Now THIS is fucking amazing! A 21 year old girl who went to school with my daughter since elementary school, and who now attends UM posted a link to the Siegel employee coercion article and wrote "Wow! Awesome article!" like it's a fuckin great idea. WTF? And I know she has student loans and maybe even gets Pell grants because there's no way in hell her family can afford to send her to a private college. God damn I just can't fathom it? Oh lets see. Looking at her page it appears she's a birther as well. Where the fuck do they get that Kool Aid because that must be some mutha fuckin powerful shit!
I've literally read hundreds of 'comments' saying virtually the same thing.. "Hey, it's his company the gov't can tell him how to run it" .. "what is he supposed to do, lose money? that's not very smart business-wise"..."he said nothing wrong, if he loses money his employees lose.. what's the big deal"... in fact, I don't know if you remember, Draven from Muche, did the exact same thing before Obama was even elected.. he said that if Obama won the election he would close his company, fire his 100+ employees and tell them all to have a nice Christmas and enjoy their new president... and that's just what he did.. before a single tax was raised, but he even took the oath of office.. he fired them all right before Christmas and sold his company..
and 1/2 the board backed him for doing it..
so yeah, the kool-aid is powerful..
here's the thing..yes, this guy can fire whomever he wants... yes, when his profits go down,sadly he can and will drop employees. That's just the reality of any business.. But, what this guy said was different. what he said was It's all about
me, vote the way
I tell you,
I built this company and if it wasn't for
me,you'd be nothing.. and if you don't vote the way
I tell you, you're fired.
that is a whole different animal than him just saying "
Dear Employees, you all know the economy has really hurt the hotel industry. because of this I am going to have lay 300 people starting 3 weeks from now. I am very proud to have worked with all of you and wish you luck as you go on in your life outside this company"..
But like the '47%' comment that had people standing up saying "He's right".. instead this has created even more division IMO.. I look at "Romney/Ryan' yard signs and think "assholes".. 1st an foremost. It's not on purpose.. but to see people who support the 47% comment, Ryan's 30% comment,Siegal's comments.. all I can think is "what an asshole"...and Obama didn't do that.. Romney,Ryan and their 1% buddy did it..
