Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize

Post by PunchTornado » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 2:39 PM UTC

danso wrote: post #47

kache_ wrote: post #7

>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…

Agreed, but the engineer's claim is that she followed the standard approval process "which requires two co-workers to greenlight changes". The article says another Googler confirmed that this is the process. But the article doesn't say that Spiers' assertion (that she went through the process, and had two colleagues sign off) has been specifically confirmed. Presumably, audit logs would make this an easy thing to set…

Post by FussyZeus » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 2:39 PM UTC

kop316 wrote: post #43

iwantagrinder wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

This was the process: "the standard approval process, which requires two co-workers to greenlight changes" In my company, I could put in travel orders to let me go to and from Hawaii on the company dime, have a vacation, and have my supervisor approve (which is following the standard process), but doing that should get me in a lot of trouble and/or fired.

Post by sidcool » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 2:39 PM UTC

cj wrote: post #5

> 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…

Post by dominotw » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 2:40 PM UTC

kop316 wrote: post #43

iwantagrinder wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

This was the process: "the standard approval process, which requires two co-workers to greenlight changes" In my company, I could put in travel orders to let me go to and from Hawaii on the company dime, have a vacation, and have my supervisor approve (which is following the standard process), but doing that should get me in a lot of trouble and/or fired.

Post by scarface74 » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 2:40 PM UTC

jpmontez wrote: post #34

kache_ wrote: post #7

>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…

"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 alleges it was done by the book.