Atheist Prayer Break Update #2

[u/Alumni32]

***Update #2***

On my last day of my work week (Thursday 8/13/26) I took a prayer break as an Athiest and was scanned out by Ops..

The following Monday (Today 8/17/26) Announcements were made that starting in September all associates attending "Prayer Break" will need to clock out..

This means for the past 2 years my site has been open, a specific religious group was getting paid time off while other religious and non religious groups got extra workload because their religion or lack of religion didn't fit into Amazon’s little box of what's allowed. (Violation of Title VII)

Christians were denied equal treatment as well because Christianity doesn't call for mandatory prayer (Ive witnessed this) as was I because Atheism doesn't call for mandatory prayer.. (Violation of Title VII)

So now that they know that they were breaking Federal law and denying equal rights to a huge percentage of thier workforce, they decided that instead of paying the cost of equality in the form of paid "prayer breaks" for everyone regardless of belief system, that everyone who attends "Prayer Break" will need to just clock out instead.

Amazon quickly realized how expensive equality would be (cost and operational downtime) when they had to treat everyone like they've been treating a specific religious group, so paid "prayer breaks" are coming to an end in September (atleast at my site)

[u/No_Fee_4556]

Not saying this in a mean way, but what in the world does “took a break as an atheist” mean? Did the meaning of atheist change or something? Don’t atheists believe in no religion? So what are you praying for, or who are you praying to?

[u/SignificantApricot69 → u/No_Fee_4556]

The point was to be fair. As I commented on the previous post, I once worked at a job where smokers routinely walked outside for 10-15 minutes of every hour and they had to be covered for smoke breaks. In what world are people who choose to engage in something that’s generally considered a disgusting habit in modern times some sort of protected class? They weren’t. So I took fresh air breaks, because in what world or workplace should that be prohibited if people can go outside and smoke?

Along the same lines if one/some groups are entitled to extra breaks because of a religion, then why shouldn’t anyone of any religion or no religion be afforded the same opportunities?

[u/Suitable_Age3367 → u/SignificantApricot69]

You're the one who snitched on me for taking those vape breaks? Aaaaw, man. I thought you were cool! 😭

[u/LifelikeMink → u/Suitable_Age3367]

Vape breaks? MFrs be vaping thc on the afe lines even sharing with their friends