{"id":78,"date":"2012-08-27T16:25:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T16:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2012-11-23T22:19:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T22:19:07","slug":"were-not-gonna-take-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/2012\/were-not-gonna-take-it\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re not gonna take it!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was interested last week to learn of Dee Snider’s request to the Mitt Romney campaign to cease playing his music<\/a>. I can’t say I’m a big fan of one or the other, but his statement “There is almost nothing he stands for that I agree with\u2026” struck a chord with me. I admired the statement for two reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. Snider is staying true to his principles, and<\/li>\n
  2. He’s not being a jerk about it. He didn’t take the opportunity to fling insults or belittle Romney, he just told it like it is.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In the communication industry it is inevitable that your values will conflict with those of a client at some point. It’s hard to decide when to voice your objection, especially when you’re not the boss.<\/p>\n

    A few years ago now my employer took on a job building a website which taught some very unorthodox variations of Christianity. I nervously requested to be exempt from the project, and the employer graciously honoured my request. Later on I explained that my position was not based on intolerance but the fact that if I care about other people, I will care enough to protect them from what, in my humble opinion, is damaging to them spiritually.<\/p>\n

    It’s somewhat easier but still no less uncomfortable now that I am self-employed. Just last week I had a serious conversation with a client about what I thought were deeply materialistic messages on their website. I was thankful that the client was also very reasonable and receptive to my criticism, so much that I felt that an ongoing relationship was in the best interest of both of us.<\/p>\n

    Lesson learned? It’s well worth it to be brave, be courteous, be honest, and have integrity mixed with humility. No one respects a yes-man, and a yes-man doesn’t end up respecting himself. I’m grateful that neither of the above situations resulted badly, but even if they did, I believe I would still be happier in the end for speaking up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I was interested last week to learn of Dee Snider’s request to the Mitt Romney campaign to cease playing his music. I can’t say I’m a big fan of one or the other, but his statement “There is almost nothing he stands for that I agree with\u2026” struck a chord with me. I admired the … Continue reading We’re not gonna take it!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[16,15],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-integrity","tag-principle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28GE6-1g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}