Do you find it offensive that a boss tells their employees what to do with their personal lives?
ASG Software is a company suckling at the Taxpayer's you know what... Check out their website as they are part of the GSA. http://www.asg.com/Solutions/Federal.aspx
I guess, the CEO hasn't gotten enough business from this administration and it appears he wants to fire his employees if President Obama is re-elected. Arthur Allen Email: CEO Of ASG Software Solutions Asks Workers To Vote For Mitt Romney
I especially love this quote from his email to his employees.
"When we buy a company, we eliminate about 60 percent of the salaries of the employees of that company."
With a threat like this - yes I consider the entire email a threat - he is compromising the quality of service the company provides. If you are working for this guy, how does it make you feel that you will be compromised because of your vote? Do like having your arm twisted?
If you are doing business with this company, think about how rational it is to do business with this firm. He will take that really good employee contact or relationship you have built with his company and put it at risk. Do you like dealing with cranky employees? Do you even know if this employee will be there after the election?
He obviously has too much business on his hands if he can afford to indirectly tell his customers what to do? If you are putting YOUR business in this guy's hands. Is it legit to ask how slippery his hands are?
Will he treat YOU differently as a customer if you don't tow the Romney Line?
He is free to fire his people. But the market place is free to avoid goof-balls like this.
And YES - this is a blog post that becomes a blatant ad!!! (Sorry to impose that free market stuff.)
I will be happy to talk to customers who are using ASG Services to allay your fears about stability.
Come talk to Find A Nerd Computer Services. I am a nice guy, a one man operation. I am happy to serve anyone of any political persuasion. Yes, I can talk to Republicans!
Call me at 610-322-2344 or email me JoeTheNerd@FindANerd.com
Let me help re-think your strategy to keep you away from unstable businesspeople.
Money isn't Red or Blue.
Money is GREEN.
I doubt any of the employees of ASG Software would have any legal remedies unless they can PROVE they were terminated or otherwise affected by the way they actually vote. This gentleman's is well within his 1st Amendment rights by expressing his opinion. There is no way for him to KNOW how his employees actually vote, so what exactly is the problem? His views of the election result may very well be right on the mark, insofar as future employment is concerned. The key question is, if he cannot TELL how you voted, how is his message threatening to an individual employee??
I am making strictly a free market argument against this clod. He can say whatever he wants. He can easily be painted as Ebenezer Scrooge, Would you want to work for this guy? Seriously? I want him using his First Amendment - I want him to yell this as loud as possible. He can mistreat his employees all he wants - it makes it that much easier to take his clients away.
I probably wouldn't mind working for him. Then again we think alike. How does one "mistreat his employees" by simply expressing an opinion? Does the same thing apply to unions who also imply that voting a certain way - or not voting that way - will affect the member's ability to work, earn, or accumulate benefits?
i look at this as strong arm tactics - that is why this is a story in the first place. you should not have to pass a political litmus test to go to work.
Yes, he's very blunt about what he sees as the future of his company and its employees if President Obama is re-elected. But that stops no one from voting according to their conscious, and there is absolutely no way that Mr. Scrooge could find out how anyone votes. It's a silly thing to get your undies twisted over. Even if every ASG employee votes Republican, it assures nothing. And if the result isn't to his liking - business wise - so what if Mr. Scrooge decides to give away his company's independence? He's perfectly within his rights. What exactly is the alternative you think should be enforced? Again, no laws were broken. Care to take a whack at my question about unions doing essentially the same thing (only they don't bother asking their members - WHO THEY WORK FOR - what political direction they should take)?
i am turning your union argument around on you. I want to expose this guy the same way you are 'exposing' unions...
On the other hand, there's really nothing wrong with it, as is the case here with one man's view of a potentially harsh reality.