Bias No Matter What!
Unfortunately no matter what I write from this point will be a biased opinion. I love my job. I love working with people. I even love all three of my bosses. However some choices that have been made I may not agree with. Our business happens to advertise with the Catholic Herald. No real issues with that because I dig the whole love Jesus, his twelve disciples, and his big daddy, God. I highly doubt that God and Jesus are down with hate. Well our business is not down with hate either. In fact as a business if I hated a customer outside of work I'd still have to serve him/her and put our differences aside. My view of a business is that we have no opinions, we're unbiased, we are neither pro nor anti; our purpose is to be. It is the actual human activity that creates the opinions, the pros or anti behavior that creates friction between employer, employee, and the customer. For the most part our store exists to serve all the walks of life. Over the past several moths our ad in the Catholic Herald has appeared next to many controversial stories about homosexuality being a sin, premarital sex, and other extreme opinionated stores. Last month our ad appears next to another controversial story along with a 4x4 ad for "40 Days For Life" a pro-life/anti-abortion walk. Now who knows how many people see our little 2x2 ad on the left of this pro-life ad but now "God forbid" someone were to associate our business with this ad. We are a business not a pro-life or pro-choice activist. I'd hate to hear someone say to me, "It's my womb. I've got rights you know!" and then walk out the store. I don't want people to think we are a god-fearing-pro-life-fag-hating-virginal-loving-store. I also don't want people to think that we are a god-hating-pro-choice-fag-loving-sexually-active-store. we are simply her to serve anyone from the moment they walk through the door to the final transaction. Bottom line it would be great if we were placed next to ads that exist that don't offend any of our future customers. Of course that would mean we'd have to advertise in a non-religious paper. But of course the store itself doesn't have opinions, it's just there to sell furniture.