My Pillow In Trouble Financially

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I even think about all of this from an internal perspective. My CEO talks about election stealing and other hot-button stuff in meetings and on work trips. I'm just sitting there like, OMG what are you doing and everybody else is probably loving it. It doesn't hurt the culture (everybody near the top of this company is a straight white dude from rural mountain west). Maybe helps it. I am fine and probably builds trust among the rest of them. I think you gotta consider customers and employees and partners. Like, yeah, some potential customers are going to get turned off by political virtue-signaling, but you're also going to attract the kind of talent you want and more customers within a niche.

I think MyPillow would have maximized profit by associating their brand with the right, but they just went too far.
 
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hog88 said:
I don't consider putting up a flag to be political. I'm fine with donations especially on the local and state level I'm just against being publicly politically active, it opens the business up to trouble.
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It’s a sad place to be where placing a flag is now an overt political statement due to the extreme views from the other side
 
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n_huffhines said:
I even think about all of this from an internal perspective. My CEO talks about election stealing and other hot-button stuff in meetings and on work trips. I'm just sitting there like, OMG what are you doing and everybody else is probably loving it. It doesn't hurt the culture. Maybe helps it. I am fine and probably builds trust among the rest of them. I think you gotta consider customers and employees and partners. Like, yeah, some potential customers are going to get turned off by political virtue-signaling, but you're also going to attract the talent you want and more customers within a niche.
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Possibly. If I lead a creative team, I would support them talking liberal politics but I wouldn't share my small government truth bombs with them.
 
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n_huffhines said:
I think we mostly agree, we just disagree about what it means to be political/active. I count donations. I count putting up a flag.
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What political statement is made by placing a US flag in front of a business?
 
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hog88 said:
Why? I've always thought it better to be apolitical when it comes to business.

Don't let your money get mad or have politics.
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I wouldn't have as much business if my bar didn't participate in a certain level of activism.
 
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McDad said:
Possibly. If I lead a creative team, I would support them talking liberal politics but I wouldn't share my small government truth bombs with them.
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The team I deal with at our biggest client is off the charts left wing, on the radical side of the radical. Our meetings always devolve into them talking politics and I just sit there nodding my head thinking they don't have the first clue who their talking to. When I told them I voted for Jill Stein I thought I was going to end up in a 6 person group hug of joy.
 
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Vol8188 said:
It’s a sad place to be where placing a flag is now an overt political statement due to the extreme views from the other side
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Nobody said it was an "overt political statement" and calling out your misrepresentation is the only response you get out of me, you lying waste of time.
 
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hog88 said:
The team I deal with at our biggest client is off the charts left wing, on the radical side of the radical. Our meetings always devolve into them talking politics and I just sit there nodding my head thinking they don't have the first clue who their talking to. When I told them I voted for Jill Stein I thought I was going to end up in a 6 person group hug of joy.
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When I tell people I don't vote, the response is less enthusiastic.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Nobody said it was an "overt political statement" and calling out your misrepresentation is the only response you get out of me, you lying waste of time.
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When I get American flag stamps from the PO, I attach them to my envelops upside down.

That't the extent of my public political activism.

I'm such hell raiser!
 
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DinkinFlicka said:
I wouldn't have as much business if my bar didn't participate in a certain level of activism.
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Do you worry that leads to separate worlds for left and right? Grocery stores, pillows, bars, etc.

and if so do you consider that separation a positive
 
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