Posted on 10/25/2020 5:18:59 AM PDT by gattaca
When Danielle Reiss attended President Trump’s campaign rally in Henderson, Nevada, on Sep. 13, she had no idea it would cost her job.
Reiss is a music publicist partnered with Pop Off, a Boston-based advertising agency that connects publicists like Reiss with artists. She signed a contract in August under which Pop Off would refer artists to her, and she would give the agency a percentage of the money she earned from helping referred artists with publicity. In early September, Pop Off connected her with her first client.
But on Sept. 13, Reiss went to a campaign rally for President Trump. Afterward she posted on social media a photo of herself with a “Make America Great Again” sign and the caption: “I saw our president speak in Anaheim, California in 2016. Yesterday, I watched him speak in Las Vegas, Nevada. God Bless America.”
Four days after the rally, Reiss says she received an email from Pop Off announcing the agency’s plans to terminate their business relationship as soon as their contract ended.
“We saw your latest Instagram post in which you held a ‘Make America Great Again’ poster,” the email said. “From this, we infer that you support the policies and ideologies of Donald Trump’s administration, which blatantly undermine the values we uphold at Pop Off.”
The email, which appears to be from Pop Off President and Chief Financial Officer Ben Silvers, adds that the agency will continue working with Reiss until February 2021, but after that “we will be terminating our professional relationship with you and will cease all partnership activities.”
The email Reiss received cited the agency’s commitment to “stand for equality, inclusion, and kindness in everything we do,” before expressing the agency’s decision to terminate any future partnership with Reiss.
“There’s nothing less diverse or less inclusive than a company who terminates someone because they have different beliefs,” Reiss insisted. “Diversity also includes diversity of thought and diversity of opinions.”
Despite agreeing to continue working with Reiss until February, Pop Off has not sent her any clients since she received the email. Reiss also says she was excluded from Pop Off’s company-wide meeting in October.
Meanwhile, Pop Off has shared political views on its Twitter account. On Sept. 24, just a week after Reiss received the termination email, Pop Off re-tweeted a video encouraging people to vote. It included the hashtag #VoteHimOut.
Pop Off Agency and Silvers did not respond to a request for comment.
Suffering for Trump’s name.
Suffering for Jesus’ name is coming quickly.
And this is why the polls are useless.
Nobody will admit to a stranger that they support President Trump.
Lie to them, they want you to and have unknowingly made you an under cover trump lover and spy. As much as it will disgust you in the presence of people at dinner, at work, and family let them know your on thier side and have a laugh at thier expense
Find a good lawyer and sue the pants off them for breach of contract. Every contract has more terms to it than merely the end date. If they are not sending her clients due to her political beliefs, they are in breach of contract.
Fired is way diff than not sending her clients.
This cowardice about supporting Trump, also applies to a general cowardice about discussing politics in mixed company...it is this cowardice that fuels the power of political correctness... People need to get over this cowardice if they want to save this country....you could have 20 people in a room, and 17 of them think that BLM is bullcrap....but they’re all afraid to say it, because they’ve been brow beaten and brainwashed into fearing that they’re the only one in the room that thinks that way....shy Conservatives need to grow a pair
Avalon Memories is right. Go find you a GREAT lawyer, courts now are filling with Trump Appointees.
Buy weapons and ammo, save your money, prep for food and fuel shortages and simply understand that being fired, or doxxed, or harassed by leftists (to include the theft of a Trump/Pence sign) is an act of modern day warfare.
Civil war is here, folks. Admit it and prepare.
JoMa
I’m a retired lawyer - and most such contracts have a clause about being terminable at will at any time by either party - for any reason (or no reason). Same way that private sector employers can fire employees for their political beliefs/activities; the First Amendment just applies to actions by government entities, not actions by private sector individuals/employers.
Pop Off can f*** off.
I was on the phone with my boss the other day while he was driving somewhere. Suddenly he says “Just passed a house where some moron has a stupid Biden sign.”
Yea, I got nothing to worry about. His boss on the other hand...
Ben Silvers is a pedophile. *That’s what I’ve heard.
Find another agency that loves this country OR
Start one yourself or
Find an agency that allows freedom of thought.
POP OFF may be the entity that suffers the most. You know, conservatives are becoming very selective about with whom they deal. Not long ago, we paid no attention to such things.
Well, there goes diversity.
Isn’t it a form of voter intimidation though?
Second by not terminating her contract immediately, makes me wonder if there is a clause that she cannot work for someone else in a similar position, thereby not sending her clients interferes with her Right to pursue happiness?
I would bet she could move to a small town in Michigan, and be welcomed with open arms for her skills. She needs to live a little and take a few risks.
A difference without a distinction.
Get a good lawyer and hit em where it hurts!!!!!
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