1. A company is a place of business and every company exists to create a product or a service and make enough money in order to produce more products or a better service.
2. I am a professional and I offer my skills, experience and expertise in exchange for money. I might really like the job or not at all, makes no difference because work is to be done.
3. I am not interested in playing a social justice hero or promoting politics of current world affairs at my workplace, nor am I interested in a culture, mentality or values. If I wanted to join a cult I'd join one where they have drugs and naked ladies, not your company.
I am getting sick of people pretending to try and change the world through their jobs when they only speak up as long as their jobs are secure. I see this often in my company that is trying really hard to be as liberal as possible while burning investor money where people keep raising political questions such as doing business with China not understanding that their roles will likely be cut if the company loses those Chinese contracts. Goes without saying topics regarding sex and sexual orientation are always hot, but others such as the Palestinian genocide are frown upon. You can't be selectively X, that just makes you a hypocrite.
I am currently looking for a new job because I refuse to work in an environment where people are more preoccupied with non-work related problems than they are with the actual work itself. We all have interest in moral issues as individuals, but there is a time and place to discuss those issues. A workplace is not it. For the same reason I am removing myself from LinkedIn.
Everybody on the earth wants to make the world a better place. Returning maximum profits isn't part of that (unless you're a shareholder). Companies exist to make money because that's all that we've expected of them. Now people expect more. Talented people are no longer permitted to be assholes because they're too valuable. And it's about time.
> Talented people are no longer permitted to be assholes because they're too valuable.
How is this connected to politics at the workplace? You don't have to choose between a Steve Jobs-style CEO or a company openly declaring most people quitting have a certain skin color. Those are both not desirable imho, and neither need to be a part of the job.
2. I am a professional and I offer my skills, experience and expertise in exchange for money. I might really like the job or not at all, makes no difference because work is to be done.
3. I am not interested in playing a social justice hero or promoting politics of current world affairs at my workplace, nor am I interested in a culture, mentality or values. If I wanted to join a cult I'd join one where they have drugs and naked ladies, not your company.
I am getting sick of people pretending to try and change the world through their jobs when they only speak up as long as their jobs are secure. I see this often in my company that is trying really hard to be as liberal as possible while burning investor money where people keep raising political questions such as doing business with China not understanding that their roles will likely be cut if the company loses those Chinese contracts. Goes without saying topics regarding sex and sexual orientation are always hot, but others such as the Palestinian genocide are frown upon. You can't be selectively X, that just makes you a hypocrite.
I am currently looking for a new job because I refuse to work in an environment where people are more preoccupied with non-work related problems than they are with the actual work itself. We all have interest in moral issues as individuals, but there is a time and place to discuss those issues. A workplace is not it. For the same reason I am removing myself from LinkedIn.