Can do what exactly? Close the non-profitable business? Yes, he can and you would do the same. Disclaimer: Telepathic Accounting exercises are no accepted.
You are trying to twist a motivational speech (no matter how stupid) into a threat "vote for XXX or be fired!" That threat assumes the boss knows how employees vote - but he doesn't. Q.E.D.
So the boss is left with few choices for the speech discussed.
1) "Vote for XXX or be fired!" is the most stupid tactics because everyone understands the boss is unable to recover per-employee or per-company voting results. Such a speech is a good sign the boss is an idiot and it's better not to work with this boss anymore.
2) "Vote for XXX because of this and that" or "don't vote for XXX because of..." is a legit tactics that includes reasoning: "I believe that if reelected, Obama raises taxes and increase the number of regulations which is bad for our business and I _may_ have to let all of you go next year". Some items may seem obvious from previous actions of the candidates and my therefore be omitted - this depends on the audience, of course, and such a speech, if overheard and taken out of context, may be easily twisted into a speech type_1.
As for "Whether you agree with me or you agree with President Obama, or whatever your political view, I hope you pass those along to your employees…" - this is a simple call to go and talk to people around you.
Unfortunately, you and those who think alike are pretty good in demonizing businesses and their owners plus splitting the world into "rich" and "poor". Business owner describing the real business needs and problems may be a good counter-action to remind workers that the boss is also a human and the decisions employees make are as important as his own, or, in this situation, maybe even more important.
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Date: 20/10/12 16:28 (UTC)Can do what exactly?
Close the non-profitable business?
Yes, he can and you would do the same.
Disclaimer: Telepathic Accounting exercises are no accepted.
You are trying to twist a motivational speech (no matter how stupid) into a threat "vote for XXX or be fired!"
That threat assumes the boss knows how employees vote - but he doesn't. Q.E.D.
So the boss is left with few choices for the speech discussed.
1) "Vote for XXX or be fired!" is the most stupid tactics because everyone understands the boss is unable to recover per-employee or per-company voting results. Such a speech is a good sign the boss is an idiot and it's better not to work with this boss anymore.
2) "Vote for XXX because of this and that" or "don't vote for XXX because of..." is a legit tactics that includes reasoning: "I believe that if reelected, Obama raises taxes and increase the number of regulations which is bad for our business and I _may_ have to let all of you go next year". Some items may seem obvious from previous actions of the candidates and my therefore be omitted - this depends on the audience, of course, and such a speech, if overheard and taken out of context, may be easily twisted into a speech type_1.
As for "Whether you agree with me or you agree with President Obama, or whatever your political view, I hope you pass those along to your employees…" - this is a simple call to go and talk to people around you.
Unfortunately, you and those who think alike are pretty good in demonizing businesses and their owners plus splitting the world into "rich" and "poor". Business owner describing the real business needs and problems may be a good counter-action to remind workers that the boss is also a human and the decisions employees make are as important as his own, or, in this situation, maybe even more important.