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Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract
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#22I see comments about how Google should be protecting the country, thus failing some sort of patriotism test. I don't understand how people don't see that Google is a global company, and really should be providing lethal cloud services to all nations to harm all of its users instead of just some of them. Some of you are way too US centric in your viewpoints.
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#23I left a good job with an insurance company, not in protest really, but just because I hated the idea of being a part of an industry I despise so much. Unfortunately my departure didn't shake the foundation of their business, but I'm no longer embarrassed to talk about who I work for.
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#24I couldn’t help but think that if Palanteer employees ever decide to quit based on their company’s questionable decisions, there’d be no one left to work there.
There are plenty of people with either little or distorted morals willing to work for... Pretty much anyone for the right price. Which is why Google will have no problem finding replacements for these employees who have less pesky ethical standards.
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#25I wish they would release their names to see if there are any coincidences.
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#26Resigning from Google in this way is the most Googley thing you can do.
Disclaimer: I am a Xoogler
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#27I wish they would release their names to see if there are any coincidences.
What do you hope to infer from their names? Please be clear.
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#28My guess is that this is mostly political in that if Hillary were in the WH, this would not have been news despite a likely increase in “droning”, given her expression around droning.
If they really had ethical concerns they’d have quit long ago given all the data collected from their users —I get it advertising is their bread and butter. We’ll see how GDPR affects their behavior at home and if it means anything.
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#29My personal conspiracy theory is this is Google’s way to get its notorious horde of SJWs to resign en masse. I left years ago, and even back then the internal Google+ was a festering, aggressively intolerant SJW cesspool. There are dozens of people who seem to spend all day there posting the most ludicrous SJW bullshit and virtue signaling, and seemingly do nothing else (according to eg Critique, the internal code review tool). The management is unwilling/unable to do anything about the problem. From what I heard things have gotten much worse since I left.
Re: Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract
#30I left a good job with an insurance company, not in protest really, but just because I hated the idea of being a part of an industry I despise so much. Unfortunately my departure didn't shake the foundation of their business, but I'm no longer embarrassed to talk about who I work for.
Why would you not want to take about that? Did the insurance company have a very bad reputation? Because I certainly would not be embarrassed to work for some insurance companies because they can be fair and quite reasonable (while others are not).