Oh good, so Google has stopped all political donations and canceled all government contracts so they can stay out politics?
No? Ok fuck you.
"The workplace isn't for politics" is about social etiquette, not criticizing what your own company is taking part in you stupid fuck.
"Google isnt the place for your politics. It is only a place for my politics. So get in line with my thinking or get the fuck out!" - Googles Chief Cunt.
"The workplace isn't for politics" says company that exerts coercive political power to expel its (ex-)workers for disagreeing.
Well maybe Google shouldn’t take political contracts.
Everything is politics, especially the mega corpos that lobbies the governments of the world.
The only problem is that many people can't afford to be fired because of them.
It's about making money for executives and shitting on the employees that do the actual work.
I don't get the comment here, they didn't 'express their opinion' about Israel. They behaved like a bunch of lunatics within Google's offices. If you want to protest Google's actions send a signed letter of resignation stating the reason, send it to the press and form a union of techies that won't work for companies that work with Israel recursively.
On a side note, I like how none of them mind building mass surveillance tools, pushing ads, Google-China relations, etc... But Israel's genocide is trending, so they jump on that. What a bunch of shallow fucks.
My god they really hit the home run with a brand new excuse just to fire a few more people huh?
“Officially, of course, I have no opinion.”
Riiight... the fact that corporations are petty dictatorships isn't political at all.
Right.
Massive respect to the workers who sacrificed their jobs to highlight Google's scummy behaviour.
Is it really that surprising? Since when profit isnt the highest value?
I'm shocked that people are only just now finding out that massive companies like Google are evil. Google replaced don't be evil with be evil.
Never worked for one of the big tech firms, but I have been in the working world for ~16 years and one of the few things anyone that has been around for awhile can and will agree on is you don't talk about salary within earshot of the boss, you don't badmouth company decisions within earshot of the boss, you don't talk about politically charged topics, and you certainly don't combine 2 of those 3 and protest company decisions on politically charged issues literally in the office.
You also don't do those things on company provided equipment, software, or services. If you want to bitch about something the company is doing, you go out to lunch or do it after hours, preferably without written or video evidence.
While I think it is gross that Google fired them for this, given the history of the company almost encouraging such things, I can say these people just got a hard lesson that most of us learn about the corporate world long before we make it to working for the likes of Google.
Rightly or wrongly freedom of speech, assembly, etc protects you from the Government, not your boss. And your boss is a petty little ego maniac that controls your livelihood, so best to stay out of his gaze on matters you know he/she would view negatively where at all possible.
