The company you work for--Blue or Red?

[bigwillq]

The newspaper I work for in CT is red, which sucks big time. I always thought, when I got hired, that they were Blue. In the past they would always endorse the DEM candidates but prior to my getting hired three years ago, the company was bought out and the new owners are RED.
I was just wondering if you folks object to working at a RED company.
Share your thoughts?
Thanks.

[stopbush]

1. I work at a non-profit where the staff is always blue

and the big money patrons are as red as blood.

[chalky]

2. Red company, red co-workers, red state, red, red, red...

Somebody please...kill me.

The sad thing is I live in the bluest city in Texas. How I managed to hit the red "trifecta"(TM CHIMPY) is beyond me.

[hughee99]

3. The founder of my company worked for the * Administration

so I'm probably working for a RED company, though you wouldn't know it by talking to the people who work here.

[wildeyed]

4. Blue!

I own it :)

[bigwillq]

6. NICE!

May I ask what kind of company it is?

[wildeyed]

8. Small recreational business.

We will never get rich doing it, but it pays the bills and beats working for The Man.

[bigwillq]

11. That's cool.

Thanks for sharing.

[wildeyed]

19. ...

:hi:

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. Self-employed

Blue - I even get time off to post here.

[ConservativeDemocrat]

7. Purple

Our CEO is a Registered Republican. According to open secrets, he gave a $1000 dollar campaign contribution to our Democratic Senator. He has made no similar donation to the State's Republican Senator. Personal relationships trumps political affiliation around here.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

[CherokeeDem]

9. I Work for the Voodoo Doctor...

the one that can diagnose from afar. I work for an HCA hospital, one the good Sen. Frist, MD's family started. (Geez...don't you just love the ego, he must have the MD after his name, even when he uses Senator. Idiot.) Actually, I have a great job and work in a hospital that I really like, the people are great but it's hard to park in the garage with a blue bumpersticker; there are lots of W's on the cars. We do however have more liberals there than I had imagined at first.

[flvegan]

10. Very blue.

The guy that owns the law firm (pretty big, 120 employees, etc) is a die hard dem.

[OrlandoGator]

12. My company's PAC supports Dems and GOP equally,

...although they strongly support Santorum, which sickens me.

[globalvillage]

13. Blue.

:thumbsup:

But just barely.

:thumbsdown:

I guess sort of bluish-purple.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

14. purple

our company has a PAC and 50% went to Ds and 50% went to Rs

We also have two former senators who sit as the global chairs, one a D and the other an R

[Minnesota_Lib]

15. Rated dark red by buyblue.com

The company I work for is so red that when a co-worker and friend of mine whom is a liberal applied for a job in the department that handles political contributions he was told that everyone who works there is Republican and Dems are not really welcome--according to my friend anyway.

He didn’t get the job.

http://www.buyblue.org/detail.php?corpId=55

[Beaverhausen]

16. My division - Blue; the corporation - Red.

any details I plead the 5th...

[yorkiemommie1]

17. school district SoCal

big majority blue altho I saw a B/C sticker in a parking lot this morning so had to drop a justicefornone.com flyer in the lot.

the mood in my office on 11/03 was deep dark despair, now it's fury.

[Liberty Belle]

18. I work for a newspaper that's basically blue, or at least tries

to present progressive views as well as the occasional conservative viewpoint. I can handle that, since it allows readers to make up their own minds based on all information available.

[SeattleGirl]

20. Blue Blue Blue

with a small dot or two of Red. Lunches with the office I'm assigned to are LOTS of fun!

[stanwyck]

21. Red owners, who curiously enough

prefer blue workers. (gee, wonder why). Really. Two very conservative brothers who still believe the Republicans are "fiscal" conservatives. Plus, they're both in that 1 percent that Bush gave the biggest tax breaks.
But. The two owners don't tolerate rightwing workers well. They become casualties. Often, it's their stubbornness and unwillingness to learn new ways of doing our work. But more often, it's attitude. The owners won't tolerate racism or sexism. Or arrogance, particularly when our clients are treated disrespectfully.
So. We liberals reap the rewards. More responsibility and larger paychecks.
Smart business people know that intolerance will cost a company money. I really hated it when one of my co-workers lost his job. He had a pregnant wife at home with a small child. But he wouldn't listen to those of us who tried to tell him his rightwing rants were irritating "the brothers" (owners). He felt that because they were Repubs. like him, he was safe.
He wasn't.

[wildeyed]

22. Fiscal conservatives who won't tolerate racism or sexism

and dislike RWingers are Democrats now. I guess they didn't get the memo :)

If they are in it for the tax breaks, I guess that is different.

