quellycatface: What you have done with the managers in the supermarket is to open up a dialog about the fairness of shunning. Awarness is another word that appears whenever a "whistleblower" or "protestor" is trying to make a point. In addition, the concept of "Fairness" begins to be evaluated by the audience to whom the protest is directed. Your actions have brought up what you consider to be unfair actions to an audience that can do something about it. For those reasons I have to encourage you to keep up the good work.
Let me try to encourage you even more with an experience. My son was disfellowshipped the same night I was. He took no nonsense from the "glorious ones" who needed their ego's left intake. My son spoke to them "without any approval for any of their nonsense". They had a choice; 1) Do the right thing or 2) Continue to be complicit with the wrongdoing. They chose badly and opted for choice 2. Now to the actual experience of my daughter in law. She works with several J.W.s . Around 6 or so people including a relative. Most of the time she works from home, but needs to go to the main office every so often. She is just an adorable person who everyone has to like. Well, just because her husband was announced as "no longer one of Jehovah's Witnesses" her treatment at work changed. She was actually being hated and bullied by J.W.s at work. The unfairness reached a low point when her witness superviser threatened her with punishment because she was 5 miniutes late coming in. This statement had nothing to do with reality, it is easy to identify as harassment brought on by what happened to her husband. Let me explain further.
As the events became noticeable to the owners of the company they approached my daughter in law. They could not understand the behavior they were seeing for themselves. Naturally, they took her aside and asked her to explain to them why her former "close friends" were now treating her so badly. She expained the situation with her husband. She explained the pressure this situation at work was causing her. Also, she informed them of the threat her J.W. supervisor made. The owners responded by specifically telling her that what her supervisor said is not true and she is not to worry about that.
So, look what happened in your case and my daughter in laws. Shunning practices of witnesses have affecting business managers and owners. On an individual basis awareness of injustice has occured. Maybe even labor laws could be used to persue compensation from the injustice. Are these business people entitled to discipline their employes? My daughter in law is so sweet that the thought of taking legal actions has not even occured to her. I am proud of her to have the courage to make her story known to the owners of the company she works for. She has been rewarded by knowing the bullying will not be tolerated toward her. At work she now has a refuge from the unjust treatment from former friends and family. Remember, she is not even disfellowshipped.
Now your experience and my daughters in laws experience have made a contribution to exposing the unchristian interpretation of disfellowshipping. I would say the vast majority of posters here would gladly make the public aware of this Watchtower madness. Perhaps the society will be best exposed by the death of a thousand cuts. People like you and my daugthter in law communicating with people when they can. We all can see that sometimes actions are rewarded. Doing nothing is not always the best solution.
Thank you for your actions and sharing your experience.
