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As an aside I have three female employees who not only voted for Trump [View all]
PCIntern
Oct 2017
OP
Don't worry, I'm sure they are not bright enough to know their classical music. Even one that famous
kerry-is-my-prez
Oct 2017
#35
Its not nice to do that but I don't think she took advantage of "superior" position.
LiberalLovinLug
Oct 2017
#283
There's a certain expectation in a work environment and being taunted for political opinion is wrong
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#4
He is clear on his political stance. He understand theirs. He called them out and taunted.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#14
It is inappropriate for a work environment. That simple. I don't understand why you do not get that
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#20
Just like sexually harassing employee is wrong. Taunting employees making environment uncomfortable
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#55
I figured you'd go there. OP didn't sexually harass them. He whistled a song.
emulatorloo
Oct 2017
#85
What employer is going to allow this environment and call himself professional?
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#90
I might agree with you, but I find your claim that this is equivalent to sexual harassment
emulatorloo
Oct 2017
#94
I didn't say it was equivalent. You did. Like harassment of any kind, it is wrong.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#97
It is not equating it the same level, but equating harassment as wrong. We get sexual harassment is
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#107
I have zero tolerance for false equivalencies, especially when the end result is trivializing sexual
emulatorloo
Oct 2017
#112
I have zero tolerance for people with an agenda only hearing what they want to hear,
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#118
Harassing sexually, bad. Harassing in other manners, good. Ok. I was taught differently.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#133
I didn't not say sexual harassment was equal to this type harassment either. Doesn't seem to matter
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#170
A little taste of your own medicine, perhaps? Hyperbole is apparently fine when yr using it against
emulatorloo
Oct 2017
#261
So now you're insinuating I'm in favor of threatening and abusive work environments?
emulatorloo
Oct 2017
#268
No. I am stating my position as an employer. Do keep playing the game. I see you doing it thru out
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#274
I had a genuinely abusive boss. Poster claiming whistling a song is the same as sexual harassment
emulatorloo
Oct 2017
#264
I am so sorry you had to go through that. That you were subjected to that makes us all here angry.
emulatorloo
Oct 2017
#267
Got caught up in his own OTT hyperbolic nonsense, now he's trapped in it and is super defensive
emulatorloo
Oct 2017
#153
I just knew someone would be upset about this...they are lucky he didn't fire them for being so
adigal
Oct 2017
#167
So, you would fire someone with differing political views, or because you told them not to discuss
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#174
I'm being somewhat snarky, but really, I wouldn't want such stupid women who can't think critically
adigal
Oct 2017
#177
As an owner, I feel that tone I set is about creating a positive environment that will serve
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#183
Personally I made it a policy for myself to never discuss religion, politics or any hot button issue
Kaleva
Oct 2017
#25
When living in a fucking red state, it is a matter of eating or not. Wow.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#74
Right. It makes work really lousy, right? As Democrats, we expect and work hard for more.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#176
I do not believe any employee should have to live that way. I have worked in red most all my life
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#190
He took advantage of power and position to taunt employees. I am astounded.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#76
I can't believe you're being so rigid about this, when it's clear he was being *chipper*
BlancheSplanchnik
Oct 2017
#157
He knew what he was doing. They knew what he was doing. I have never gotten this pretending stuff.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#194
I think you do get the "pretending stuff." I think you get it very, very well indeed.
LanternWaste
Oct 2017
#240
Being professional and a comfortable environment for all employees is being a snowflake?
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#93
Then as an employER it is his responsibility to address the employees not being professional
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#100
I agree. He didn't even mention politics. Just asked them if they were okay. This is flat out loony.
octoberlib
Oct 2017
#152
Ask yourself why you think anyone would even recognize the whistled Chopin? I sure wouldn't. n/t
pnwmom
Oct 2017
#149
And how would you expect them to prove his intent? All they would even know is that
pnwmom
Oct 2017
#154
On a message board they almost certainly don't read, using a screen name they won't recognize. nt
pnwmom
Oct 2017
#166
I was taught how to be a manager, that served me well as an owner, from an excellent mentor.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#193
Exactly. This is what being a manager is. I would handle it exactly the same way.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#198
You behave inappropriately and people didn't pat you on the back for it. Then you cuss them out.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#22
Employers have a responsibility. If this happened to a Dem, from a Repub
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#57
Doesn't make him right. What would happen if friends gently told him, wrong.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#78
I have worked in workplaces where people got away with nasty political comments.
cwydro
Oct 2017
#291
I think if it wasn't ok to do then you wouldn't of done it. I like how everybody
Kirk Lover
Oct 2017
#30
Managers are the responsible party. Tis their job and an hostile environment falls on owner or
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#309
As a former employer, you are right. If they speak out and continue to do so, If they were to be
Jim Beard
Oct 2017
#36
To all the naysayers, from me: Jebus, people, lighten up. You act like you never met PCIntern before
Hekate
Oct 2017
#28
Sounds like the few employees themselves created an "uncomfortable" atmosphere for everyone else
Hekate
Oct 2017
#65
Reading down the thread, are you as amazed as I am with the complicity? We wonder how Republicans
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#80
I have not met him, but I do know when a boss taunted me day after election, it made me physically
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#72
Go back and read the OP. You are spewing nonsense based on your personal trigger.
Hekate
Oct 2017
#163
I disagree with you. I think the OP makes his intent clear addressing the employees and what
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#165
There has been a large portion of women who voted against themselves in my town
Jim Beard
Oct 2017
#45
PCIntern says he's been taunted and lectured by the three for close to a year now
Kaleva
Oct 2017
#50
No. What do you do as an employer? Sit there ass down and tell them no politics,
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#87
He bragged about making the environment uncomfortable for his employees.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#111
This was harassment in a work environment. If embellished, then we were all played.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#123
A friend of mine was actually forced out of her job due to political differences.
Lisa0825
Oct 2017
#132
I didn't talk politics or religion or discuss hot button issues at work or with my family.
Kaleva
Oct 2017
#119
I equally cannot believe a single Dem would encourage an hostile work environment for employees.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#104
Someone I went to grade school with just posted this from Trey Gowdy's Facebook.
greatauntoftriplets
Oct 2017
#99
Republicans do that. We all need to stick together whether counter to our core beliefs. Like a safe
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#136
I would not treat my employees this way. I feel a greater responsibility to them. That simple.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#146
I am ashamed of every single one of you who breathlessly stepped up to condemn this man.
mreilly
Oct 2017
#156
I love this! I can see being shocked, but it seems they knew in their hearts that he was guilty...
C Moon
Oct 2017
#188
Sex was the other one. I was thinking earlier today, and had religion and politics.
Mediumsizedhand
Oct 2017
#201
I think you should let events take their course. A time will come when most people who voted Trump
Doodley
Oct 2017
#228
Now that you mention it, some of the trumpets at work were unusually manic....
lindysalsagal
Oct 2017
#231
You can always reassure them it's really not so bad. All his friends will be in prison, too.
Vinca
Oct 2017
#237
Very unprofessional behavior. HR should whack your hand, at the very least. n/t
MrModerate
Oct 2017
#244
I retired recently from a hospital that has a religious affiliation. During the Obama years,
japple
Oct 2017
#293
You know, I'd like to take this opportunity to respectfully remind everyone,
PatrickforO
Oct 2017
#302