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Should PC Repair shops state political views?

  • 01-05-2014 12:07AM
    #1
    Smashius_Clay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭


    Technipro Pc Repairs - a Ballyfermot-based company - state on their Facebook account that their 'Political Views' are 'Sinn Féin' (and also that their 'Relationship Status' is 'Single', but that's another story...)

    Does anyone else find it odd that a company whose purpose is to fix laptops and such should reveal who they vote for? It might alienate certain clients, regardless of whether they support Sinn Fein, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour or whoever.

    The person who runs their account also revealed, on a public link announcing Sinn Féin President Gerry Adam's arrest, that they were 'uniforms' at 'commemorations', presumably commemorations having to do with Irish republicanism.

    Again, isn't this a bit strange?

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    Again, isn't this a bit strange?


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  • #2
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,457 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    Is it PC?


  • #3
    GerardKeating
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,062 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    Smashius_Clay wrote: »
    Technipro Pc Repairs - a Ballyfermot-based company - state on their Facebook account that their 'Political Views' are 'Sinn Féin' (and also that their 'Relationship Status' is 'Single', but that's another story...)

    Does anyone else find it odd that a company whose purpose is to fix laptops and such should reveal who they vote for? It might alienate certain clients, regardless of whether they support Sinn Fein, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour or whoever.

    The person who runs their account also revealed, on a public link announcing Sinn Féin President Gerry Adam's arrest, that they were 'uniforms' at 'commemorations', presumably commemorations having to do with Irish republicanism.

    Again, isn't this a bit strange?


    Again, isn't this a bit strange?


    Happens all the time with profiles for small Business's, the line between the company and the person behind it get blurred.


  • #4
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,035 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    GerardKeating wrote: »
    Happens all the time with profiles for small Business's, the line between the company and the person behind it get blurred.

    +1 It's the guy's own business if he wants to make his political views known and have them publicly associated with the business. In turn he takes the risk that he will alienate certain sections of the population who disagree with that party but that's his decision.

    It's not unknown for small businesses down the country to allow one of the parties to put a political posters in the window at election time so this is not a phenomenon that's down to new media like FB, Twitter etc.


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