"A time comes when silence is betrayal."
This is classical us vs them rhetoric, and I don't like to be dragged into this trap, especially at a company level.
This is classical us vs them rhetoric, and I don't like to be dragged into this trap, especially at a company level.
Really this whole controversy is asking for their political views to be the only ones discussed at work, what happens when someone from a more conservative background or country voices their views?
IMO really don’t want to talk politics at work it will just lead to problems. Also SJW is not a protected class.
I strongly agree with Basecamp here.
Gauging from votes, most people in this thread seem to see themselves more as mercenaries with no personal investment in their workplace (or they are not negatively affected by their lacking work culture, uh, privilege) than anything else, and that's fine, but don't assume someone wouldn't find personal fulfillment in making their workplace better.
This is discrimination and this is obviously illegal, but this is a side effect of talking politics at work.
"Alice, pick up the ticket for Bob." "No, Bob voted for X!" Then, sometime later, Alice is fined and/or sent to jail.
The short answer is that I pick my workplace based on culture. I have to. I am a very obvious queer looking person, so about half to a third of my interviews go at least slightly sour as soon as they start. It's a good filter in a way.
The job I had while coming out turned out not to be so great, lots of rumors and hot takes and bad jokes about me going around. I don't need that sort of constant negativity in my life.
(Also, I'm not exactly sure how I'd define "the other side", since I'm not in the US. It's more subtle here.)
That does sound like it, to be honest. Some people seek fulfillment by changing their workplaces after their ideals, other people want to get stuff done.
I find it amazing that they launch new products despite having people who seem to be professional issue-seekers and problem-finders. I've worked along side similar people while working with unions and it was so unbelievably exhausting how slow they were in literally everything.