Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, shuts forum
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#2> Google fired an employee who disrupted an Israel executive’s conference keynote this week, CNBC has learned.
Rightfully so. Name me the big tech company who wouldn't fire such an employee instantly.
Re: Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, shuts forum
#3It seems unlikely that Google could do anything but fire a person who called his company out during an external PR event.
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#4During a keynote speech, an employee in the company’s cloud division protested publicly, proclaiming “I refuse to build technology that powers genocide.” The Google Cloud engineer was subsequently fired, CNBC has learned, marking another dark moment for Google
In grade school, it was universally known that if you use violence before attempting to run away, you're getting in trouble. I don't know why companies haven't made an equally clear universal rule that "if you say something publicly before running it by us, you're getting fired".
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#5Why is employee dissent such a problem in google and not a problem in other companies?
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#6This seems pretty reasonable as falling under the “unprofessional behavior” intelligent behavior.
In my org, if I disrupted someone’s presentation over any topic I’d be fired. Or maybe severely reprimanded.
This behavior surprises me because these are private orgs. So doing unprofessional things will result in firings or whatnot.
It seems odd to me that people think it’s appropriate to protest within a company. If you don’t want to “build technology that powers genocide” (kind of comical considering how huge and pervasive google is) then quit. Similarly if I don’t want to make bombs, I shouldn’t work for a bomb company.
Finally, it just seems stupid to think this would change corporate decision making. What kind of reasoning and logic ends up with “disrupt a meeting -> google changes business policy regarding Israel?”
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#7Why is employee dissent such a problem in google and not a problem in other companies?
because the company pitched itself as "socially responsible" and attracted a large number of people who believed they could work there and change the world to look like what they wanted it, and then google sort of changed directions for business purposes that aren't compatible.
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#8>“This behavior is not okay,
_regardless of the issue,_ and the employee was terminated for violating our policies.”
There are some issues that are worth speaking up about. There are some issues that are worth being fired over.
Re: Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, shuts forum
#9During a keynote speech, an employee in the company’s cloud division protested publicly, proclaiming “I refuse to build technology that powers genocide.” The Google Cloud engineer was subsequently fired, CNBC has learned, marking another dark moment for Google In grade school, it was universally known that if you use violence before attempting to run away, you're getting in trouble. I don't know why companies haven't…
Don’t they though? People pretty consistently get fired over this.
I had to go through training that said what happens if I do something like this.
Re: Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, shuts forum
#10> Google fired an employee who disrupted an Israel executive’s conference keynote this week, CNBC has learned. Rightfully so. Name me the big tech company who wouldn't fire such an employee instantly.
Why would a big tech company be hosting an event with a state committing genocide? That (and working with said regime) is the problem, not people protesting.
It's not possible to be a consumer brand and support Israel. The world is too divided and it's not getting any less so.