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davsand

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82. Telling employees how to vote--that cannot sit right with anybody!
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 09:22 AM
Oct 2012

I can't imagine that anybody is gonna be ok with having the boss tell you how you should vote. I've had it happen in my own life--but my job is political so I am not amazed by it. As it was, the one time they sent somebody in to my office to try and lean on me for an endorsement I got a wee bit direct with him then invited him to leave. I'm not for sale, neither is my support.

If I was somebody working private sector and I felt like my job security rested on voting a specific way I'd feel incredibly angry about that. I'd for sure feel that in order to protect my job--when they are not easy to find--I'd have to think long and hard about how I was gonna vote. In reality, the boss has no way to know how you vote once you get into that voting booth, but that is not something a lot of people are gonna stop to think about if they are faced with that situation.

It's a bad thing to face, and if anything, it does more to illustrate just HOW corrupted and evil some of these folks are. I saw the article last night where they were talking about Romney being ON TAPE(!) talking about leaning on employees to vote a certain way. Pure corruption of the system, IMO.


Laura

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