[Sodman]

This is the same guy who said "We don't hire .NET developers"[0], so he clearly has no problem going on incendiary rants that make people angry.

While I personally agree with this particular message, it's entirely inappropriate to send it over this channel. Especially considering most end-users, such as myself, aren't paying customers, but are employees of paying customers. I doubt this is going to trigger enough uproar in any tech company to have them switch their expense reporting software, but it does set a dangerous precedent. Are representatives from Jira and Asana going to start e-mailing me asking me to vote a certain way in my state elections?

If we don't push back against this, it will become the norm, and we'll have to deal with a cacophony of e-mails with voting directions from businesses every cycle. If you thought GDPR e-mails are bad, this will be much worse.

[0] https://blog.expensify.com/2011/03/25/ceo-friday-why-we-dont...

[mchusma]

They sent this to employees ofa company? I would immediately fire this vendor if this is correct, regardless of my political views.

It exposes way too much liability to have a vendor you hire lobbying your employees without your knowledge or consent.

[TigeriusKirk]

Wildly inappropriate and an absolute dealbreaker. Expensify has been entrusted with employee contact information for the purpose of providing their contracted service. It's not available to them to send out any message they please.

I can't even imagine considering doing this myself.

[Mountain_Skies]

Tech companies might not be upset by the message but I can't imagine that all of their clients are Silicon Valley tech companies.