Google Fires 28 Employees After Multi-City Protests
Remember, your coworkers have to be there. They have to be nice to you. They have to listen to you.
Respect that. Work is not an appropriate place for activism. Or bigotry. Or just assholery.
Your coworkers aren’t your audience.
Totally deserving after all the heckling, property damage and distress caused to other employees due to their acts. As someone said earlier about this topic, you're supposed to leave your political leanings outside when you enter that gate. Your employer's place is not your political playground to run agendas. It's a transactional and professional relation where you offer a service and get a monthly pay check, that's it.
Marc Andreesen had a brilliant post related to this: https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1780450134188585045
What disturbs me about these types of protests is that the people involved forget that working for a company is a two-way street. An employee has no more the right or place to dictate to an employer what it can do, as an employer can dictate what its employees do. That's because in America at least, you can leave, you can work some place else. The employer can choose not to work with someone. Protesting employees seem to think they have this pedestal of social justice which gives them some authority over how a company can act.
If you don't like it, leave, and when the company can no longer find employees they will change or go out of business.
Free market. You don't like what your company is doing you are always free to leave. No one should be paying you to complain
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Its a bold move to try to protest the people signing your paycheque while at work (without a union backing you up)
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40072295
Wow the CEO finally grew some balls. Has been such a pushover for years. Trying to be global capitalist empire while entertaining the demands of bratty employees that continuously humiliated him. Good job for a change!
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Beating down that protest will cost Google all the independent heads it still had. Nobody ever struck gold with a troupe of slaves bound to a kings court. Nobody even does report gold to dysfunctional organizations.
Please answer truthfully.
If this sit in were by a group of employees protesting climate change effects of Google’s data-centers and rampant, unrestricted and frivolous training of neural networks by Google employees, will HR do this?