Does anyone think this is inappropriate

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Ron Kimball said:
I find it somewhat amusing that there are folks here - that work in the entertainment and theater industries - that think posting ultra-right comments in a public forum isn't going to impact their careers negatively ...
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Our firm works with folks of all political/social persuasions. Some are less inclined to hire folks with publicly stated, significantly divergent views. We advise our employees to not use our company name if they wish to make partisan statements in social media or on public forums.

Our local newspaper went to Facebook-based commenting. One of the local real estate firms has a very vocal salesman with staunch views and his employer's name was featured at the top of every post he made. He no longer posts comments to the newspaper and, I'm told, has toned down his public political & social commentary on Face-space as well. Not every home seller wants to be represented by a salesman aligned with the John Birch Society or the American Communist Party.

Personally, I'm in favor of parties... And birch is a lovely wood species :D
 
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Politics is a very simple subject for me. All decisions made are either about empowerment or control. It is not rocket science to figure out which one it is and whom are the ones being empowered or controlled. Even in the most free society there is a time and a place for both depending on the circumstance. The recent trend of zero tolerance laws have set a new standard for the absurd and there are always going to be folks who either lack common sense or are on some power trip ready to abuse the situation. It will always take someone in power with some wisdom and fortitude to make the "right" decision and start the chain of events that need to happen to change or modify a law that is fatally flawed. Some local legislators including ones in my old County of Cobb in GA, which includes the infamous town of Kennesaw, are in the process currently of modifying some zero tolerance laws to better address the spirit of the law and the use of common sense. Of the cases I know of one includes a girl bringing a plastic butter knife to home economics class to cut a cake with who was suspended under one such law. Another one is the case of a young boy who had his tackle box in the trunk of his car leftover from his weekend fishing trip. There happened to be a filleting knife in it and he too was suspended. That one is particularly interesting because the search was constitutionally illegal in the first place. A third case involves a young man with his landscaping tools used in his afterschool job locked in his truck. Along with the weed eaters and other tools was a machete. This resulted in suspension as well.

At least the folks in these towns realize there is a problem and are moving to correct it. The way the zero tolerance laws were written any incident had to be reported and result in suspension and sometimes arrest. There was no option according to this law to consider a plastic butter knife not a weapon. I really want to believe the persons who passed some of these laws were trying to do something good for their community and just did not think it out fully. Things are going to happen that were probably not intended or thought of. It is when any of us stands by and lets them continue to happen that I question who we are as a nation. My parents and grandparents would not have turned a blind eye to "shenanigans" like these laws as they would have called them. Neither will I nor will most of my fellow citizens of my previous community as is obvious by what is transpiring now.
 
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:-) yup not everybody can afford to express their opinions. The founder of Lululemon made wealthy by selling yoga wear, made the faux pax of printing some quote from Ayn Rand on his chain's shopping bags and learned that his personal philosophy was not consistent with most of his customers. He was certainly guilty of not knowing what room he was in.

The nice thing about getting old is you care less about what other people think about you.... but business is business and the customer is always right even when making a downward facing dog pose and striving to be one with the universe.

He probably resigned from running the company he founded because life was too short to constantly edit himself, or he figured he'd made more money by falling on his sword. (I kind of liked the idea of see through yoga pants...:-)

JR
 
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Back to the OP. I think the sexual harassment charge is somewhat reaching when you are 6 years old. How about stop being a nuisance to one of your classmates. No means No whether it is kissing, biting, throwing paper wads, flicking buggers, or anything else a 6 year old can do to be annoying. The sexual harassment charge at least has some merit in real life and who knows, maybe it will make an impression and save some grief and possibly legal trouble later in life. Now the poptart gun incident is a whole other can of worms. I wont even start.

Yes John, getting older at least has a few advantages. Feeling free to rant in the basement without fear of financial repercussions is one of them. And for the record the customer is not always right as far as I am concerned. If I am asked to do something that will reflect badly on my company such as bring an inadequate system to a show to save on cost I will either bring at my expense what extra is needed or politely decline the gig and state the reason for doing so. If the customer really has to be right on an obvious screw up they are welcome to be right without me. I won't even say I told you so when they come back to me for the next gig. A national southern rock band in a 2000 seat room through one 12"and 1.4" top and 1 sub per side comes to mind. I heard it turned out how one would expect. I did the remaining shows in the series with my rig at my price and did not even incur a lawsuit like the first show did.
 
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