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This is very common. I have been solicited to contribute to PACs at multiple employers. At each employer everyone has understood the career consequences of not

by tssva 11y ago

This is very common. I have been solicited to contribute to PACs at multiple employers. At each employer everyone has understood the career consequences of not contributing. No threat was needed. The law should really require some sort of firewall where corporate management can not know who has or hasn't contributed.

gherkin0 11y ago
> The law should really require some sort of firewall where corporate management can not know who has or hasn't contributed. Yeah. It's my understanding that similar issues are what led to the secret ballot.
snowwrestler 11y ago
I have worked at some very politically charged places, where I was solicited for PAC donations, and declined. It had no effect on my career. And it makes no sense that employers would even want to retaliate. All PACs want from employees is money, and individual donors are limited to $5,000/year. Anyone who can afford to donate $5,000, would probably cost more than $5,000 to replace, in recruiting, training, and lost productivity.
- harry8 11y ago
  I'm genuinely pleased /you/ haven't been burned by it. You know sometimes people think those who disagree with them must be stupid? You know how not everyone being paid the same wage is actually worth the same to the business? You know how managers want to lose the "dead wood." You know how we see firing as a part of corporate culture and it comes up here often. "If you aren't willing to fight to keep them you should fire them." Optimal staff turnover ratios that managers are judged on etc. That. "I just don't think you're really committed to the goals and ideals of Disney corporation and would be better suited working elsewhere."
  - snowwrestler 11y ago
    Disney has 185,000 employees. Their PAC received contributions over $200 from 144 people in the 2014. If they're going to use PAC contributions to pick employees to keep, they're going to have a hard time. https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.php?cycle=2014&cmte=C00197749 https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.php?cycle=2014&cmt...

by tssva 11y ago

gherkin0 11y ago

> The law should really require some sort of firewall where corporate management can not know who has or hasn't contributed. Yeah. It's my understanding that similar issues are what led to the secret ballot.

snowwrestler 11y ago

I have worked at some very politically charged places, where I was solicited for PAC donations, and declined. It had no effect on my career. And it makes no sense that employers would even want to retaliate. All PACs want from employees is money, and individual donors are limited to $5,000/year. Anyone who can afford to donate $5,000, would probably cost more than $5,000 to replace, in recruiting, training, and lost productivity.

harry8 11y ago
I'm genuinely pleased /you/ haven't been burned by it. You know sometimes people think those who disagree with them must be stupid? You know how not everyone being paid the same wage is actually worth the same to the business? You know how managers want to lose the "dead wood." You know how we see firing as a part of corporate culture and it comes up here often. "If you aren't willing to fight to keep them you should fire them." Optimal staff turnover ratios that managers are judged on etc. That. "I just don't think you're really committed to the goals and ideals of Disney corporation and would be better suited working elsewhere."
- snowwrestler 11y ago
  Disney has 185,000 employees. Their PAC received contributions over $200 from 144 people in the 2014. If they're going to use PAC contributions to pick employees to keep, they're going to have a hard time. https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.php?cycle=2014&cmte=C00197749 https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.php?cycle=2014&cmt...