re: #119 Bubblehead II

>hey KT!

Response down stairs. Care to respond?

This?

The point KT seems to be (willingly) missing is that if an employee, regardless of their ranking in the company makes a statement, politically (and that donation was a political statement) or other wise that negatively reflects on the company, said company can term their ass.

It’s one of the great joys of working in an employment at will/right to work State.

Chances are that there was a clause buried in his contract that covered a situation such as this.

It’s one of the reasons I don’t get too involved in many of the discussions here and in general keep a low profile on social networking sites.

He fucked up, made a political statement (donation) that embarrassed the company and then doubled down and got canned as a result. Tuff Shit, Next case.

The company seemed fine with his performance and qualifications. Left to their own devices they would have kept him as CEO. What I object to is the outside pressure to coerce the company. They never fired him, he stepped down on his own.
Let’s try a thought experiment: If he had kept his job and kept his politics in his private life as he’s done in the past. The company would continue to offer benefits to same sex employees and maintained an inclusive workplace. He was very good at what he does as CEO and makes the company an extra billion dollars a year. The company expands, hires more employees (many of them in same sex relationships) and offers more generous benefits. Employees pay for adoptions, have kids, send them to college. BUT he maintains his private views and donates $1,000 every decade to an anti-gay political cause?
Does he do greater good being the head of a successful inclusive business? Are those gay employees better off with him gone?
My conclusion is this has done nothing to change his mind or his heart. It creates an atmosphere of fear and justifies the paranoia of conservatives about what a progressive future will be like. Coercing people’s behavior through fear and intimidation doesn’t usually work out well historically.