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If I had an employee whose job description involved hiring (or providing advice about hiring) a high-level addition to our company, and said employee advised th
by plg 10y ago
If I had an employee whose job description involved hiring (or providing advice about hiring) a high-level addition to our company, and said employee advised that we should hire an individual who is widely known to be:
- racist
- erratic, abusive, and prone to fits of rage
- a real threat to the safety of women, minorities, and immigrants
- shows little respect for the Constitution, the Republic, or for human decency
I would conclude that my employee has bad judgement. Very bad judgement. I would fire said employee immediately. I would also likely shun said employee on a personal level.
I don't think people get a pass on this one just because this decision is being made in the context of politics.
- riot504 10y agoEverything you listed in why people support Trump over Clinton. They view the following: - erratic, abusive, and prone to fits of rage - a real threat to the safety of women, minorities, and immigrants - shows little respect for the Constitution, the Republic, or for human decency As major faults of Clinton.
- menacingly 10y agoThis is exactly the kind of "my politics are so certain they aren't even politics anymore" manipulation that I'm seeing everywhere. Movements don't exist in a vacuum. A massive trend like roughly half the country making a choice you don't agree with is pressing back against _something_, and one of the things it's pressing back against is attitudes like this.
- plg 10y agobut since when is racist, bragging-about-sexual-assualt-against-women, anti-muslim, "politics"? I'm critical of supporters of Trump not because of his (Trump's) politics but because of his personal characteristics. If I was interviewing someone for a job at my company, and I saw a video of them bragging about how they like to sexually assault women, I would not hire that person. No matter how bad-ass a coder he/she was. Would you?
- gjolund 10y agoSo just to clarify. Trump supporter = racist is now a fact?
- plg 10y agoI never said trump supporters are racist. I just said trump supporters are supporting a racist. And someone who likes to brag that they sexually assault women. Would you hire a person for your company who brags about sexually assaulting women? I wouldn't.
- gjolund 10y agoWould you hire someone who brags about voting for trump?
- DanBC 10y agoWhere do they do the bragging?
- gjolund 10y agoDoes it matter?
- DanBC 10y agoYes. Someone bragging outside a work environment about who they support is fine. Someone bragging inside a work environment is less fine. Someone bragging about supporting Trump, in front of Mexican colleagues is even less fine.
- gjolund 10y agoThanks for making my point for me. That is called discrimination btw.