and a myriad of other anti-Christian agendas including false religions.
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You now have a Christian Choice. Crossway Christian ISP & Christian Resource Center is more than just an ISP. It is an ISP that provides Christians their own customizable Christian portal loaded with Christian Content that is ever expanding.
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Odin said:
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If it helps, religious organizations are exempt from the civil rights act, and not just for "religious" positions. Amos v. Morman Church....the church fired the janitor for not keeping up with his mormanism. The church won.

Feldstein v Christian science monitor -- the CSM refused to hire Feldstien as a reporter for their secular publication, because he wasn't a christian scientist. Church won.

I'm pretty sure the catholic church could say "no black priests" and that would be legal-- assuming it were / somehow became a bona fide religious belief.
 
mummymonkey
Are you intending to provide evidence for this nonsense?
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They’re speaking of shops in the US.
You know, the land of the free as long as you belief agrees with me.

Ossai
 
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mummymonkey said:
Are you intending to provide evidence for this nonsense?

Marks & Spencer was founded by Michael Marks, a Jewish refugee from Poland. I don't know why they branded their clothes as St Michael; maybe his name had something to do with it. If anything, the company is associated with the Anglo-Jewish community.

As for Woolies? I always thought the pick 'n mix had too many orange sweeties in it.

You need to get out of North Lanarkshire. Watching all those parades must be bad for your mental health.
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Evidence for what ?
I was only asking if it was true.

A relation of mine went for a job interview years ago at M&S, she was a Protestant, 4 other women besides her were being interviewed for jobs - 2 Catholics and 2 Protestants.

The 2 Catholics were immediately given jobs and she and the other 2 Protestants were turned down.

Both incidences occured in Glasgow.
Additionally, nearly everybody I know who shops at M&S are Catholics.

Shortly afterwards she was in a similar situation with a job interview in Woolworths. Again there were several women ( 3 Catholics and 3 Protestants ) this time she and the 2 other Protestants got jobs and the 3 Catholics were turned down.
 
Odin said:
Look at this
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Feminism and Socialism are anti-Christian? If anything, I would have thought that socialism, especially, would have been a very Christian doctorine. Taking care of your fellow man, and all that.
 
Upchurch said:
Feminism and Socialism are anti-Christian? If anything, I would have thought that socialism, especially, would have been a very Christian doctorine. Taking care of your fellow man, and all that.
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there's a difference between doctrine, and dogma.
 
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jambo372 said:
Evidence for what ?
I was only asking if it was true.

A relation of mine went for a job interview years ago at M&S, she was a Protestant, 4 other women besides her were being interviewed for jobs - 2 Catholics and 2 Protestants.

The 2 Catholics were immediately given jobs and she and the other 2 Protestants were turned down.

Both incidences occured in Glasgow.
Additionally, nearly everybody I know who shops at M&S are Catholics.

Shortly afterwards she was in a similar situation with a job interview in Woolworths. Again there were several women ( 3 Catholics and 3 Protestants ) this time she and the 2 other Protestants got jobs and the 3 Catholics were turned down.
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How could they tell? I mean, do people really look Catholic or not? I guess if you list your name as "Margaret Mary" or your middle name is "Pius", then maybe it's a clue...

I heard once that the people in Northern Ireland claim they can tell if someone's Catholic or Protestant just by looking. If there weren't sometimes Black-and-Decker drills involved, I'd like to test that. Ethnically, I'm Catholic. But it didn't really stick past adolescence. Would it still show?

When I lived in Tennessee, this Baptist kid told me his maiden aunts told him as a child that Catholics had to wear their hair messy to hide the horns.
 
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TragicMonkey said:
How could they tell? I mean, do people really look Catholic or not? I guess if you list your name as "Margaret Mary" or your middle name is "Pius", then maybe it's a clue...

I heard once that the people in Northern Ireland claim they can tell if someone's Catholic or Protestant just by looking. If there weren't sometimes Black-and-Decker drills involved, I'd like to test that. Ethnically, I'm Catholic. But it didn't really stick past adolescence. Would it still show?

When I lived in Tennessee, this Baptist kid told me his maiden aunts told him as a child that Catholics had to wear their hair messy to hide the horns.
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How can you tell ?
Several ways.
Either they ask you your Religion in the application form or ask you in the interview.
They could also make quite a good guess based on your surname ie if it sounds Italian, Irish, Spanishy then you're probably a Catholic.
 
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jambo372 said:
How can you tell ?
Several ways.
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Also: never underestimate the effects of culture and style as a means of group identification. Little things -- how long you wear your hair, the colo(u)rs and styles of the clothing you wear, etc,. can be powerful cues to your identity, even when neither you nor the observer are aware of it.

For example, I can nearly always distinguish between business and science students at my local university. The business students wear belts that match their shoes.
 
AOL, CompuServe, MSN, Earthlink, SBC-Yahoo, Juno, & NetZero

What do all these have in common? They all support anti-Christian agendas including porn, homosexuality, feminism, socialism and a myriad of other anti-Christian agendas including false religions.
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OK, I don't know about the rest, but socialism? How many socialist organizations sell stock that's traded on Wall Street? Sure, not all CEOs are right-leaning Republicans and they contribute to "progressive" causes for at least PR purposes, but I think these companies are definetly capitalist institutions.

I'm no fan of left-wing economics myself, but come on people! "Red baiting" went out with Tailgunner Joe's reputation (as if McCarthy ever had one).
 
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