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My boss keeps pushing her religious agenda in the workplace. Report to HR?

I (24F) was hired as a sales rep at a large corporate company around two months ago. In my hiring interview with my now boss, Lucy, (52F) I was asked what my religion is. I answered honestly that I indetify as a Christian, but that I'm not very active with the church these days. Lucy told me she is a practicing Christian as well. After training, myself and another new sales rep began reporting directly to Lucy, which included having daily meetings with her. During a couple of these daily meetings, Lucy mentioned being very involved with her church and even asked me if I would volunteer at the daycare at her church since she knows I had been a nanny in the past. I politely declined. Around a week after that, Lucy wanted to start a book club with her, myself and the other sales new sales rep on…


I (24F) was hired as a sales rep at a large corporate company around two months ago. In my hiring interview with my now boss, Lucy, (52F) I was asked what my religion is. I answered honestly that I indetify as a Christian, but that I'm not very active with the church these days. Lucy told me she is a practicing Christian as well. After training, myself and another new sales rep began reporting directly to Lucy, which included having daily meetings with her.

During a couple of these daily meetings, Lucy mentioned being very involved with her church and even asked me if I would volunteer at the daycare at her church since she knows I had been a nanny in the past. I politely declined. Around a week after that, Lucy wanted to start a book club with her, myself and the other sales new sales rep on our team, Josh (24M). She specified that the books each of us chose needed to be sales or business oriented self help books, but then followed that up by saying, “Regardless of our book club choices, the Bible is always the most important book.” Then she proceeded to ask Josh and I how often we read the Bible, to which we both answered “Not that often”. In return, Lucy told us both that we needed to start reading the Bible every day in order to have a more effecient work ethic and fruitful personal life.

Afterwards, Josh and I talked about how her statements were weird and seemed out of place during a business meeting, but decided to brush it off. However, since then, Lucy continues to mention her religion in our business meetings, and this morning, she even sent Josh and I a bible verse in our work group chat. This behavior wouldn't normally bother me, except for I am getting the feeling that Lucy believes if we do not read the Bible and constantly practice our faith, we are not considered a good employee. I don't think religion has any correlation to how well I perform my job. Should I report Lucy to HR for this behavior or should I just let it slide? Not really sure what to do here.

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