Google employees are staging a sit-in to protest reported retaliation
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Re: Google employees are staging a sit-in to protest reported retaliation
#2The implicit unionization benefits of being too smart to readily fire. Interesting.
Re: Google employees are staging a sit-in to protest reported retaliation
#3The original walk out had an estimated count of 20,000. Any estimated counts for the sit-in yet? Or just anecdotal...is it a lot of employees?
Re: Google employees are staging a sit-in to protest reported retaliation
#4Google employees protesting the makeup of the AI Ethics council appeared like the closest thing to fascism in the USA that I have ever witnessed. I hope some people see the need for diversity of viewpoint and start to be more accepting of their fellow countrymen, while agreeing on what to condemn.
Re: Google employees are staging a sit-in to protest reported retaliation
#5Of course.
Remember the manifesto a year or so ago?
They're evil.
Re: Google employees are staging a sit-in to protest reported retaliation
#6Google employees protesting the makeup of the AI Ethics council appeared like the closest thing to fascism in the USA that I have ever witnessed. I hope some people see the need for diversity of viewpoint and start to be more accepting of their fellow countrymen, while agreeing on what to condemn.
Can you elaborate on this?
Re: Google employees are staging a sit-in to protest reported retaliation
#7The implicit unionization benefits of being too smart to readily fire. Interesting.
This is likely the only segment of the labor market outside of executives that are highly valued by Corporations. Naturally, they have to be coddled and not abused like most of the rest of the American workforce.
Re: Google employees are staging a sit-in to protest reported retaliation
#8The implicit unionization benefits of being too smart to readily fire. Interesting.
This is likely the only segment of the labor market outside of executives that are highly valued by Corporations. Naturally, they have to be coddled and not abused like most of the rest of the American workforce.
There are other "not quickly replaceable" folks. Pilot and police unions, for example, still seem to have a fair amount of power.
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#9I don’t understand how a company where 5% of the workforce is responsible for the product that drives 95% of the revenue is so seemingly vulnerable to employee pressure. I can’t imagine Bell Lab employees had all that much leverage against Ma Bell.
Re: Google employees are staging a sit-in to protest reported retaliation
#10The implicit unionization benefits of being too smart to readily fire. Interesting.
This is likely the only segment of the labor market outside of executives that are highly valued by Corporations. Naturally, they have to be coddled and not abused like most of the rest of the American workforce.
I wouldn't be easily fooled. Companies try as hard as they can to turn engineering talent into a commodity, and they're relatively successful. The High-Tech Employee Antitrust suit is an example of this.
If you need to work for a living, employers will commodify your role to the best of their abilities.