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Comment author: hairyfigment 05 August 2015 05:40:28PM 0 points [-]

Owners of Chick-Fil-A do not (as far as I know) have an ideological litmus test that must be satisfied before allowing people to advance to high positions in the company.

I very strongly suspect they do, and I think you should assume that expressing the wrong political views can disqualify you for advancement in any given company. Though usually (I hope) this is less of a deliberate litmus test and more a requirement that "leaders" avoid "drama". Being feared or loved can be nice, but if your plan is to take people's money you want to be invisible.

Comment author: Lumifer 05 August 2015 05:54:24PM *  2 points [-]

expressing the wrong political views can disqualify you for advancement in any given company

Advocating, maybe, but just "expressing", understood as a non-advertised relatively minor donation to a state referendum that was more or less 50-50?

Can you provide other examples of high-ranking corporate officers being forced out of the company in similar circumstances?

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