[matthewmacleod]

You're not allowed to bring your political beliefs at work, which IMHO is best for everyone.

Everybody does bring their political beliefs to work, and it manifests in things like how they interact with their colleagues and customers.

Choosing whether or not to provide equal benefits to same-sex couples is a political decision. Providing goods or services to an authoritarian regime is a political act. Your maternity policy is a political act. Even your dress code can be a political act.

What you really mean is that people shouldn’t be bringing to work views outside of a small range you deem uncontroversial.

[FirmwareBurner]

>Everybody does bring their political beliefs to work, and it manifests in things like how they interact with their colleagues and customers.

Not it doesn't. How people interact with others at work is a function of their personality and professionalism at their job, not a function of their political color.

If someone at work is being a dick, it only shows that he's a dick, but political junkies will try to justify that it must be because he's of the opposite political beliefs they have, because in their head "all those people behave like that".

[sandspar]

Ugh. Why is it that political junkies try to involve everyone else in their game? Most people just want to have a normal life and not get wrapped up in your meta-game about politics. Even the portentousness of calling them "political acts". That impressive sounding two-word phrase that everyone in the political game copies each other by using. Ugh. "You can't play your favorite game because you're all playing in my favorite game."