Workplace bias: 1-in-5 managers
won’t hire pro-Trump workers
Washington Examiner,
by
Paul Bedard
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/19/2019 3:05:12 PM
American workers who like President Trump face sweeping bias against them, with some managers refusing to hire his supporters and those already employed facing discrimination and mockery, according to a new study.In a survey of hiring managers and workers shared with Secrets, the marketing firm Airtasker found that left-leaning firms are especially anti-Trump, with 20% vowing to reject a job candidate who backs the president.And those who support Trump and who are already in the workplace face substantial mockery, including name-calling.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 8/19/2019 3:11:27 PM (No. 156407)
I guess they prefer to hire people who will follow them blindly, rather than someone capable of think for themselves.
16 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
hershey 8/19/2019 3:29:14 PM (No. 156422)
I wouldn't want to work somewhere that they ask your political preference before hiring....none of their business...
34 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 8/19/2019 3:34:17 PM (No. 156430)
Well, come on! Publish the list of these companies and let us "deplorables" teach them the error of their ways when we mount our own BDS campaign against their businesses.
22 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/19/2019 4:08:57 PM (No. 156456)
Wonder what that percentage would be if the survey had been limited to colleges or news organizations.
6 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Safari Man 8/19/2019 4:14:07 PM (No. 156460)
They’re doing you a favor, saving you a lot of grief.
3 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
cor-vet 8/19/2019 4:18:39 PM (No. 156465)
I'm guessing this isn't happening in fly-over company, most likely along the liberal coasts. It would be a plus where I live!
5 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
cor-vet 8/19/2019 4:19:30 PM (No. 156466)
I hate spell check, it's fly-over country!
2 people like this.
Just imagine the outcry if this article was written 10 years ago about Obama supporters!!!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bpl40 8/19/2019 5:13:21 PM (No. 156515)
Like other fake news, I find this exaggerated. It is there - esp. on the Left Coast and NYC but one in five seems too much.
7 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 8/19/2019 5:25:37 PM (No. 156535)
It is AGAINST THE LAW to ask. How do you find out? Commune with the tooth fairy? Do you ask also about age, religion, or sexual preference, It is a false issue, anyway, whether or not it is fake news.
7 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
DARling 8/19/2019 5:34:58 PM (No. 156543)
Oh well, I won't hire people with purple hair, body piercings, obnoxious tattoos and those with gibberish names. Most of whom I would suspect are liberals.
I would bet most Trump supporters are hard-working and care about how they present themselves. I can guess that liberal managers would not like to have such people working for them. No opportunity to fill a quota or virtue signal by hiring them.
7 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 8/19/2019 5:44:39 PM (No. 156549)
Get a good lawyer. Big lawsuits will bring some people to their senses. But hatred renders people idiotic.
4 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
red1066 8/19/2019 6:19:58 PM (No. 156576)
How would they know if someone was pro or anti Trump without asking questions that are against the law. I'm guessing their bias has something to do with visual clues. If a white male applies, he's pro Trump just by appearance.
6 people like this.
Funny.... my personal politics have never come up in a job interview. Never. Professionals know not to go there in an interview.
4 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 8/19/2019 6:38:48 PM (No. 156611)
I don't believe these figures.
3 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
iraengneer 8/19/2019 6:50:19 PM (No. 156626)
Perhaps doubters should believe it. I have heard from both "executive recruiters" (a.k.a. "headhunters") and some of the lower-level and honest HR types that, yes, quite often the HR folks (and the headhunters) do in fact check things like "social media", etc. to see if the proposed candidate will be "a good fit for the culture", meaning willing to work long hours without pay and chant "celebrate diversity" when expected to (and without being directly told to do so), and all the rest. The preponderance of lefty-lib-loons and SJW's in the typical corporate HR department is almost total.
4 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
snakeoil 8/19/2019 7:00:19 PM (No. 156637)
It's been a long time since I interviewed candidates for a job. The list of questions I couldn't ask them was longer than War and Peace. You couldn't ask about their age, martial status, military background, criminal history, etc. And politics was also verboten. If you have a job to be done why would you care about their politics?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 8/19/2019 7:00:38 PM (No. 156638)
I have never been asked these questions in a job interview, but if I had, I would reply how I always do when such subjects come up:
"I make it a policy to never discuss politics, religion or other controversial subjects at work. I prefer to keep my work relationships on a purely business level."
Using this philosophy saved me a great deal of flack at the beginning of the Presidency of the Purple-lipped Blunder while I was working at a leftist newspaper. I was surrounded by leftists who had absolutely no idea where I stood on the issues of the day because I refused to engage them in their idiocy.
2 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
EQKimball 8/19/2019 7:27:54 PM (No. 156673)
I mentioned this once before, but there is an update. My brother had been on the adjunct faculty of a top- tier university for several semesters. When he felt embarrassed to disclose to two full-time professors that he was a Republican--they had been including him in their self-congratulatory discussion of being enlightened progressives--both looked appalled. The more senior of the two turned on him with a vengeance, stating, "By that revelation, you have just proved to me that you are incapable of critical thinking and therefore have no place on a university faculty." Though he had received rave reviews from his students, my brother was not invited to return. A year later the imperious faculty member became dean of students. And now you know the rest of the story.
4 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
Kowgirl 8/19/2019 7:43:59 PM (No. 156678)
I'm reading this headline as 4 out of 5 managers will hire pro-Trump supporters.
5 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
PageTurner 8/19/2019 8:23:27 PM (No. 156693)
Since word is out and lawsuits are coming, everyone should apply to these places to get the inevitable damages payout.
2 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
PageTurner 8/19/2019 8:27:58 PM (No. 156697)
Why I pretended to be a leftist reporter when I applied to a famous journalism graduate school. Did a whole slew of leftist stories for them in my submitted application -- and it worked, I got in. I was so leftwing I even got put in a special class for leftwingers. I knew what it was going to take to get in but I didn't want to persuade them THAT much.
0 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
Gabula 8/19/2019 8:47:50 PM (No. 156708)
Lucky me, I work for two owners who love Pres. Trump as much as I do. We have liberals in the bunch but we all work together just fine. Sometime we discuss our differences laugh, hug and get our jobs done.... Hey. I may do some converin' down here in TN !!!!
Gabula
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
padiva 8/19/2019 9:15:45 PM (No. 156729)
I work for a big box retail store. A few people know enough About me that I don't hear a peep from them. I excitedly told them that I was a caller on Rush's radio program in May.
Every day I show my conservative work ethic.
I'm not going to my 50th high school reunion because I don't want to be around the liberals.
2 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
Trigger2 8/20/2019 1:07:06 AM (No. 156801)
I'd say a lot of justifiable lawsuits should be flooding the court system and rightly so.
1 person likes this.
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