the best advice I can give you is to treat your political life like your sex life, and largely keep it outside of your professional life. I know extremely good people on both sides of the political isle, and I think it's important to go out of your way to be able to work with people who have differing views politically, religiously, and sexually.
I mean, you don't need to hide who you are, but especially on divisive issues, don't rub it in someone else's face. Be conscious of who you insult; It's pretty easy to insult people on the other side of a political debate, or to demean people with different religions or sexual proclivities. You never know when the guy next to you is one of "those people" and really, you are trying to work. It shouldn't matter if the guy next to you is one of "those people."
Ignoring my own advice here, I think the noise about "high-tech workers don't want raises" and "money doesn't matter" is just MBA propaganda. Nothing to do with "right" or "Left" Usually when companies say that what they really mean is "we'll donate to some BS charity run by our golf buddies rather than giving the workers raises; they are too dumb to know the difference." the truth of the matter is that money isn't everything; yeah, we all knew that. But you know? all other things being equal, almost all of us will choose more money over less.
I mean, you don't need to hide who you are, but especially on divisive issues, don't rub it in someone else's face. Be conscious of who you insult; It's pretty easy to insult people on the other side of a political debate, or to demean people with different religions or sexual proclivities. You never know when the guy next to you is one of "those people" and really, you are trying to work. It shouldn't matter if the guy next to you is one of "those people."
Ignoring my own advice here, I think the noise about "high-tech workers don't want raises" and "money doesn't matter" is just MBA propaganda. Nothing to do with "right" or "Left" Usually when companies say that what they really mean is "we'll donate to some BS charity run by our golf buddies rather than giving the workers raises; they are too dumb to know the difference." the truth of the matter is that money isn't everything; yeah, we all knew that. But you know? all other things being equal, almost all of us will choose more money over less.