Inclusiveness for all! (except for the almost 50% of the population who voted for Trump)

A FoxNews article reports that Matt Maloney, founder of GrubHub, sent out a letter to his employees bemoaning the election of The Donald. Here are some excerpts:

While demeaning, insulting and ridiculing minorities, immigrants, and the physically/mentally disabled worked for Mr Trump, I want to be clear that this behavior and these views have no place at GrubHub. Had he worked here, many of his comments would have resulted in his immediate termination. We have worked for years cultivating a culture of support and inclusiveness. ... I firmly believe that we must bring together different perspectives to continue innovating -- including all genders, races, ethnicities, and sexual, cultural or ideological preferences. ... We do not tolerate hateful attitudes on our team.

When Mr Maloney talks about inclusiveness, what he really means is inclusiveness for everyone except for those in Hillary's basket of deplorables. For example, his inclusiveness presumably would not extend to those who, like Brendan Eich (see here and here and here), donated to the campaign in favor of Proposition 8, because, perhaps on religious grounds, they believed that gay marriage should be banned in California. Until quite recently, holding the belief that marriage was an institution between a man and a woman was unremarkable in California. Now, apparently, holding such beliefs in good faith in a workplace like GrubHub means that one needs to fear, like Brendan Eich, for his/her job.

Mr Maloney talks about the need to include all ideological perspectives. But, when confronted with a truly different ideological perspective, Trumpism, for example, Mr Maloney stomps his foot like a spoiled child, and insists that it be removed from his presence. He will not tolerate it, he avers, in the very same letter in which he urges tolerance for all ideological preferences. The utterly illogical nature of his statement does not seem to occur to him, so blinded is he by his rage that the election did not turn out the way he and all his liberal San Francisco friends imagined it would (it should, it had to).

But maybe the reason it turned out so differently than you imagined, Mr Maloney, is because your own intolerant attitudes have caused so many people in your employ to conceal their true ideological preferences out of abject fear that you would react to them in precisely the manner you have. You have no clue how undemocratic and even totalitarian the tone of your letter is. This is the kind of talk one would have expected during the lowest days of the Terror during the French Revolution. An employee doesn't believe in gay marriage? Well then, to the guillotine with him!

Imagine the chilling effect that your email had on all those employees of yours who actually did vote for Donald Trump. And yes, Mr Maloney, even in San Francisco, that group likely amounted to as many as 20 percent of your employees. According to the Fox News article, you felt vindicated in having written your letter because many of your employees personally thanked you for the note. But, given the threatening and intolerant tone of your email, do you really think that the fraction of your employees who actually voted for Trump would dare to express any objection to it?

Finally, to all stockholders in GrubHub, I give this piece of advice: sell your shares now. If there is one hard and fast rule that every CEO should abide by it is: KEEP POLITICS OUT OF THE WORKPLACE! That Mr Maloney was unable to control his personal rage and allowed it to cause him to violate this fundamental rule calls into question his ability to exercise calm judgment while conducting GrubHub's business in the heat of battle. This does not bode well for the long-term success of the company.