[stanwyck]

24. I wish that

conservatives were leaving the party due to the hijacking of the Republican Party by the American Taliban -- which hopes to relegate women to second class citizens, ostradize gay people, and continue discrimination against minorities.
Too many I know repeat "Bush will keep us safe."
Really. They truly believe that...or desperately want to believe that.
Here in the real world, we know that there really is no security. No Daddy to keep us safe. This is a dangerous world. Evil exists. And Bush sold the gullible a fairytale of security.
It doesn't exist.

[wildeyed]

26. My in-laws are in the same boat.

Life long republicans, mainline christian, fiscally conservative, pro choice and even cautiously pro gay marriage. But they just can't get their minds around the changes in the repub party. And I am convinced they will vote repub until they die, no matter how far the repub party diverges from their core values. Some sort of freaky brand loyalty is the only thing that explains it. :shrug:

[yorkiemommie1]

28. that would be my husband

........ the son of a good Democrat mom.

[stanwyck]

32. I like your term

freaky brand loyalty.

[lyberyl_prygryssyve]

23. I'm not really sure

I've never bothered to find out or ask, I guess. Should I or should I keep my mouth shut?

[KarenInMA]

25. I work for a university in Mass, so....

I'm am actually The Problem, according to Fundies.

Excuse me, I need to go belittle some Christians and force some undergrads to become gay.

[phylny]

27. I own my own business, and I'm the only "employee"

so therefore I'm entirely blue.

Now, Mr. phylny's company - aka EvvilCorporation - is entirely, completely, resoundingly RED.

[noiretextatique]

29. awful red company is a very, very blue city

:shrug: all the managers are older white men, and all the workers are women and black folks. the guy i work with, a controller, has been whining for months about not being "a tax guy," which is supposed to explain why he didn't file payroll and sales tax returns for two years :eyes: if i did that...i'd be out on my ass. luckily, i am a temp, so i will be kissing that place goodbye soon. no one discusses politics...wonder why?

[ClassicDem]

30. I run my own business.

So I get to call the shots, I used to work for a business that was full of corporate whores who would vote for anyone who would give them lower taxes, one years it's a republican the next a deomocrat they don't care as a long as they are saving money.

[B Calm]

31. My boss gets a little ticked at me when I start out a conversation

saying the minimum wage truck drivers down in the dispatch office want to know ......... We are working for poverty wages..

[BornLeft]

33. Blue.

We even have insurance/benefits for domestic partners<same sex also>. But we are owned by Germans so what can i say.

[T Town Jake]

34. Their paychecks always reliably turn my bank account bright green...

...so I've never really checked into it. But if I had to guess, I'd wager they're kinda apolitical, or, at worst give to both sides to "hedge their bets."

[DanCa]

35. I used to work for a red company

Before I went on disability I used to work in a small billing firm and the majority of the workers were ninety percent republican. It was amazing they even disagreed with some of the "cultural" issues in thier own party.
I finally sent out a company wide email that said from 8-4 casual conversation only no politics no problem. Sure it was risky but it also took care most of the problems.

[DinahMoeHum]

36. Purple - we have sales offices and manufacturing facilities in

both "blue" and "red" states.

Corporate HQ, where I work, is mostly "blue" People I work with are mixed, also.


:smoke:

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

37. dupe n/t

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

38. Big time blue

it's a small law firm... the owner is bluer than blue. We're north of Greenwich Village in the trendy Meatpacking District. Everyone of us is super blue. All of our clients are foreign artists, models, creative and fashion personnel and I would say that 99.9% of them are blue (I can't say 100% because you can never know).

[deutsey]

39. Non-profit that's reddish purple in terms of employee demographics

Just by being in a red part of rural Maryland, we can't help but have a lot of Bushites working here. But many people in our Baltimore and DC office are at least middle-of-the-road Democrats, with one or two outright lefties like me.

[Darwins Finch]

40. Grey

I work for the government. :dilemma:

[Aristus]

41. Ugh! Very, very red!

The owner of the business is an ultra-right-winger whose idea of winning the war in Iraq is to "kill them all". (What happened to liberating them?????)

Fortunately, everyone else I work with has political beliefs that range from light baby blue to dark midnight Navy blue. That's a comfort.

[mnmoderatedem]

42. I've only been with my company about a month but

I'm told the company founder and CEO gave employees half a day off the day of Reagan's funeral. No lie.

I guess that should answer the question. And no, I haven't resigned. Yet.

[lse7581011]

43. Red and Hate It!

they even gave me a talking W doll last year for my birthday to rub it in! But, the pay is decent!