If you were being paid $1,000,000 or more per year on television,

[OLDMDDEM]

and you are a Democrat, or Republican, would you bow to your boss if he/she told you that you had to only say good things about the Musk/Trump presidency?

[LakeArenal]

1. I couldn't say good things about them for any amount of money.

So I would lose that job.

[OLDMDDEM]

5. I would lose that job also. For many years, my "blood" family were all Republicans, therefore, I was raised as

a Republican. I saw the sickening side of them and switched to being a Democrat. I cannot understand why someone would sell their soul to simply earn a living. My morals are higher than that.

[LakeArenal]

16. I was fired twice due to politics. Not because I flaunted it. Because wouldn't agree.

Of course coached as a management reorganization.

[MineralMan]

2. Well, I wouldn't, and that's probably why I don't have a job like that.

Or any job during my adult life where some company paid me to show up and work. Maintaining my independence is why I started being self-employed in 1974.

[Happy Hoosier]

3. If I made that kind of money....

I'd have enough in my various accounts to not have to work at all unless I wanted too.

I guess it depends on what kind of lifestyle you want. I'm content with a comfy upper-middle class life, so a few million bucks in the bank would be able to fund my needs in perpetuity if they needed to.

[uponit7771]

18. THIS !!!

[Mariana]

4. If you're being paid $1,000,000 or more per year on television

you are a performer. You're playing a role. You follow the script and you play your character as directed.

[OLDMDDEM]

7. So, you would sell out to your boss even though you disagree with what he wants you to do. The DOJ had many

employees that resigned because they would not follow Emil Bove's direct order. They did the right thing.

[Mariana]

9. They are hired to be performers.

If you don't want to do that, you wouldn't take that kind of job in the first place.

So, you would sell out to your boss even though you disagree with what he wants you to do.

And lay off with the personal attack, please. I don't have that kind of job because I wouldn't like doing that.

[OLDMDDEM]

12. Your last sentence is how I feel also. Sorry, if I was "personally attacking" you. It wasn't meant that way.

[Passages]

6. Corporate media protects big business, those people have been compromised for a long while.

They seem fine with deceiving the public through omission.


Would they pander directly to Trump as you suggest? I don't know, I hope it won't be that blatant, but it might.

[walkingman]

8. That is a really good question. I think it would depend on my financial well-being/obligations.

Also, if you were making that much, are there opportunities elsewhere?

Before I retired, I tolerated a lot of stuff I didn't agree with in my work and bit my lip because I needed the job and wanted the pension.

[BOSSHOG]

10. NO. Integrity is priceless.

[OLDMDDEM]

11. Bravo. I agree.

[sop]

13. Most employees must follow (legal) orders from their managers, or be fired for insubordination.

It's easy to tell your boss "Take this job and stuff it!" when you're only making minimum wage. There's a lot more at stake when you're making $1M.

[OLDMDDEM]

15. That's why I asked.

[DeepWinter]

14. Depends

My current self, financially secure, would not. No financial pain point.

My much younger self, yes in a heartbeat. There were times the only money I had was enough for the next meal.

I don't think the financial angle is unusual in the slightest. A lot of people voted for Trump because the economy sucked but the Democrats were telling them it was just fine. People are heavily motivated by their checkbook, or lack of what's in it. Politics gets thrown aside.

[OLDMDDEM]

17. I'm 77 years old and retired. When I interviewed for jobs, I was asked what to expect out of me and my work.

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My answer was always, if you don't want to hear it, don't ask about it. I always told the truth. If he didn't want to hear it, that is too bad. I have been fired a few times for that attitude but I always felt I never just said something to please the boss.

[DFW]

19. I'd get away with disobeying as long as I could before being fired.

Even a couple of paychecks at that level would be fun!

Besides, the first couple of times of getting called to the corner office for a dressing down, I’d say, “oh, you were being serious? I didn’t think I could away with saying that kind of nonsense even on the Cartoon Channel, so I thought you were joking! No one can say that kind of garbage with a straight face for very long, you know.”

[OLDMDDEM]

21. Great answer.

[SheltieLover]

20. Nope