Pushy Woman Buys Teenage Coworker a Bible As A Hint That They Should Convert

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    Font - AITA for getting a coworker fired over a secret santa gift?
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    Font - Font - Hello again! The people I know have been spilt on this so id like more unbiased viewpoint For context I am jewish and work in retail, our shop is pretty small and I'm sure all of my coworkers know my religion as I'm pretty open about it and answer the many questions they have around the holidays. While
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    Font - I'm not christian I still like giving gifts and participating in secret santa. A newer coworker (has been working there for abt 4 months) is a very religious christian when she found out I was gonna participate in secret santa she started asking me if I was gonna convert, everytime she asked this I laughed it off and said no. I thought this was kind of annoying
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    Font - but whatever not a huge deal, she eventually backed off or so I thought. When we all opened our gifts I opened mine to find a bible, a small framed picture of jesus and a pamphlet for a local church's youth group. I knew it was from my new coworker before she even said
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    Font - anything. She could tell I was upset when I opened it and started to talk abt how it was 'obvious' I wanted to convert to christianity because I was celebrating christmas and she was 'just giving me the push I needed', this 'gift' very much offended me but I tried to stay calm I told her that she was wrong and could not accept her gift and gave it back to her. Which
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    Font - made her cry, and she told me that she just wanted to save me. After this mess my boss pulled me aside. He told that her behavior would not be tolerated and asked me what I wanted him to do about it. I told him that I didnt know but felt uncomfortable working on the same shift as her anymore. He said he understood and my next shift I
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    Font - found out he fired her. A lot of my coworkers were pissed, she was generally pretty nice and they liked her. They told me I was sensitive and i ruined her christmas for a stupid reason. Most of my friends and some of my coworkers are on my side but theyre probably biased. AITA?
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    Font - EDIT: Thank you all for the responses. To add a little more context, I didnt think my boss would fire her and didnt tell him not to because of that. I only work at this job part time and as I'm 17 I'm only scheduled a couple times a week, and most of my coworkers including this one are much older than me.
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    Font - ComprehensiveBand586 · 3 hr. ago Asshole Enthusiast [9] What she did was offensive and wrong. She disrespected your beliefs. She disrespected you. You'd already told her no repeatedly but she refused to listen. Your coworkers weren't the one being disrespected. You didn't ruin her Christmas. She brought this on herself. NTA 7.2k Reply Share •..

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