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I generally agree. Just like a cashier at Chick-fil-a doesn’t necessarily condone the company’s religious and political beliefs. From personal experience, I w

I generally agree. Just like a cashier at Chick-fil-a doesn’t necessarily condone the company’s religious and political beliefs. From personal experience, I work for a big tech company which very publicly says it stands for certain things and the CEO recently has been going around saying a lot of political things. It’s unrelated to the job although it feels like an explicit part of the “company culture”. It doesn’t really affect my day to day work but the whole situation just feels weird. I didn’t sign up for a political party or to espose certain beliefs, I signed up to write code build a tech platform.

nashashmi 7y ago
People have become militarized with activist results like the departure of Brendan Eich. Lines have been blurred. People are making demands sometimes that are unreasonable. Metoo movement in tech caused expulsions of many heads. Even if unrelated to the job. Connections to Jeff Epstein is causing people to lose positions. Political positions of support for Trump is causing customers to take stand against heads. Where do we draw the line between association and belief and job?
- jancsika 7y ago
  > Where do we draw the line between association and belief and job? Line: one's university has constraints in place to prevent donations from Epstein, and one does an end run around them in order to take donations from Epstein.
mason55 7y ago
FWIW this is why job mobility is super important. Both sides of the employee/employer relationship should be relatively unconstrained so that employees can "vote" against bad employer policies. If your employer is out there making political statements or doing political things that you disagree with you should feel empowered to leave and find a new job. If you don't want employers making political statements or taking controversial political stances then vote for policies that encourage labor mobility so that the labor market can be free. Unfortunately there are lots of policies and laws in place that prevent this kind of labor mobility and give the employer a huge amount of power.
- geodel 7y ago
  > Unfortunately there are lots of policies and laws in place that prevent this kind of labor mobility and give the employer a huge amount of power. What are those policies and laws? AFAIK employees can leave with at most 2 week notice and lot of places with just a days' notice.
  - JoeAltmaier 7y ago
    In our state, you can leave at any time. In fact its employers that have a hard time firing employees.

nashashmi 7y ago

People have become militarized with activist results like the departure of Brendan Eich. Lines have been blurred. People are making demands sometimes that are unreasonable. Metoo movement in tech caused expulsions of many heads. Even if unrelated to the job. Connections to Jeff Epstein is causing people to lose positions. Political positions of support for Trump is causing customers to take stand against heads. Where do we draw the line between association and belief and job?

jancsika 7y ago
> Where do we draw the line between association and belief and job? Line: one's university has constraints in place to prevent donations from Epstein, and one does an end run around them in order to take donations from Epstein.

mason55 7y ago

FWIW this is why job mobility is super important. Both sides of the employee/employer relationship should be relatively unconstrained so that employees can "vote" against bad employer policies. If your employer is out there making political statements or doing political things that you disagree with you should feel empowered to leave and find a new job. If you don't want employers making political statements or taking controversial political stances then vote for policies that encourage labor mobility so that the labor market can be free. Unfortunately there are lots of policies and laws in place that prevent this kind of labor mobility and give the employer a huge amount of power.

geodel 7y ago
> Unfortunately there are lots of policies and laws in place that prevent this kind of labor mobility and give the employer a huge amount of power. What are those policies and laws? AFAIK employees can leave with at most 2 week notice and lot of places with just a days' notice.
- JoeAltmaier 7y ago
  In our state, you can leave at any time. In fact its employers that have a hard time firing employees.