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> 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.
This is why we need tech unions. We should be able to take an ethical stance without getting fired.
I don't think such behavior would be tolerated most anywhere.
My old manager put it best: No politics and religion in the workplace. Seriously, it's as simple as that. We are here to work, not philosophize about politics and current events.
Hosting an event with Israel is politics.
During 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…
Why is employee dissent such a problem in google and not a problem in other companies?
> 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.
> Rightfully so. Name me the big tech company who wouldn't fire such an employee instantly. Just because something is done by most companies doesn't make it okay. Are mass layoffs "rightful" in any sense of that word?
Mass layoffs are part of the Faustian bargain you accept when you sign the offer letter to work at the behemoths of capitalism. These are the biggest like top 10 companies in the whole world.
It’s just business.
But then again even those making 400k plus TC make appeals to emotion instead of rational thinking.
There are plenty of jobs for these people where they can make 200k TC and not risk getting fired, which is still a good salary.
If you want more and more, you must play with the devil. It’s really not that complicated.
My old manager put it best: No politics and religion in the workplace. Seriously, it's as simple as that. We are here to work, not philosophize about politics and current events.
Supporting a state, that is actively committing a genocide, with cloud services is a political choice.
This 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…
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This is why we need tech unions. We should be able to take an ethical stance without getting fired.
They weren't fired for taking a stance, they were fired for how they took the stance.
Why is employee dissent such a problem in google and not a problem in other companies?
> 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.
> Rightfully so. Name me the big tech company who wouldn't fire such an employee instantly. Just because something is done by most companies doesn't make it okay. Are mass layoffs "rightful" in any sense of that word?
People can rightly protest the way layoffs are conducted but the idea that a company is "wrongful" to have a layoff sometimes is silly.