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How would your company have dealt with a "Trump/Pence 2016" laptop sticker? What about a request to get time off to vote? What if someone came to HR and said

How would your company have dealt with a "Trump/Pence 2016" laptop sticker? What about a request to get time off to vote? What if someone came to HR and said they felt they were being treated differently by their boss because they posted a news article that mentioned politics and religion in the team's Slack channel, and they think their boss considered that a sneaky attempt to circumvent your strict "no politics / no religion" rule? Politics are inextricable from most plausible modern workplaces. I'm all for asking employees to try to avoid bringing it up if they can help it, but a "no politics / no religion" rule doesn't guarantee a reduction in "litigation, security issues, and horrible employee productivity."

Volundr 6y ago
Not the OP but: > How would your company have dealt with a "Trump/Pence 2016" laptop sticker? Presumably this would fall under the no politics rule. Remove it. It's a work laptop anyway. >What about a request to get time off to vote? Non-issue. Leaving to vote is not bringing your politics to work. > What if someone came to HR and said they felt they were being treated differently by their boss because they posted a news article that mentioned politics and religion in the team's Slack channel, and they think their boss considered that a sneaky attempt to circumvent your strict "no politics / no religion" rule? Nothing sneaky about it, posting in the teams Slack work be a clear violation of the rule. It's a work Slack channel.
- Simulacra 6y ago
  You also have a legal right to take time off to go vote.
koheripbal 6y ago
I have a feeling that most people offended by a tiny laptop sticker (regardless of which party) are exactly the kinds of employees we wouldn't want to have. If people are focusing on work, these little things go unnoticed. What's great about it is that it's engendered a culture of eye-rolling to people who try to interject their religion or politics, and this has become somewhat self-perpetuating. If someone spammed a political article into a common venue (we don't use slack because it's such a waste of time), then I doubt it would get reported - just ignored. > Politics are inextricable from most plausible modern workplaces. I don't see how you could logically make this argument. Our business plan and financial goals have zero to do with the current political landscape.
astura 6y ago
Why would you be posting non-work related news articles in work's slack channel? That is for work related discussion!

Volundr 6y ago

Not the OP but: > How would your company have dealt with a "Trump/Pence 2016" laptop sticker? Presumably this would fall under the no politics rule. Remove it. It's a work laptop anyway. >What about a request to get time off to vote? Non-issue. Leaving to vote is not bringing your politics to work. > What if someone came to HR and said they felt they were being treated differently by their boss because they posted a news article that mentioned politics and religion in the team's Slack channel, and they think their boss considered that a sneaky attempt to circumvent your strict "no politics / no religion" rule? Nothing sneaky about it, posting in the teams Slack work be a clear violation of the rule. It's a work Slack channel.

Simulacra 6y ago
You also have a legal right to take time off to go vote.

koheripbal 6y ago

I have a feeling that most people offended by a tiny laptop sticker (regardless of which party) are exactly the kinds of employees we wouldn't want to have. If people are focusing on work, these little things go unnoticed. What's great about it is that it's engendered a culture of eye-rolling to people who try to interject their religion or politics, and this has become somewhat self-perpetuating. If someone spammed a political article into a common venue (we don't use slack because it's such a waste of time), then I doubt it would get reported - just ignored. > Politics are inextricable from most plausible modern workplaces. I don't see how you could logically make this argument. Our business plan and financial goals have zero to do with the current political landscape.

astura 6y ago

Why would you be posting non-work related news articles in work's slack channel? That is for work related discussion!