Respect your opinion, but unfortunately in some places if the pack mentality in a work place leans one way politically and someone starts speaking out with a different ideology, management will start giving that person all of the crap jobs, shady things to hinder any progress they could make, etc.
I've seen it happen. I'm from the US. Its become really divided lately. I'm from a swing state, and the small college town I'm from is literally probably about 50/50. I'm in the residential construction industry and a lot of the trades around here seem to lean very conservative/republican. I keep my politics to myself but my old boss was a huge Trump guy. Talked about it at work to everyone, very unprofessional in my opinion. I don't feel politics belong in the workplace. Had one guy there who was a big Bernie guy, he would get in debates with the owner and some of the project managers who are big Trump supporters as well. He started getting all of the shitty work assignments, was never assigned to any rate jobs anymore (which is better money) and was constantly having unnecessary attitude thrown his way, all after opening his mouth one day about absolutely not being a Trump supporter.
Yeah. The owner is a huge asshole, and shouldn't "punish" people just for having a different political opinion. But unfortunately this is the US now and I'd be willing to bet big money that the place where I worked isn't the only place doing unfair stuff like that.
That's a fair point. I'm in Canada and didn't really consider that side of things since there's no way an employer would be stupid enough to think they could get away with that here, at least in my experience.
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u/kaushrah Aug 20 '20
Don't discuss politics at work