I don't know why anyone would choose to work at Google anymore.
Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize
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#12According to their linkedin, they graduated highschool in 2015.
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#13The article is confusing. She says she was fired for doing one thing. Google says she did something else (modified Chromium without permission). Does she deny their claims, or is her statement just spin? Given just her quotes you would think that she was fired for literally telling coworkers that they have a right to organize.
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#14Google getting a taste of ad injection. Nice!
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#16> Kathryn Spiers, who worked as a security engineer, updated an internal Chrome browser extension so that each time Google employees visited the website of IRI Consultants — the Troy, Michigan, firm that Google hired this year amid a groundswell of labor activism at the company — they would see a pop-up message that read: “Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities.” So basically, the Go…
If you further read the article, she went through the standard approval process for changes. She did it by the book. That's hardly "injecting code".
Re: Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize
#17I don't know why anyone would choose to work at Google anymore.
Giant piles of money.
Probably still gets you an easy CTO title at a startup after 2-4 years at Google.
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#18Bad headline. It should read "Engineer fired her for abusing privileged access to modify an internal security tool."
That's a pretty dumb way to notify co-workers of their right to organize, but I guess it's a really good way to get fired and draw up a big media stink about it.
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#19>Kathryn Spiers, who worked as a security engineer, updated an internal Chrome browser extension so that each time Google employees visited the website of IRI Consultants — the Troy, Michigan, firm that Google hired this year amid a groundswell of labor activism at the company — they would see a pop-up message that read: “Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities.” You should get fired…
Did you not read the part where she did, where she followed the process by the book and it was approved? Or did you just have your mind made up to decide to side with Google instead?
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#20Did no one read the article?
> Spiers, 21, said she went through the standard approval process, which requires two co-workers to greenlight changes, before updating the Chrome browser extension. Another source at Google familiar with the update approval process confirmed to NBC news that those two approvals are standard practice for a browser extension update.
She did it exactly according to internal policy. The extension she updated warns site visitors on many websites. I do not see what she did wrong.