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Google nixes paying out rest of medical leave for laid-off employees

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And people wonder why birth rates are falling and people are afraid to make long term commitments. Corporations like this don't deserve any loyalty. If I worked there and anybody offered to pay me even a few percent more, I'd leave in a heartbeat. I probably wouldn't even work hard, only the bare minimum to not get fired, because why should I? In conservative media this this is being spun as "nobody wants to work any…

Do you keep paying a plumber once they complete their job? As employee I enter into mutually beneficial (and in case of IT and FAANG - extremely beneficial) contract knowing that I can be fired once the company deems my services no longer necessary. The backlash comes from highest educated, best skilled people who received high salaries and who have great prospects of being hired again quickly. Why they suffer? Shoul…

If you hire people as disposable automatons and show no goodwill or loyalty, they will naturally do the minimum necessary not to get fired. So you need to add managers on top to make sure automatons don’t slack. But managers also cost you, and they will try to game the system all the same. So you add cameras and build butt detectors into chairs to see how much time people spend away.

For an employee, it is an arms race to dystopia slowed down by mountains of government regulation. For your business, it will never benefit from any employee’s full potential.

Free market only works if people value good will, good faith, reputation. Embracing a lack of these values puts you on a road that one way or another leads to authoritarianism or oppression.

Re: Google nixes paying out rest of medical leave for laid-off employees

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you keep paying a plumber once they complete their job? As employee I enter into mutually beneficial (and in case of IT and FAANG - extremely beneficial) contract knowing that I can be fired once the company deems my services no longer necessary. The backlash comes from highest educated, best skilled people who received high salaries and who have great prospects of being hired again quickly. Why they suffer? Shoul…

> Do you keep paying a plumber once they complete their job? The analogy is flawed. You pay him until he completes his job. Or he will be pissed. Google is telling the plumber to leave before the agreed upon work is done.

The plumber analogy is flawed but yours is not much better. When is the agreed work done for an employee? Employees are not hired to complete a specific job like a plumber is.

Re: Google nixes paying out rest of medical leave for laid-off employees

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Why should Google pay maternity leave for laid off workers? They are no longer employees once they're laid off. At the very most they deserve a severence.

This comment is probably the best explanation of how American capitalism is effective at self-propagate its tenets through the confidence of those it screws over the most.

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That’s a term for the natural mother of a child who is later adopted. You could also consider surrogacy. There are many ways families are constructed.

@procinct posted a definition that disagrees with you.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/birth%20parent

This seems to be a problem with these new "woke" words or however you'd like to describe them.

They seem unnatural and sudden which is why everyone is confused.

Re: Google nixes paying out rest of medical leave for laid-off employees

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Why should Google pay maternity leave for laid off workers? They are no longer employees once they're laid off. At the very most they deserve a severence.

because people plan their family around things like maternity leave and rely on these actually being honored. what should they do now, get un-pregnant?

Re: Google nixes paying out rest of medical leave for laid-off employees

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That’s a term for the natural mother of a child who is later adopted. You could also consider surrogacy. There are many ways families are constructed.

@procinct posted a definition that disagrees with you. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/birth%20parent This seems to be a problem with these new "woke" words or however you'd like to describe them. They seem unnatural and sudden which is why everyone is confused.

From that link: “ the natural father or mother of a child who has been adopted”

How does that disagree with me?

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