*Facepalm* I would have loved to have caught them in the act of doing that. They get really freaked out if you catch them doing it.

I used to work in a grocery store over the summer while I went to school for around 8 to 9 months out of the year. Basically all the religious nuts (the store was down the road from a Baptist church) had this idea that I must have been a single mother or drug user (therefore seasonally fired and rehired) or something since I disappeared for such vast amounts of time. I was always getting some talking about drug use or being pregnant and getting pamphlets. God forbid if I worked on Sunday to save money up for college, not only was I drug using Harlot, I was anti-christian as well. Getting spit on, swore at, threatened was a pretty common thing. I even got yelled at once because I happened to have a box of Berty Bott’s Ever flavor beans in my apron, and expressing how fun they were to another cashier.

If you confront them about this stuff instead just accepting it, they get really pissed, especially when you use logical reasoning. I love doing it to people like this. I also like pretending to be Jewish, it pisses them off even more 😉

@... I am Nate

I truly agree with you and you have every right to. I guess I find this particular behavior appalling because I was brought up Christian, and still retain Christian values as well still return my church every summer to teach bible school.

I probably should have specified with “Christian of this belief system” or “pamphlet pushers” instead just labeling them simply christians.

I thought I clearly alienated “Christians” of this school of thought, but I was clearly wrong (and appearantly not sober yet when I put down that comment)

Without a question of doubt, the rudest people I have met have been people stopping by the store after church, not just Baptists, but Brethren, Catholics, Protestants, Mormons, and there was some crazy cult of people who went to church all weekend (these were the pamphlet pushers). Anyone who had the misfortune of working at a grocery store of some sort on Sunday between the hours of 11 am and 1 Pm will probably agree that this is day and these are the times in which you’ll meet the rudest people, dressed up in their Sunday best.

I would wait on hundreds of church goers, and not have a problem (and have a lot of wonderful conversations), then I’ll get that handful that basically ruined my day and I forget about the dozens of other people who were extremely nice to me, because that’s just the way nice and hostile work. You’ll always remember the hostile ones.

The moment I got seniority where I worked, I requested not to ever work Sundays, unless it was after 1, and the moment I found a better job, I quit.

I’m also wondering if how they react may also be gender related, if they’re more forceful with females than they are with males, or more forceful with males than they are with females. If I was a pysch major and had the resources I’d love to do an experiment related to that.