Posted on 10/20/2017 4:29:45 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The NFL could have prevented this. Honestly, any competent employer would have. Employees do not have the right to alienate a business’ customer base, damaging the business that employs them. As an owner, you can respect your employees’ First Amendment rights without destroying your business. In fact, it could be argued that you are obligated to do so in defense of your other employees - who count on the jobs and incomes you provide - not to mention the investments your shareholders, franchisees or, in this case, team owners all make to build, operate and acquire these businesses.
I ran the company that owns the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s restaurant chains for almost 17 years. Along with our franchisees, we employed about 75,000 Americans and we flew the American flag in front of many of our restaurants. Had any company employees decided to disrespect that flag in front of our customers, in our brand’s uniform and during their hours of employment, I would have encouraged our general managers to first warn them to stop and, if they refused, to fire them.
I am very supportive of First Amendment rights and would encourage employees to express their opinions openly and freely, on their own time. But employees have no constitutional right to alienate a business’ customer base, damaging the business that employs both them and their co-workers, not to mention the owners who have taken the financial risks to create that business. When you accept employment, you accept the responsibility to advance the interests of the business that employs you. You have no right, nor should any employer tolerate attempts, to damage that business by alienating its customer base.
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This is just common sense.
Why does it even have to be said?
Why can’t liberals understand this?
https://youtu.be/uGm0VC_geLQ
Excellent.
They do. Thing is, the people in charge/owners of the NFL are as liberal as the thugs on the field. They didn't even respond until it hit their bottom line.
Now, in light of declining revenues, they want to take a stand.
Because they hate business (capitalism, y'know, and "bourgeoisie" at that).
Second post (but good article). :-)
The mask got ripped off the leftist NFL commissioner and owners...”social justice”, “social change”, aka f___ white people—yup, got it.
I have made it my 2017-2018 mission to try to persuade every football fan I encounter to boycott these jerks.
If they would have canned Colin when it happened we would just be where we are today only sooner
With the mind set of the majority of black players in the NFL they sympathy kneeling would have started right in
All he did was open Pandora’s box
There is a big divide between the white NFL fans and the black players who think they are SUPPRESSED
They are just showing their real feelings
The ball in now in Whitey’s court and whether Whitey has had enough is yet to be seen
Personally I think they can’t exist with out their Roman Circuses and there may be some who say “Enough is Enough “ but not enough will
They're suppressed to the tune of millions of dollars. People around the world who are truly suppressed would scoff at the nfl players.
The must think, like all socialists, that the money will just continue to pour in.
I think you’re right.
My liberal SIL once told me my nephew, who had just graduated with a degree in library science, would never consider working for a corporation in the research department, he’d be working for a non-profit. I bit my tongue and didn’t ask her where she thought non-profits got their “capital” to pay his salary.
They would only need to purchase some advertising for the military at the end of each quarter and the beginning of each quarter.
The owners have elected to harm themselves and disrepect us.
Exactly. Any NORMAL person knows this. You do not have First Amendment rights as an employee...If you work for a steak house at the reservation desk, showing video on your tablet of a steer being slaughtered and rail against eating meat while you wear the logo of the steak house is a very different thing than being on your own time and doing it.
It is common sense. Every single rational person knows this.
Liberals are simply not rational.
I don't know that all owners are necessarily liberal, but they tried to walk the fine line between the issue and the players--they didn't want to appear to strong-arm their players for fear of backlash from the NAACP, BLM and the MSM. I honestly think they owners thought the issue would fade away after last season, but it was fanned by outlets like ESPN, which led to even more players "protesting."
The owners should have responded to Kaepernik swiftly and strongly early on; perhaps the SF owner is one of those liberals though, and didn't want to necessarily be seen as a pro-American, anti-black owner. Who knows, there may have secretly been an agreement among a number of owners to NOT pick up Kaepernik, in hopes of sending a message.
Now, the owners do realize the interest in their product has fallen because of this issue, and they're desperately trying to push the toothpaste back into the tube.
He is spot-on. If Colin Kaepernick decided to express his hideous opinions in a speech on a Wednesday, I wouldn’t like it. But I’d defend his First Amendment right to do so.
To paraphrase Billy Joel you can speak your mind, but not on MY time.
Hahahahaha! THAT WAS GREAT!
I expected to see him grab the son by the lapels and throw him through the wall or into the hot tub where he and the other guy get electrocuted, but...I guess that would send the wrong message!
As anyone who has served in the military knows, First Amendment rights are not absolute in any way.
And that is how it should be.
Death threats and screams of “racist” in 3, 2, 1...
You are missing something about the nature of the NFL. Carl's Jr. is a free-market company. It has no government support or connections, and it knows, if it sells bad burgers, or pisses off its customers, they will quickly go to several other choices.
This is NOT how the NFL views itself. It is a monopolist, crony-capitalist, elitist group, that over the decades has come to live on its government and media connections to make money. That spirit has suffused its culture. They have a Clinton advisor as PR head. They get paid by the Dept. of Defense to promote the military, while at the same time, allow Kaepernick 2 years to protest. In a sense, Goodell does not see us rubes in flyover country as his customers - he rather has looked around at his media/corporate/goverment/wall street friends for signals on how to proceed.
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