CEO emails 7,000 employees: Defeat Obama or else

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From CNN/Money:
Surprise. David Siegel, the resort CEO who is building the biggest private home in the country, really, really doesn’t like President Obama. And while Siegel hasn’t sent any money to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, he has gone a step farther to support him.
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					On Monday he sent an e-mail to all 7,000 employees of  privately-held Westgate Resorts, many of them in the battleground state  of Florida, warning them their jobs are at risk if the president is  re-elected.
“The economy doesn’t currently pose a threat to your job. What does threaten your job however, is another 4 years of the same Presidential administration,” he said in the e-mail.
“If any new taxes are levied on me, or my company, as our current President plans, I will have no choice but to reduce the size of this company,” he says in the nearly 1,400-word e-mail. “Rather than grow this company I will be forced to cut back. This means fewer jobs, less benefits and certainly less opportunity for everyone.”

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He lays it out for his employees. He insists that he did not threaten to fire anybody nor did he order anybody to vote a certain way.

Apocalyptic.
 
I read this article and his glib letter with it’'s closing line “your Boss”.

Seems like a real class act- this guy.

He certainly can’t take his “versailles” with him. . . . .
 
It does not surprise me that many CEO’s are opposed to Obama’s policies. I am surprised how vocal and how strident they are in this cycle. The standard policy for those who run large businesses is to stay on the good side of both parties by paying what would be called protection money if paid to the Sopranos.
 
Trader said:
It does not surprise me that many CEO’s are opposed to Obama’s policies. I am surprised how vocal and how strident they are in this cycle. The standard policy for those who run large businesses is to stay on the good side of both parties by paying what would be called protection money if paid to the Sopranos.
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His business is privately held.

If I was in his situation, I would strongly consider selling to Marriott or Hilton and retiring to Costa Rica…if Obama won again.
 
It is a privately held company. He may do whatever he feels compelled to do. If his bottom line shrinks because of Obama’s tax policies (including the ObamaCare tax burden), he is perfectly within his rights to downsize his company. His employees are free to leave if they do not like his pronouncement or political beliefs.
 
I have friends that work at Westgate resorts here in Orlando that mentioned that. Their impression of the reaction in the office was that people don’t respond positively to being threatened.

I don’t care which candidate you favor, that’s not the way to persuade people to see things your way.
 
Tampa_Dave said:
It is a privately held company. He may do whatever he feels compelled to do. If his bottom line shrinks because of Obama’s tax policies (including the ObamaCare tax burden), he is perfectly within his rights to downsize his company. His employees are free to leave if they do not like his pronouncement or political beliefs.
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An attitude no more than what we expect from the rich. 😦
 
While I understand and sympathize with the sentiments expressed in the email…this seems a bit overboard. But is it really any worse than what union employees are subjected to by the unions…just in the opposite direction.

Due to Obamacare companies have been reducing hours for employees. And Mr. Siegal is making a legitimate point…if taxes go up, he may have to downsize his company.
 
I work for a company of about 450 employees. The executives recently hashed out what Obamacare would mean for the company and its employees. I was told “this is gonna kill us.” They didn’t go into detail with me as they shouldn’t. I’ll find out when the rest of the employees find out. Might mean layoffs. Don’t know. 😦
 
Seeker1961 said:
I have friends that work at Westgate resorts here in Orlando that mentioned that. Their impression of the reaction in the office was that people don’t respond positively to being threatened.

I don’t care which candidate you favor, that’s not the way to persuade people to see things your way.
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Whom did he threaten?
 
i read this as an unemployed construction worker and search and find out that the house is 90,000 sq.ft…all i can think is some lucky guys have long term jobs building this monstrosity,bricklayers,rodmen,electricians,hvac .their aren’t a bunch of wage slaves,their skilled guys that are needed for a job this size,and there will be a lot of envious crybabies whining about the unfairness of it all.take it from me it won’t be threats these cats will be handing out if you talk this garbage around them.a lot of blue collars are figuring out that the ivory towers are directly responsible for them getting screwed.the luxury taxes on items such as yachts,i have good friends that this affected ,they have one man lofts making sails and bimini tops that these taxes directly affect. mansions that goofs like this build support friends of mine family ,plumbers ,yard care ,nannys.and all the miscellaneous trades that keep places like this going. we are really sick of the whining of a bunch of people that have never built nothing ,have just tore down. i am grateful that these guys have jobs.
 
How cute; for CNN to publish this. This is just the way things are. Why is this a shocker to everyone. He owns the company he calls the shots.
My boss did fire an Obama supporter in 2008 and black listed all the suspected ones as well. That’s the “beauty” of working in a GOB network, your either one of the GOB’s or your not.
 
I say good for him.
He is doing the responsible thing and warning his employees that there might be layoffs ahead of time and giving them an opportunity to possibly help themselves (unlike the president’s recent request to the major defense contractors to violate federal law by NOT warning of potential layoffs-- at least until their union employees vote to re-elect him-- under the looming threat of sequestration).
 
I despise Obama, but if I got an e-mail like that from my boss, I would consider voting for him out of spite. I really would.
 
Indeed - rude of the CEO. However I would not ever go that far, IMHO.
 
after my earlier post had dinner with some friends and a priest that used to be at our parish,found out mutual friends who have adopted between 3 couples 3 kids in the last year are rushing to adopt more because if the evil bush tax cuts are allowed to lapse ,the tax breaks that allowed them to afford to adopt will lapse also.
 
Jessup said:
How cute; for CNN to publish this. This is just the way things are. Why is this a shocker to everyone. He owns the company he calls the shots.
My boss did fire an Obama supporter in 2008 and black listed all the suspected ones as well. That’s the “beauty” of working in a GOB network, your either one of the GOB’s or your not.
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Firing AND blacklisting? Interfering with people’s ability to earn their daily bread because of who they support? If that is not a sin, then it should be.

I suppose your boss did “build that” all by himself, so what need of workers, or of qualities such as loyalty and fairness? For all I know, maybe he “built” the workers too, so no problem if he destroys their lives; after all he OWNS their minds and their wills, no…? :mad:
 
For the sake of discussion, let’s say that a business owner wrote the same email, but instead of promoting Romney, he insisted that his workers support Obama or their jobs would be in danger. What if it were your boss that wrote such an email? How would you feel then?
 
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