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Good. You're there to work. It also feels uniquely selfish. "I love the money but I still want to protest!" If you feel so strongly then quit but that would require sacrifice.
I assume these people would have refused to work for an arms manufacturer or an oil company, but maybe they could try to change one of those from the inside.
Politics is always a sh!tshow to be avoided personally and definitely at your place of work.
A few years ago Google bended to a small few looks like no more will they!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally if my customer was using my services to figure out the optimal time to kill someone in a way that also kills their family, and my employees were collectively protesting that, I would just decline their money.
Fortunately this is not the case here.
Except I left out the part where they also ask chatGPT who should they kill and it gives them recommendations based on browsing history and what group chats they're in.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/the-gospel-how...
James Damore was fired from Google[0] when he went out of his way to ensure his politics were to be kept private. What on earth did these people think would happen if they didn't attempt to keep their politics private? [0] https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/7/16111052/google-james-damo...
Well I'm pretty sure the people protesting were aware this could be the outcome. So in that regard, I think it's very admirable for them to put their convictions over money. From the outside, I agree with their opinion. But then again, money screams and people talk. I feel like a lot of people in tech tend to be very much "not interested" when it comes to politics, even though tech and particularly these big companie…
> Google says that each worker it fired actively disrupted its offices, while the workers dispute the claims, saying some of those fired did not even enter the company’s office on the day of coordinated demonstrations against the company. Isn't this a pretty critical point that the Washington Post should have looked into a bit more?
Far easier to prove involvement when there is a written record, rather than evidence of you entering a building (you might have other reasons to be there).
Rule #2: If the customer is...
Personally if my customer was using my services to figure out the optimal time to kill someone in a way that also kills their family, and my employees were collectively protesting that, I would just decline their money.
Morality is a social construct. The selfish gene is a biological construct.
Good. You're there to work. It also feels uniquely selfish. "I love the money but I still want to protest!" If you feel so strongly then quit but that would require sacrifice.
If your goal is to change the companies behavior, then protesting and getting fired and getting a WaPo story is more effective than resigning in protest.
I think it's silly that people will protest like this with the expectation that they won't immediately get fired but that's the play if you want to make noise.