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Re:My Google job was tedious and pointless by dragonwriter on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @11:46PM (#15496754)
> I don't think that stuff has any place at work.

Companies are often intensely political; artificially pretending neutrality internally while actively working externally to influence the political landscape to me is more bizarre than being open about politics in the office.

If a corporation actually is solidly neutral and inactive politically in it's external actions, then, sure, the internal environment should reflect that.

> it's insulting to employees who may have an opposite position politically.

I don't see how that's any less true of a company's external political activism.

Re:My Google job was tedious and pointless by belorn on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @12:06AM (#15496820)
If we accept that, should we not also accept religious views in the internal environment? Many religions view unbelievers in a very negative way, and active missionary behavior inside a company would feel very oppressive to those who don't share the same religion as the one being promoted.

Personally I would not work at a place which did so, and would consider reporting it to the anti-discrimination department in my country.

Re:My Google job was tedious and pointless by dragonwriter on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @02:37AM (#15497330)
> If we accept that, should we not also accept religious views in the internal environment?

We (in the US), rather emphatically, do.

(There are some protections against religious discrimination in employment that apply to most employers, but those protections do not extend to prohibiting employers from all internal expression of religious views, or even substantive policy based on religious views. And, in fact, writing additional affirmative protection for employers’ internal expressiom of religious views, even to the extent of making that a basis for exempting them from generally-applicable legal requirements, is a popular trend in the US right now.)

Re:My Google job was tedious and pointless by whatyoucantsay on Sunday October 22, 2017 @03:54PM (#15528595)
Any company whose management leads employees in prayers or urges them to follow a religious doctrine has no place in the civilised world.

Accommodating employees and their religious practices is another matter, within reasonable limits.

Re:My Google job was tedious and pointless by kamaal on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @11:52PM (#15496771)
'Corporation' isn't exactly a living thing that it will have sentiments of its own. People essentially make up the company, and those people have emotions based on how the profit needle and their stake in it moves.

Most Silicon valley companies depend heavily on immigrant talent and resource pool to keep the perpetual billion dollar start ups coming every year.

If your political sentiments are in deep opposition to what brings in your salary, you already have a very broken view of your life in general. And a company executive expressing any sentiment isn't going matter much, if at all.