Why is employee dissent such a problem in google and not a problem in other companies?
"Do no evil" went out the backdoor a long time ago
Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, shuts forum
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#12The engineer refused to be directly complicit in Genocide and we punish him?
Irony is we applaud those whom resisted Nazism. Rightly.
I invite everyone to read Norman Finelstein whos father was a resistor to Nazism explain the similarities to concentration camps and Gaza.
https://theintercept.com/2018/05/20/norman-finkelstein-gaza-...
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#13I think it completely make sense. Google is private company and it was private event. No matter how important your message, you cannot go to any event stop people from doing business.
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#14All power to that engineer. From an HR standpoint, Google might be right, in the same way that VW would have been right to fire an employee who disrupted meetings when they built cars for the Nazi regime.
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#15>“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.
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#16Why 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.
Also, because lots of people work there. And also, it isn't true that it's unique to them.
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#17I’m sure he expected to be fired over this. If he didn’t he’s a coward.
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#18This 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 yo…
Regarding your last question: we just went through a period where shaming people publicly had huge effects. However, partially as a result of that, and other important factors, people changed their tolerance and rage parameters in a way that is less likely to call for change in the progressive direction.
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#19Another big tech, big money, little conscience problem. So disappointing that there is so much willingness to make money regardless of what it supports but that that courtesy is not extended to those who do the actual money making.
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#20Why 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.
Also I think the "we are all Google" borg/hivemind thing plays a part, other companies like Amazon or Apple are organized more like a lot of smaller companies so when people join they have different expectations towards corporate and feedback up and down and internal dissent work different.