Anonymous wrote:Is OP a tween?

I think right out of college, like 22 or 23.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm gonna be real with you, I'm left leaning and I don't keep up with the news either. I hate Trump and everything he's doing and no one seems to be able to do anything...watching the news just makes me pointlessly frustrated so I don't.

Honestly I can relate to your boss wanting to focus on work instead of perseverating over something we can't do anything about. (And don't say we can protest, because those don't seem to be working.)

Same. And I work in a support role at a news organization. The news just stresses me out and there's not a thing I can do about it. I keep up with what's going on in my local community.

Op here. This may be what he’s doing. It just struck me because he is so left leaning and typically chats a lot about personal stuff AND some of what is going on recently indirectly impacts us at work. But on this, it’s like he’s got his head in the sand.

Is he a white man? Friends and I were talking about how our white husbands don’t like Trump and vote against him and complain about him at dinner parties, but are “mostly fine.”

The conclusion was that white men (who aren’t MAGA) more or less believe they’re going to be fine because they’ve always been fine.

They obvs don’t have the same struggles that women and POC do, which is why sadly so few are speaking up.

Op. Nope, not a white man. And he’s LGBTQ and as I mentioned, he (and our work place) are very left leaning and he also typically talks personal issues a lot (worries about Obergrfell) and the current political situation is impacting some issues for us at work. All the people crowing on here about it being ‘trashy’ to talk politics at work are purposely ignoring the details in my op and jumping to conclusions that are disconnected from reality.

I think you are ignoring the professional signals and unspoken advice from your boss to keep politics out of work, which is immature and shows your inexperience and undeveloped judgment.

Mentoring inexperienced workers can be done through example, not just big public proclamations.

Follow his lead. You sound very new to the workforce and inexperienced. Emulating his example of keeping politics out of the workforce will serve you well

Also keep in mind that the vast majority of people, left or right, are not monolithic and 100% team red or team blue. Your boss might be left on lbgtq and some parts of immigration, but pro closed borders, cutting back on H1N1 and pro law enforcement surge. He might be anti censorship but also anti violent leftist antifa attacks. You don't know and shouldn't know, especially since he is the boss.

What if he regularly does what you do, spouting off against trump, republicans, and white male evangelical Christians, then has to fire someone for poor performance who happens to be conservative, white, male or Christian? He is opening up your company to a lawsuit if he is overtly political or overtly team blue.

You will learn these things once you get a little older and more grown up than just out of college and new to the workforce

Keep your politics to yourself, especially once you are entrusted to supervise others

Follow your boss' lead on this one.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe he's following the news that he cares most about, but not following everything because trying to keep up with it all is a fast route to despair.

I'm left-leaning working for a left-leaning organization. I prefer not to have political conversations at work, particularly with my bosses or my direct reports. But if I did, I could probably have a conversation about what's going on in health care or education news. But if you asked me about Trump's speech to the UN for example, I probably couldn't tell you much.

I’d rather stab myself with a pencil than have a political conversation at work with anyone, much less my boss or direct reports.

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Anonymous wrote:How inappropriate to drag politics into a work setting.

Where are your manners?

Well if you haven’t noticed, Trump has dragged politics into our work settings. Do you watch the news??

That actually happened every day with the last administration.

Anyone who is intellectually honest or moderate can see that this is not something unique to trump and his followers.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm gonna be real with you, I'm left leaning and I don't keep up with the news either. I hate Trump and everything he's doing and no one seems to be able to do anything...watching the news just makes me pointlessly frustrated so I don't.

Honestly I can relate to your boss wanting to focus on work instead of perseverating over something we can't do anything about. (And don't say we can protest, because those don't seem to be working.)

Same. And I work in a support role at a news organization. The news just stresses me out and there's not a thing I can do about it. I keep up with what's going on in my local community.

Op here. This may be what he’s doing. It just struck me because he is so left leaning and typically chats a lot about personal stuff AND some of what is going on recently indirectly impacts us at work. But on this, it’s like he’s got his head in the sand.

Is he a white man? Friends and I were talking about how our white husbands don’t like Trump and vote against him and complain about him at dinner parties, but are “mostly fine.”

The conclusion was that white men (who aren’t MAGA) more or less believe they’re going to be fine because they’ve always been fine.

They obvs don’t have the same struggles that women and POC do, which is why sadly so few are speaking up.

Is it possible that your husbands actually all voted for Trump, but tell you otherwise to maintain peace in the marriage?

Maybe he's following the news that he cares most about, but not following everything because trying to keep up with it all is a fast route to despair.

