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Company exec: you are fired if Obama wins!

poweRob said:
Threatening people over their vote or even just fear-mongering people's livelihoods over their vote. That is incredibly unethical.
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Apparently they have not invented the TV where you live because that is what every campaign does. EVERY single one.
 
Fisher said:
Apparently they have not invented the TV where you live because that is what every campaign does. EVERY single one.
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Some random politician holds no authoritative position over people quite like their boss does. A politician who does it is merely hitting you in your tv... your boss doing it is pretty much hitting you where you live and how you live. That's not even comparable.
 
poweRob said:
Some random politician holds no authoritative position over people quite like their boss does. A politician who does it is merely hitting you in your tv... your boss doing it is pretty much hitting you where you live and how you live. That's not even comparable.
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Restating that it is unethical still does not tell me why you think it is so. It isn't like the boss will know unless you are the only voter in your precinct/ward. With a good many people it would backfire and they would go the other way out of spite.
 
Fisher said:
Restating that it is unethical still does not tell me why you think it is so. It isn't like the boss will know unless you are the only voter in your precinct/ward. With a good many people it would backfire and they would go the other way out of spite.
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It's unethical for a person in a position of authority directly over you to try in any way to compromise your vote. Whether or not they can enforce it is beside the point that trying to assert themselves in that manner from a position of authority over someone... that is disgustingly unethical.
 
poweRob said:
It's unethical for a person in a position of authority directly over you to try in any way to compromise your vote. Whether or not they can enforce it is beside the point that trying to assert themselves in that manner from a position of authority over someone... that is disgustingly unethical.
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Since Freedom of Speech is part of my ethics and democracy invites people to exercise their rights publicly, I will have to disagree with you. If somebody wanted to say FU to them I'd support their right to do that as well.
 
Fisher said:
Since Freedom of Speech is part of my ethics and democracy invites people to exercise their rights publicly, I will have to disagree with you. If somebody wanted to say FU to them I'd support their right to do that as well.
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So your ethics are defined soley by legality? You know that's not true. It's only convenient when trying to win a debate. I'm sure you have much more reliable and strict standards for ethics than what a court tells you to have.
 
I'm with Rob on this one. Using your influence as an employer over an employee for the purpose of getting votes for "your" candidate is highly unethical.
 
One of the companies who threatened to fire their employees pretty much confessed how Romney-styled vulture capitalism works for our economy:


Will the US Presidential election directly impact your future jobs at ASG? Please read below.

To all ASG employees,

I am already heavily involved in considering options that make our independence go away, and with that all of our lives would change forever.

... Remember, in the world of business, companies are consolidators or they get consolidated; so far ASG has been a consolidator, completing over 60 acquisitions in our 26 year history. When we buy a company, we eliminate about 60 percent of the salaries of the employees of that company. If we lose our independence and get consolidated, the same thing would happen to ASG’s employees.

link...​
 
poweRob said:
Interesting... you don't care about ethics if you can simply pull up a "but...but.. but they do it to"? That's how your ethics roll?
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No. It appears thats how YOURS do since unions have been doing this for decades and we havent heard a peep from you.
 
OpportunityCost said:
No. It appears thats how YOURS do since unions have been doing this for decades and we havent heard a peep from you.
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rigggght. You are making the case that someone's boss threatening an employee's job is the same as a union doing what exactly?
 
poweRob said:
rigggght. You are making the case that someone's boss threatening an employee's job is the same as a union doing what exactly?
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Unions claim that they and their political allies are the only ones fighting for their jobs. They claim it endlessly.
 
Just another person trying to turn his employees against Obama for his own gain. A lot of business leaders do this and know that raising the taxes doesn't really take that much of the profits.
 
OpportunityCost said:
Unions claim that they and their political allies are the only ones fighting for their jobs. They claim it endlessly.
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Which is the same as a boss threatening your job based on your vote how?
 
I am putting this question forth here because I don't see any forum for asking about a business related political issue and it had somewhat to do with the company firing people idea in this thread. All I have to say is why don't they just cut a million from the CEO's salary when they can't afford to pay all their employees? After all, he must be mismanaging the company if they can't afford to keep their employees and the million should be plenty to cover cost of employing them?
I guess it depends on if that would be legal, but then I would say fire the guy and get someone who will work for cheaper....
 
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