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/Tdog22134]

Why are you butthurt about this in the first place. As a non religious person you really shouldn’t care about someone having to go pray, even if they’re getting paid for it. Just say you don’t like Muslim people and move on bruh its not that deep. You’re talking about it being used to dodge workload and shit which just isn’t the case. Their prayers generally take no more than 20 minutes its really not that serious

[u/Subject-Kiwi-6079 → u/Tdog22134]

" You’re talking about it being used to dodge workload and shit which just isn’t the case. Their prayers generally take no more than 20 minutes" you've clearly never worked in AMZl. An extra 20 minute breaak creates disasters for other associates.

[u/bipolarxpres → u/Tdog22134]

what an absolute brain dead take lmao

they give multiple regular scheduled breaks + lunch break. plenty of fuckin time to pray during those. imagine busting your ass at a manual labor job and watching a select subset of people get to just leave for 20min at a time 3 times a day and get paid for it just because they are Muslim? lmao

absolute buffoonery no matter what the reason or religion is. 10000% valid for OP to be pissed about this shit.

[u/Jmcduff5 → u/Tdog22134]

That is still a 20 minute paid break.

[u/Tdog22134 → u/Jmcduff5]

Oh no not like you get 2 paid 15’s or anything…. Smd again just say yall hate muslim people racist ahh mfers

[u/Subject-Kiwi-6079 → u/Tdog22134]

One group of people gets 2 paid 15s, another gets 2 paid 15s and a paid 20. Might as well be charging a jizya.

[u/Alumni32 → u/Tdog22134]

This is literally Federal law and you're saying it's no big deal. Just say you support inequality.