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Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

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Re: Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

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My 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 re…

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Re: Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

#42
post #23

I 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.

Do insurance companies have a bad reputation in other regions? I personally love my insurance company and wouldn't be embarrassed to work there at all

Re: Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

#43

My 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 re…

Lol id bet that 90% of googles in the US are in European /UK terms centre right or wet/one nation tory's

Re: Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

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post #3

“about a dozen employees”. The 'maven' story was published in early march, it’s an 80k employee company, that is not even a blip within their natural turnover rate.

And all employees who are being "let go" shortly will claim they left because of this

Re: Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

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post #23

I 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.

Do insurance companies have a bad reputation in other regions? I personally love my insurance company and wouldn't be embarrassed to work there at all

I figure he probably was referring to private health insurance.

Re: Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

#46

My 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 re…

You certainly seem to be the mirror image of tolerance. Sigh. Have you ever considered that you're projecting?

Re: Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

#48
To me this quote right here seem to sum it up perfectly:

The company’s recent political fumbles, like its sponsorship of the Conservative Political Action Conference and its struggle to address internal diversity concerns, have also played a role.

The company does not want to be a left leaning liberal company. It wants to be a neutral company that doesn't get punished by the winds of our two party political system. I'm sure after Trump won in 2016 a lot of higher ups at Google let out a collective sigh of relief about their 2012 decision to support the CPAC.

Calling that support a 'political fumble' is all that you need to see how biased this article is.

Re: Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

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post #32
post #23

I 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 is it embarrassing to work for an insurance? Most insurances exist for a reason and are vital for most people/businesses. It's often said that insurances can be boring to work for but never heard that the sector has a terrible reputation.

Health insurance doesn't have a terrible reputation in the US?

Re: Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

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post #6

I'm glad this attitude didn't exist in the 1940s. Otherwise we all might be speaking German.

It may have existed - but it wouldn't have mattered since the US government essentially controlled the production of critical industry and companies through the OWM, under threat of price controls, seizures, and establishing government corporations.

Not quite the iron-grip that less democratic nations had on their economies during war-time, but not what you would call a free-market economy nowadays.

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