politics is not tolerated.
In a well run company it isn’t. The ceo I work for doesn’t talk politics. Everyone assumes he’s a democrat but I would libertarian based on a few slips.
For the most part he avoids politics. Either way you are making half the people mad and potential alienating half your customers.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Exactly.
Poor leadership permits political talk. Or any talk that is divisive or off-topic.
Talking about your weekend escapades is also frowned upon, for the same reasons - they’re both juvenile, ego-centric, and off topic.
No professional wants to hear about how drunk you got and who you screwed.
This is like business 101 stuff.
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Trigger Warning: Communism
See, this whole conversation is why Marx’s theory of alienation is a thing. It assumes that the employees are at work purely for the sake of working, as if employees consent to how other’s use the product of their work by virtue of their employment. But the relationship between what a worker does and what a company does with it is important. For those of that aren’t genocide supporters and can’t square the circle by abstracting our work from those that use it for murdering other people, talking about it challenges the underlying justification for permitting it in the first place. Like yeah, Google is invested in information technology and all that, but why does that necessarily mean they must have a relationship with Israel to more effectively target Palestinians? Not being allowed to talk about that is quintessential alienation in the Marxian sense.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
If you don’t like it leave. It’s that simple.
In a Marxist country, you’d be put in prison for disagreeing. In a country like ours, you can go create your own company to compete with Google if you don’t like what they do
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Well, they did leave…by force. But that still leaves Google supplementing genocide and them out of job. Ideally, they’d still have a job, and Google would uphold the human right to life. But Pichai sidesteps that contention altogether by decree: “Don’t talk about it!”
In a capitalist country where life is cheap, you’ll lose your livelihood refusing to contribute to murder on an industrial scale. So, trade-offs, I guess.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I can get behind both ideas. I think it really depends on the culture, and team morale. Lets be real, sometimes you just want some water cooler talk instead of going to another meeting. And sometimes, that one guy talks so much, you hesitate inviting him to any meetings because you know he’ll make it twice as long as it should be. As goes the old saying goes, it’s all about balance.
I’m of the mind that you can talk about minor things, like sports and the weather and whatnot, but if you start bragging about your teams latest win to your coworkers excessively, well, take it down a few notches. Don’t make others uncomfortable.
And don’t talk politics. At best, you’ll make enemies of idiots, at worst, you’ll outed as the idiot.
Or at least, that’s my two cents.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
This is why the younger generation struggles at work. They don’t get its work. It’s not play time while getting paid.
gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
This is why the older generation is bitter, they spent their whole lives working while the stuff that mattered passed them by. They don’t get it’s life, don’t miss your life chasing money. 🙃
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Who’s bitter? The only bitter people I know around below 25.