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Google Employees Oppose Company's Cooperation with Israel

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Re: Google Employees Oppose Company's Cooperation with Israel

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Post by ir123 »

m0zg wrote: post #3

Nowadays I take a look at the person's Twitter after reading their resume, just to see if they'd be more trouble than they're worth. I've passed on several candidates over the past few years because of the utterly imbecilic stuff they posted online. Why Google is not doing the same is a mystery to me. They already run background checks, and political affiliation, for better or worse, is not a protected class. Go be a…

Maybe it's just work for you but other people take pride in the impact and consequences that their work brings about. Such people are obviously going to be upset about a contract with the Israel government.

Though I don't know how they are okay working for a company that basically shows advertisements to people.

Re: Google Employees Oppose Company's Cooperation with Israel

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Post by rvz »

Don't like it? Leave and don't work there. Simple.

You are free to leave if you do not like the direction of where the company is going. Google won't change and they don't care either because not only they are on the side of profit, they know that the employees will continue to stay because of the six-figure salaries and stock options package.

It's already been admitted.

Re: Google Employees Oppose Company's Cooperation with Israel

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Post by PeterisP »

ir123 wrote: post #11
m0zg wrote: post #3

Nowadays I take a look at the person's Twitter after reading their resume, just to see if they'd be more trouble than they're worth. I've passed on several candidates over the past few years because of the utterly imbecilic stuff they posted online. Why Google is not doing the same is a mystery to me. They already run background checks, and political affiliation, for better or worse, is not a protected class. Go be a…

Maybe it's just work for you but other people take pride in the impact and consequences that their work brings about. Such people are obviously going to be upset about a contract with the Israel government. Though I don't know how they are okay working for a company that basically shows advertisements to people.

I would guess that there are also people who take pride in the impact and consequences that their work brings about and support the Israel government, those are two separate things.

Re: Google Employees Oppose Company's Cooperation with Israel

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Post by systemvoltage »

_3u10 wrote: post #6

It’s hard to think of a country in the Middle East with more rights and freedoms or a better human rights record. I know I’ll get a lot of downvotes for saying that, but what I’d like is an objective measure on which another country in the area beats Israel

At this point Israel is part of shitty American partisan politics. No one thinks on their own. Original thinking is also prohibited by both parties, but mostly by the one that I voted for. I regret voting for them but the other option is worse.

Re: Google Employees Oppose Company's Cooperation with Israel

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Post by [deleted] »

rvz wrote: post #12

Don't like it? Leave and don't work there. Simple. You are free to leave if you do not like the direction of where the company is going. Google won't change and they don't care either because not only they are on the side of profit, they know that the employees will continue to stay because of the six-figure salaries and stock options package. It's already been admitted.

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Re: Google Employees Oppose Company's Cooperation with Israel

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Post by inglor_cz »

yosito wrote: post #7

I wonder what level of cognitive dissonance one must live with to work for a surveillance capitalist company while constantly taking activist stances against which customers that company works with.

This is already acquired at a university, where "soak the rich" and "corporate greed" is unironically used - at an institution that hikes tuition prices all the time and whose constant appetite for squeezing more money from students and parents alike significantly contributed to the stagnation of middle class life standards in America.

The difference between Google and Uni is that Google pays you, though. As such, the employees will find that their superiors are much harder nuts to crack.

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