The 2016 election has already had a major effect on the workplace – and a president hasn’t even been elected yet.
Jim, a 25-year-old corporate trainer at a Midtown-based software company, says he bites his tongue when the women in the office start talking about Hillary Clinton.
“I’m for Bernie,” says Jim, who asked his last name not be used because the Flatbush, Brooklyn, resident doesn’t want his co-workers to know.
“I mentioned it once to a woman, and she got so condescending. I don’t need that. Keep the elections at home; keep the peace in the office.”
Republicans and Democrats alike are rabid over this year’s presidential election, which experts say is the most polarizing yet. It’s not just the candidates’ contentious points of view that are problematic, but also that the wannabe nominees are in the spotlight 24/7 thanks to the primaries, debates, headline-grabbing remarks and social media gaffes.
I hate to remind everybody, but; THERE IS NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THIS COUNTRY…and its’ always been that way….say what you are brave enough and big enough and rich enough and bad enough to get away with – nothing more…forget the Bill of Rights and all those freedoms they talk about in the constitution. And this really applies to politics and chickens.