I'm left-leaning working for a left-leaning organization. I prefer not to have political conversations at work, particularly with my bosses or my direct reports. But if I did, I could probably have a conversation about what's going on in health care or education news. But if you asked me about Trump's speech to the UN for example, I probably couldn't tell you much.

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Anonymous wrote:Is OP a tween?

Definitely in her early 20s.

Could be a young millennial. Definitely not GenX.

Anonymous wrote:Is OP a tween?

Definitely in her early 20s.

I might be your boss. I am secretly MAGA.

Is OP a tween?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm gonna be real with you, I'm left leaning and I don't keep up with the news either. I hate Trump and everything he's doing and no one seems to be able to do anything...watching the news just makes me pointlessly frustrated so I don't.

Honestly I can relate to your boss wanting to focus on work instead of perseverating over something we can't do anything about. (And don't say we can protest, because those don't seem to be working.)

Same. And I work in a support role at a news organization. The news just stresses me out and there's not a thing I can do about it. I keep up with what's going on in my local community.

Op here. This may be what he’s doing. It just struck me because he is so left leaning and typically chats a lot about personal stuff AND some of what is going on recently indirectly impacts us at work. But on this, it’s like he’s got his head in the sand.

Is he a white man? Friends and I were talking about how our white husbands don’t like Trump and vote against him and complain about him at dinner parties, but are “mostly fine.”

The conclusion was that white men (who aren’t MAGA) more or less believe they’re going to be fine because they’ve always been fine.

They obvs don’t have the same struggles that women and POC do, which is why sadly so few are speaking up.

Op. Nope, not a white man. And he’s LGBTQ and as I mentioned, he (and our work place) are very left leaning and he also typically talks personal issues a lot (worries about Obergrfell) and the current political situation is impacting some issues for us at work. All the people crowing on here about it being ‘trashy’ to talk politics at work are purposely ignoring the details in my op and jumping to conclusions that are disconnected from reality.

No, you're just not getting that the work place isn't an appropriate place to talk about politics. Especially from a position of power. It doesn't matter how left leaning it is.

That's my go to phrase when I don't want to discuss it. Look, your workplace may be left leaning but politics is a sensitive issue. Your boss is smart not to bring it up. Talking about your families is very different than talking about politics.

Maybe he just doesn’t want to talk about it, either at work or at all. There’s no requirement that he do so.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm gonna be real with you, I'm left leaning and I don't keep up with the news either. I hate Trump and everything he's doing and no one seems to be able to do anything...watching the news just makes me pointlessly frustrated so I don't.

Honestly I can relate to your boss wanting to focus on work instead of perseverating over something we can't do anything about. (And don't say we can protest, because those don't seem to be working.)

Same. And I work in a support role at a news organization. The news just stresses me out and there's not a thing I can do about it. I keep up with what's going on in my local community.

Op here. This may be what he’s doing. It just struck me because he is so left leaning and typically chats a lot about personal stuff AND some of what is going on recently indirectly impacts us at work. But on this, it’s like he’s got his head in the sand.

Is he a white man? Friends and I were talking about how our white husbands don’t like Trump and vote against him and complain about him at dinner parties, but are “mostly fine.”

The conclusion was that white men (who aren’t MAGA) more or less believe they’re going to be fine because they’ve always been fine.

They obvs don’t have the same struggles that women and POC do, which is why sadly so few are speaking up.

Op. Nope, not a white man. And he’s LGBTQ and as I mentioned, he (and our work place) are very left leaning and he also typically talks personal issues a lot (worries about Obergrfell) and the current political situation is impacting some issues for us at work. All the people crowing on here about it being ‘trashy’ to talk politics at work are purposely ignoring the details in my op and jumping to conclusions that are disconnected from reality.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm gonna be real with you, I'm left leaning and I don't keep up with the news either. I hate Trump and everything he's doing and no one seems to be able to do anything...watching the news just makes me pointlessly frustrated so I don't.

Honestly I can relate to your boss wanting to focus on work instead of perseverating over something we can't do anything about. (And don't say we can protest, because those don't seem to be working.)

Same. And I work in a support role at a news organization. The news just stresses me out and there's not a thing I can do about it. I keep up with what's going on in my local community.

Op here. This may be what he’s doing. It just struck me because he is so left leaning and typically chats a lot about personal stuff AND some of what is going on recently indirectly impacts us at work. But on this, it’s like he’s got his head in the sand.

Is he a white man? Friends and I were talking about how our white husbands don’t like Trump and vote against him and complain about him at dinner parties, but are “mostly fine.”

The conclusion was that white men (who aren’t MAGA) more or less believe they’re going to be fine because they’ve always been fine.

They obvs don’t have the same struggles that women and POC do, which is why sadly so few are speaking up.