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>"Silicon Valley" is a workplace, and it's generally considered rude to bring your political views into the workplace. In theory, yes, but in practice it's onl
by Cookingboy 9y ago
>"Silicon Valley" is a workplace, and it's generally considered rude to bring your political views into the workplace.
In theory, yes, but in practice it's only considered "rude" when you bring unpopular political views into the workplace. In a partisan locale such as SV people openly talk about the popular political view at work, all the time.
A Googler can go to TGIF Q&A and openly bash Trump/GOP and he'd get sympathetic responses from Larry, if not cheers from the audience (and a bunch of new memegen entries), but I highly doubt the same would be true for someone expressing opposite views.
- cinquemb 9y agoI used to work for a start up in Boston (co-lo'd with a bunch of other startups) a couple years ago, and people would openly talk about politics of the left-wing establishment variety and go around patting each other on the back for it. The stuff rude awakenings are made of…