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milestogo

(16,829 posts)
Sat Nov 16, 2019, 02:33 PM Nov 2019

So what's it been like at your workplace regarding politics?

I haven't heard a word except from one person who I know hates Trump.

On Wednesday I turned on MSNBC in the lunchroom, as Taylor was testifying. Everyone who came in for lunch watched for a while.

But not a word about anything political anywhere else. Not sure if people don't care or they are just being very careful.

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smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
1. Hard to tell. Most people keep their mouths shut.
Sat Nov 16, 2019, 02:41 PM
Nov 2019

I have my ideas about who is on our side and who isn't, but I have often been surprised - both ways. In New York, people would have been much more vocal, but here in the Boston office people are very reluctant to openly express their political views.

Turbineguy

(37,346 posts)
2. Careful
Sat Nov 16, 2019, 02:42 PM
Nov 2019

The wingnuts who talked about killing us have changed the narrative to spread fear that we will kill them.

 

Jewls2

(218 posts)
3. Most of us are democrats so we talk often enough. The two bosses are republicans.
Sat Nov 16, 2019, 02:52 PM
Nov 2019

They say nothing, and we do not say anything in front of them. Neither are politically savvy or aware. So, I have no clue what they think about all this. Only one is a little politically aware. It is mostly me telling them what is up.

mucifer

(23,554 posts)
5. I work for a hospice in a big city so most of my coworkers are liberals.
Sat Nov 16, 2019, 03:22 PM
Nov 2019

And we aren't afraid to talk politics with each other. Obviously, not in front of our patients unless the families bring it up.

Iggo

(47,558 posts)
6. The rich people in my workplace who vote republican have kept their mouths shut.
Sat Nov 16, 2019, 03:57 PM
Nov 2019

The highest-up of the higher-ups had family who worked in the Nixon administration. He's 90-ish and in the fifteen years I've been there, I've never heard him talk politics, and I talk to him every day. (His office is across the hall from mine, and we can see each other if we're both leaning back.)

The low-info voters who vote republican (and the idiots who would be low-info voters if they voted) have stopped bringing up politics around me. They know that I know that they don't know, you know?

Roland99

(53,342 posts)
7. Most everyone I work with (engineers and developers)
Sat Nov 16, 2019, 04:01 PM
Nov 2019

are virulently anti-trump and anti-gop

And that includes most mgmt and creative execs

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