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<blockquote data-quote="959Nanook" data-source="post: 324166" data-attributes="member: 14462"><p>I'm not a trained legal beagle and clearly was not involved when any legal considerations were made. I'm not going to guestimate the proportion of possible legal costs vs implied effect on future business when they made that business decision. </p><p></p><p>I was probably not clear enough in my statement. In my ideal world, UPS would be a wonderful progressive company. I made a conscious decision to seek permanent employment with UPS (vs some other employment with an organized labor force) and one of my considerations (amongst many) was that UPS offered same sex domestic partnership benefits for my friends in the LGBT community. All that being said, I don't think UPS is necessarily a wonderful progressive company or did it out of "the goodness of their heart".</p><p></p><p>At the end of the day, I still feel that this was a business decision that was made with the bottom line in mind. My use of the term "goodwill" was in the accounting context (albeit, not necessarily within the strict definition of the accounting term). The point was that by virtue of their actions, UPS has established an intangible asset (namely a positive image within the LGBT community) that benefits UPS' bottom line (or they wouldn't have done it in the absence of a regulatory or contractual obligation).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="959Nanook, post: 324166, member: 14462"] I'm not a trained legal beagle and clearly was not involved when any legal considerations were made. I'm not going to guestimate the proportion of possible legal costs vs implied effect on future business when they made that business decision. I was probably not clear enough in my statement. In my ideal world, UPS would be a wonderful progressive company. I made a conscious decision to seek permanent employment with UPS (vs some other employment with an organized labor force) and one of my considerations (amongst many) was that UPS offered same sex domestic partnership benefits for my friends in the LGBT community. All that being said, I don't think UPS is necessarily a wonderful progressive company or did it out of "the goodness of their heart". At the end of the day, I still feel that this was a business decision that was made with the bottom line in mind. My use of the term "goodwill" was in the accounting context (albeit, not necessarily within the strict definition of the accounting term). The point was that by virtue of their actions, UPS has established an intangible asset (namely a positive image within the LGBT community) that benefits UPS' bottom line (or they wouldn't have done it in the absence of a regulatory or contractual obligation). [/QUOTE]
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