ArfinGreebly
Moderator Emeritus
UnAmerican?
UnAmerican to have your customers cheesed off because you publicly endorsed someone your customers don't like?
No, the customers have every right to be cheesed off. He has the right to speak his mind, and his customers have the right to turn their backs on him.
Not as important as we think?
You may be onto something there. When a company or the company's executives convince themselves that their customers are "not as important as they think" often that little bit of arrogance will show through in some publicly visible way, and the customers, who have their own ideas about their importance, and how they want to be treated, can be counted on to take their custom down the street.
The Dixie Chicks forgot who their customers were. They said something -- aloud and on tape -- that cheesed off their customers. They lost a lot of those customers.
Nobody's rights got trampled. The Chicks spoke their minds, and the customers spoke theirs.
So it is with Dan Cooper. He's free to speak his mind. His customers are free to abandon him.
His board of directors, however, having a financial stake in the continued prosperity of the company, might take a dim view of his doing -- in public -- something that harms their revenues.
They are free to pull their funding. Nobody's rights are being trampled. He's free to mouth off. They're free to stop financing him.
You're free to say whatever you please.
If you cheese someone off in the process, don't start whining about the First Amendment. Your customers are not the US government. Your customers won't pass laws limiting your freedom of speech.
Your customers will simply leave.
He gambled that his customers would a) agree with him, b) not find out, or c) not care.
He was wrong.
UnAmerican to have your customers cheesed off because you publicly endorsed someone your customers don't like?
No, the customers have every right to be cheesed off. He has the right to speak his mind, and his customers have the right to turn their backs on him.
Not as important as we think?
You may be onto something there. When a company or the company's executives convince themselves that their customers are "not as important as they think" often that little bit of arrogance will show through in some publicly visible way, and the customers, who have their own ideas about their importance, and how they want to be treated, can be counted on to take their custom down the street.
The Dixie Chicks forgot who their customers were. They said something -- aloud and on tape -- that cheesed off their customers. They lost a lot of those customers.
Nobody's rights got trampled. The Chicks spoke their minds, and the customers spoke theirs.
So it is with Dan Cooper. He's free to speak his mind. His customers are free to abandon him.
His board of directors, however, having a financial stake in the continued prosperity of the company, might take a dim view of his doing -- in public -- something that harms their revenues.
They are free to pull their funding. Nobody's rights are being trampled. He's free to mouth off. They're free to stop financing him.
You're free to say whatever you please.
If you cheese someone off in the process, don't start whining about the First Amendment. Your customers are not the US government. Your customers won't pass laws limiting your freedom of speech.
Your customers will simply leave.
He gambled that his customers would a) agree with him, b) not find out, or c) not care.
He was wrong.
