Lay off employees out of pique over how the Presidential election pans out.
v: Close the non-profitable business? Yes, he can and you would do the same.
Riiight. Siegel's business was soooo unprofitable he decided to build himself the biggest house in America.
This is not just a matter of a business going bad and the boss having to close shop. The fact that you're carefully phrasing your answer as though it were indicates you know you don't have a leg to stand on.
This is a case of an employer announcing to his employees, shortly before the election, that the election of Obama as president will so surely mean he'll have to go out of business that he has plans to lay off a good portion of his workforce if Obama wins. In short, he wants his employees to walk into the voting booth thinking, not about what Obama will do for them -- but about what their boss will do TO them if he's upset by an Obama win.
v: Yes, he can and you would do the same.
No, actually, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't send out a mass memo to my workers saying, essentially, "elect Romney or else!"
v: 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.
Now you're trying for the faux naivete bit. "Oh mercy sakes," (says Shirley Temple, waving her lollipop for emphasis) "no boss would be stoopit enough to fire people for the way they vote! And anyone who gets fired by such a stoopit boss should be glad they aren't working for that boss any more."
Give us a break. Before it was illegal, bosses in the past were notorious for marching their workers down to the polls to vote the way the boss wanted them to. Give them the power to do this, and they'll do it again, and few employees struggling to meet mortgage payments, or medical bills, or just put food on the table are going to risk unemployment in a bad job market for the sake of not working for such a "stoopit" boss.
As things stand now, some employers are already interpreting Citizens United as license for forcing their workers to campaign for given political candidates. The recent case where coal miners were made by their boss to take part in a photo-op with Mitt Romney (without pay, incidentally) is just one example of this.
v: 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.
...and tell them that their job depends on the outcome of the election because the boss has decided to do layoffs if Obama is elected.
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v: Can do what exactly?
Lay off employees out of pique over how the Presidential election pans out.
v: Close the non-profitable business? Yes, he can and you would do the same.
Riiight. Siegel's business was soooo unprofitable he decided to build himself the biggest house in America.
This is not just a matter of a business going bad and the boss having to close shop. The fact that you're carefully phrasing your answer as though it were indicates you know you don't have a leg to stand on.
This is a case of an employer announcing to his employees, shortly before the election, that the election of Obama as president will so surely mean he'll have to go out of business that he has plans to lay off a good portion of his workforce if Obama wins. In short, he wants his employees to walk into the voting booth thinking, not about what Obama will do for them -- but about what their boss will do TO them if he's upset by an Obama win.
v: Yes, he can and you would do the same.
No, actually, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't send out a mass memo to my workers saying, essentially, "elect Romney or else!"
v: 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.
Now you're trying for the faux naivete bit. "Oh mercy sakes," (says Shirley Temple, waving her lollipop for emphasis) "no boss would be stoopit enough to fire people for the way they vote! And anyone who gets fired by such a stoopit boss should be glad they aren't working for that boss any more."
Give us a break. Before it was illegal, bosses in the past were notorious for marching their workers down to the polls to vote the way the boss wanted them to. Give them the power to do this, and they'll do it again, and few employees struggling to meet mortgage payments, or medical bills, or just put food on the table are going to risk unemployment in a bad job market for the sake of not working for such a "stoopit" boss.
As things stand now, some employers are already interpreting Citizens United as license for forcing their workers to campaign for given political candidates. The recent case where coal miners were made by their boss to take part in a photo-op with Mitt Romney (without pay, incidentally) is just one example of this.
v: 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.
...and tell them that their job depends on the outcome of the election because the boss has decided to do layoffs if Obama is elected.