Have you ever worked with someone who refused to do part of their legal job due to religious objecti
objections? Did their religion or morality related to religious belief get in the way of their job? What did you do, how was it dealt with?
30 years ago I worked with a nurse who refused to give people dying on hospice care narcotics because it was against her ethical standards to give drugs someone would get addicted to. Pointing out that they were dying, soon, didn't matter because she just could not do it, morally. She also could not care for a person who was a failed suicide because suicide is a sin and she could not support anyone who did that as they were sinners going to hell. Yes, living with a face half blown off and suffering sneers from her were not enough, the person was a sinner headed straight for hell. Eventually.
The director of nurses tried working with this nurse to get her patients that didn't offend her morality or religion. The only good thing was this nurse did not try to force the rest of us to work and believe like she did. Eventually she quit nursing, discovering that having an open mind was a bit necessary while working with people.
Since then I have worked with many people, some of whom held very strong religious beliefs, some very strong moral beliefs, some lacking either or both. But none as blatant as the first one I mentioned. That was a bit odd.
How about you?
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He would not work on Saturday, but would work on Sunday. So we worked around that, we would divide up assignments for weekends (which is when we would install new operating systems and new releases of the software) and he would come in on Sunday and run the final tests.
I was system manager, so I had to work Saturday and Sunday. 
I wouldn't have problems with people taking certain holy days off (our company has floating holidays/flex days) or even taking time out to leave early if you need to be home by sundown if you need to leave early - as long as you make up the time in some other way or use vacation time.
My problem is that when a business advertises that they perform certain services and a consumer goes there expecting to get said services and the self-righteous religious clown doubles down and tells them why they can't serve them because they don' "believe in what they are doing". You could go crazy with this and imagine a 7th day adventist who was an EMT or ER worker refusing blood transfusions, a pharmacist refusing any number of drugs because he thinks they interfere w/ gods plan. And not just birth control, but viagra, psych meds (god wants you to suffer so that you will be closer to him 
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It's all a matter of respect and reason. I have no probelm cutting people slack for thier specical holiday. especially if we force ours on theirs. But some people take it to far. If you are that devoutly religious. Become a Nun or Monk or whaterver is around these days.
