In and inspiring e-mail to staff who mandatorily worked on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, CEO of local tech firm HustleCorps assured his employees that MLK would have wanted you at work today.
“I just really believe in Dr. King’s Poor People’s Campaign –that’s why we really need to meet our sales quota today,” said CEO Ryan Hodges. “If you spent the day resting, recuperating or volunteering for a local organization in his honor, would that be making HustleCorps richer or poorer? That’s right, poorer. I mean, not poor, just less rich. Now that’s no way to honor a king like him or me is it?”
Regarding a few complaints about the company again refusing to honor the national and federal holiday dedicated to the civil rights leader, Hodges referenced his favorite Dr. King quote.
“I know some of you hate working today but as Dr. King said, ‘Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that,’” Hodges said. “So love the work you hate, love the boss you hate – just love, love, love. And I swear to God if anyone goes to HR about this again you’ll be fired – capice?”
Hodges closed the business day out by tweeting Dr. King’s quote “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” with a link to HustleCorps’ latest quarterly earnings report.
