If You Want to Keep Your Job, Check Your Politics at the Door

The 2010 elections seem to be raunchier and more scandalous than ever before. We have candidates talking about self-pleasuring, one-night stands, witchcraft, gays in Speedos, marijuana legalization -- even calling the opposition "bastards" and "whores." Bringing up any of those subjects in the workplace would never be a particularly savvy move, but it's all too easy for them to slip into common conversation during the current elections, as the media is all abuzz with these topics.