Reply #27: I agree 100%... [View All]

[pelagius]

...although, having grown up in the "born-again" community, I urge caution dealing with these folks since their business practices are not always reality-based. And when they hire other Christians of their ilk, they tend to pay lower wages and demand more of what I can "emotional labor" since they frame the company's operations as a "ministry".

On the other hand, my wife works for an outdoor gear manufacturer that appears on all the "best places to work" lists because they have onsite yoga classes, casual dress, flextime, etc. and they pay their contractors (who do about 70% of the company's work) very low wages. They count on the "groovy factor" to keep people on the low side of the pay scale, so it's not just Christians doing this. See also: entertainment industry.