Have you spent time volunteering or helping your community after your long week of work? IF SO, did it help you in your meat business ?
when I started the trade it was required by my companies and most companies that you went to Church and did community projects
I guess all or most stores were closed on Sunday back then. Especially in the south.
That's one of the most ridiculous company policies I've ever heard of.
Unless you're scheduled and paid, why the hell should you have to go to church? And which church?
There's more than one kind of church. What if you're Muslim? Or worship Satan? USA is supposed to have freedom of religion which can also mean freedom from religion.
Many church's were racist back then. Even as late as 1976
President Jimmy Carter was a member at a church in Plains Georgia and his church didn't admit black members. This is according to President Jimmy Carter's book White House Diary page 82. That doesn't sound like something I'd want to be part of.
I don't see how this could help a meat cutter be more successful in his job. However, if you're the owner, it could bring you a lot of business, and may (in some cases) be the real reason someone would go to church.
I think it's wonderful if a person volunteers to help others in any way. But I think it's terrible that a company would require you do it. That doesn't fit the definition of "volunteer"
It sounds like small town community stuff where everyone went to the same church including the store's customers. So if a store employee wasn't seen at church the company would worry about a backlash for hiring a heathen.
To be openly non baptist in the south of those days was a big no no. But surely it wasn't mandatory was it? Maybe just strongly encouraged? it wouldn't surprise me if it was indeed mandatory as ignorance was rampant then.
I doubt they hired any black employees in the companies Leon is referring to. This was the 1960s Georgia with the Ku Klux Klan running around like idiots and Jim Crow laws trying to keep the two races separate.
They likely hired only white church going baptists and did business with only white church going customers. They wouldn't have to require them to go to church. They went anyway.
The company probably just made it a point to be involved in Community events and expected the employees to help out. I would think they were paid for this.
-- Edited by fdarn on Wednesday 10th of September 2014 04:00:28 PM
-- Edited by fdarn on Wednesday 10th of September 2014 05:06:00 PM
Its encouraged buyt not mandatory. My company gave me a hard time about getting Sundays off for church =/
Ha ha. That's right. Times have changed. Now it's hard to get the day off. I'd be afraid to even ask for every Sunday off. It's an unreasonable request. If you want that, you're in the wrong business.
