Comments on: Actors Equity Association: Hostile Work Environment

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:48:32 +0000

“And you know what? For every shocked and appalled lefty, you will be shocked at how many secret righties will quietly thank you for it.”

And you know what? If people would open their damned mouths they’d discover that they didn’t really need to be ’secret’ righties.

By: wileygrl3

wileygrl3 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:36:37 +0000

HA! I have a “Support Our Troops” bumper sticker in my cubicle along with a postcard that says “Don’t Mess With America”. The best thing, of course, is my Rick Warren “Purpose Driven Life” calender..GASP! Not a peep from anyone. Of course Arizona is nowhere as near hysterical liberal as California, but we do get our fair share.

By: Stevo

Stevo — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:40:51 +0000

Hey, I see your point, but they’re just cartoons, after all.

By: Rather Read

Rather Read — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:13:28 +0000

My office has a Reagan portrait in it, as well as various icons. I have Mallard Fillmore cartoons on my door. I do my part.

By: Orrin Johnson

Orrin Johnson — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:05:28 +0000

Be happy warriors. Covert office mischief is fun! No need to tell anyone in the office your politics (I don’t) but that doesn’t mean you can’t mess with those who do. Slap a conservative cartoon on one of their doors when no one’s around or an I heart Ronald Reagan sign. Even if they yank it down ten minutes later, you know the kind, it will cause them tenfold the amount of misery you deal with every day that you’re exposed to their obnoxious displays. I’ve certainly had my harmless fun with them.

This is AWESOME. I highly endorse it.

And you know what? For every shocked and appalled lefty, you will be shocked at how many secret righties will quietly thank you for it.

By: usinkorea

usinkorea — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:26:51 +0000

Nick M. beat me too it.

I gave up on working toward a PhD in part because of the absolute grind of group think. When you staff a place with such politically/socially like-minded people, the tiny few who don’t share the dominant world view are ground down – even if the ostracism isn’t as stark as it is in Hollywood.

I’ve listened to very intelligent, nice professors nonchalantly tell me their department would never hire an openly conservative professor. Or nonchalantly speak with pride about a time they ran ROTC out of the same building as the writing center and off campus altogether. I was told by another professor and good friend I should go to graduate school outside of The South, because if I didn’t, I’d never be able to teach anywhere but in The South – which was apparently hell on earth for any thinking person. They speak so openly about such blatant discrimination – because they are so used to everyone around them thinking the same way — and they can’t seem to get it through their thick skulls that discrimination in a work place based on thought is as wrong as that of skin color or sexual orientation.

One reason the news industry is so one-sided is highly likely due to the fact college students learn quickly where their own personal socio-political views are highly not welcome.

We need sites like Big Hollywood across several professions. We need them on campus and in the news industry. We need to work to encourage the freedom to speak out for people being crushed in these important institutions.

By: MsUnderestimated

MsUnderestimated — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:03:27 +0000

P.S. Now that the election is over, I just revel in my Sarah Palin 2009 calendar hung proudly on my cube wall, all the while knowing it infuriates that person. Although not quite as much as it did my 2008 George Bush calendar. LMAO

By: MsUnderestimated

MsUnderestimated — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:02:23 +0000

I work in a company where there are many blacks, and I had an unabashed pride for being a Palin fan and a Conservative. Many of my co-workers used to hang around each others’ cubes and talk politics, involving only ourselves. One day, a very “delicate” co-worker of mine had a chit-chat with my boss, apparently miffed at our frightened tone of The Chosen One being the Prez, and my boss told me “some people (it’s always ’some’, isn’t it?) are complaining about too much political talk, and it’s hurting ’some’ peoples’ feelings.

I was like.. you know what? If they’re not adult enough to come up to a rational debate, then screw you! You cannot tell me what I can and cannot discuss at work with my friends – as long as it doesn’t interfere with my job. I find it quite amusing that those who are the most offended by talk of politics are those who are usually unarmed when it comes to engaging in civil and grown-up debate. They prefer the “BUSH LIED, PEOPLE DIED” mantra, and don’t want to appear that infantile at work.

Schadenfreude is a beautiful thing, especially when you know idle chit-chat makes some small person fume to themselves.

By: Aaron Simons

Aaron Simons — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:09:40 +0000

Heavens to Betsy! Mean cartoons turn Stooge Right into a simpering baby!

No wonder Stooge lacks to stones to identify himself.

Run away, little puss.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:05:16 +0000

I worked at TVGuide and it was only moderately lefty in terms of office culture.

In response to the many “1/20/2008 Bush’s Last Day” stickers, I used to flaunt my Palin 2008 mug complete with a DNC Donkey with moose antlers. And yes, there was a crosshairs on the Donkey/Moose.

What I love about getting older is not worrying about PC and what other people think.