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One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Tensions

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Re: One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Tensions

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Post by andrewflnr »

megous wrote: post #83
mason55 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You can believe X, I can believe Y, and both of us believe Z, but XYZ doesn’t have anything to do with doing our jobs so we shouldn’t let it prevent us from doing our jobs. It's easy to say this if your coworker likes football and you think sports are dumb. But what if your coworker likes attending KKK rallies and you're African-American? Or your co-worker is out there on the weekend holding signs that say "Death t…

Maybe if the coworker meets an actual gay, s/he'll hate gays less? People sometimes hate/dislike out of ignorance/unfamiliarity.

Or maybe not. The possibility is in any case not germane. If you're gay, it's stupid to count on your shining personality reforming a homophobe.

Re: One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Tensions

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Post by purplezooey »

xwdv wrote: post #29

At our company if the HR goes through your social media, and finds any evidence you may be socially activist or virtue signaling or otherwise very loudly proclaiming your disapproval of something some entity is doing, you will not be hired. You will not even get a call back. You will be labeled as a potential troublemaker (not in the good way) and be placed on the blacklist.

Very not cool

Re: One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Tensions

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Post by chrisdirkis »

megous wrote: post #83
mason55 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You can believe X, I can believe Y, and both of us believe Z, but XYZ doesn’t have anything to do with doing our jobs so we shouldn’t let it prevent us from doing our jobs. It's easy to say this if your coworker likes football and you think sports are dumb. But what if your coworker likes attending KKK rallies and you're African-American? Or your co-worker is out there on the weekend holding signs that say "Death t…

Maybe if the coworker meets an actual gay, s/he'll hate gays less? People sometimes hate/dislike out of ignorance/unfamiliarity.

That may or may not be true, but it's definitely not the responsibility of any individual LGBT+ individual to try change someone's mind. Especially when said person will likely have a pretty bad time while interacting with someone who hates who they are.

Re: One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Tensions

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Post by xenyal »

Briel wrote: post #25

This was an interesting in-depth article about series of leaks and internal turmoil that Google experienced: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery... 1. Soon after, on the plane ride back from a work trip to China, Damore wrote a 10-page memo arguing that biological differences could help explain why there were fewer female engineers at Google, and therefore the company's attempts to reach gend…

This sounds downright terrifying.

Re: One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Tensions

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Post by pheug »

duxup wrote: post #77
xwdv wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let’s just say you can’t stop someone with administrative privileges.

Administrative privileges .... to what? There's no single social media administrative privilege across platforms that I'm aware of.

On company issued hardware it's a fair assumption to make that they log everything you do and MITM your HTTPS requests.

Re: One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Tensions

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Post by beerandt »

duxup wrote: post #77
xwdv wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let’s just say you can’t stop someone with administrative privileges.

Administrative privileges .... to what? There's no single social media administrative privilege across platforms that I'm aware of.

I think the implication is that the employer is one of the platforms.

Re: One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Tensions

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Post by baggy_trough »

mason55 wrote: post #33
seibelj wrote: post #11

How about everyone goes to work and does their job and goes home. You can believe X, I can believe Y, and both of us believe Z, but XYZ doesn’t have anything to do with doing our jobs so we shouldn’t let it prevent us from doing our jobs. Super cool that everyone likes their own things though, I support liking things unrelated to job, just weird that people demand that their job adheres to whatever weird thing they l…

> You can believe X, I can believe Y, and both of us believe Z, but XYZ doesn’t have anything to do with doing our jobs so we shouldn’t let it prevent us from doing our jobs. It's easy to say this if your coworker likes football and you think sports are dumb. But what if your coworker likes attending KKK rallies and you're African-American? Or your co-worker is out there on the weekend holding signs that say "Death t…

What if your co-worker participates in Twitter outrage mobs trying to get people fired for something you believe?

Re: One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Tensions

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Post by bsder »

spaceribs wrote: post #7

As an engineer, I revel in avoiding these monolithic supercorps. I don't know why anyone would want to work in centralizing innovation and creativity into the hands of a few greedy people.

Because they want a nice paycheck and to go home at 5:00PM.
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