27th Jan 2008
Spirituality at Work Roundup
I’ve divided the Spirituality at Work Roundups into categories by theme. This is a round up on daily struggles and survival at work.
Losing Weight at Work Bringing Home the Bacon, Keeping Off the Weight tells the weight loss struggles of three individuals in the workplaces with a lot of food and sedentary tasks.
Communal Living What chores would Jesus do? documents the difficulty of attempting to be Jesus-like in a communal home with adults, children, and dirty dishes.
Freelance Musicians Freeway Philharmonic is a documentary that follows the lives of seven Bay Area freelance classical musicians. You can see the trailer here, and sympathize with the musicians. That looks like a hard day.
Flex Time for Lawyers Ever so slowly, law firms are allowing for more flexible use of hours, including reducing the number that must be billed for, and using alternative plans for time.
English-Only at Work Apparently there are some businesses that don’t allow people to speak Spanish. I’m guessing these businesses are not in Southern California. Yep, it’s the Salvation Army in Framingham, Massachusetts, which fired two clothing sorters for speaking Spanish. I can’t come up with any comment other than Dumbass Salvation Army—that’s illegal unless it’s for safety reasons and it seems to go against your own Christian doctrine.
I guess if Jesus showed up to work at the Salvation Army, they would have fired him, too, for not speaking English.
So ridiculous.
That is correct!
I finally got around to reading the Communal Living article. Definitely sounds tough - but it’s interesting. I do I wonder why, if they were all middle class, did they move into a crappy house?
It sounded like they were trying to be like Jesus and live among the poor. What I got from it was how it took a lot of “hanging in there” for them to be accepted and helpful, but in the end they were.