[alancarp]

Oh, I don’t disagree with either one of you... and that’s the problem we conservatives have when working in a Leftist environment.

At the same time, if I’m an employer, I danged well want the right to fire anybody embarrassing me and my business with the kind of pablum that they spew. It’s way past time to be civil about things like this, for we’ve been more than tolerant. You are free to have an opinion, but if you’re working for me and taking my money, then stuff it until you get home.

[steve8714]

What about if you’re a public employer? I sense a school board fight coming, especially if the coach is a winner.

[Impala64ssa]

You are free to have an opinion, but if you’re working for me and taking my money, then stuff it until you get home.
Reminds me of a lyric from one of Billy Joel's biggest hits, "you can speak your mind/but not on my time..." By the same token, the coach pointed out, perhaps unwittingly, the hypocrisy of the first Wookie to lecture us about eating healthy while swaggering around with a that bubble booty. I don't expect the Low Information Voters to realize this glaring contradiction.

[twister881]

Agree with civil discourse in (most*) work environments, but not the Leftist speech codes we have today that reflexively result in suspension or termination.

And I have a somewhat different view of employers and the employed. Business owners are entitled to their own compensation and the profits of the company. Labor, arguably the most important factor of production, helps to create wealth for the organization; it does not *take* the employer's money.

*24 years in the Navy-salty language the norm. Also I suspect coal miners don't “watch them grammar” much.