Well maybe Google shouldn’t take political contracts.
Sounds to me like these tech workers could really use a good union to protect them…
Sounds like political talk
Sounds like political talk
There was a subset of Google contractors trying to unionize but while the group was campaigning at city hall. Google executives decided to not renew the contract and all of them were jobless.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/01/youtube-union-contractor-layoffs/
Why do you need to bring politics into it?
/s
The pendulum is swinging back hard. Let’s just hope we don’t end up way deep into the danger since zone just because woke idiots couldn’t leave “good enough” alone.
Lol I can’t help but laugh at the disparity between the left vs. the right, when it comes to just general ability to speak coherently. Like is this even a coherent thought?
Like this is the best they’ve got. I guess it’s no wonder then that charlatans like Jordan Peterson can sink their hooks in so easily.
Good enough alone… Please elaborate on that.
If you are a woman, do you think society was in better shape in 2012 or today? Standing Confederate monuments, hostility to trans people, and all?
That’s kind of a word salad there. In 2012 things may have been generally better for women in the USA due to Roe v. Wade standing, and there were more Confederate monuments than there are standing now, and trans people were generally not accepted by society as well as they are now. So I’m not sure what your point was.
The mixture is my point. Some things are better. Some things are worse. I specified for women because the backlash against woke has already hurt women badly.
The republiclowns taking away womens rights and blaming trans and gay people for their problems is much worse now than in 2012. This country lacks education which would solve all these problems, but educated people won’t blindly follow fox “news” and as a result there wouldn’t be many republicans in office which is why they’re doing everything they can along with help from Russia to hurt the education system and keep people ignorant. The result of better education would likely mean we’d step out of third world territory and get healthcare for all, including mental health which would increase the blue votes even more all the while decreasing mass shootings.
That doesn’t fly with the rich. Why do you pay more taxes than the rich? Trickle down? How’s that working out? They piss in your face and tell you it’s a trans persons fault, or an immigrant and the cult gets their pitchforks. It’s silly. It’s almost as silly as the gop backing a fucking domestic terrorist with 91 FELONIES.
that’s nice. it’s nice that we care about the fate of employees at the company that destroyed the internet and made search useless because they preferred prostitution, and is now supporting genocide for financial reasons (Don’t Be Evil!) but, how do we fire google?
If the internet were the sun and google the moon, then we’ve been under an eclipse since the day of their IPO. I wanna see the fucking sun again. I’m so sick of enshittification and “corporate behaviour” in general
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.
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I see the alt-right is out of school early today!
Still waiting for first period to start
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.
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.
google the company needs to be garroted with their old “don’t be evil” line.
Don’t
be eviltell me your opinionsDon’t ask don’t tell in corporate form!
The workplace, or at least career progression, is like 50% politics lol. Google is no different.
In fact, I’ve heard Google is especially bad here. You only get ahead by shipping a product, and getting a project approved is largely politicking. It’s one of the more political business environments around.
My company seems a lot better. We don’t have aggressive ladder climbing like the big tech firms, we instead value consistency.
You only get ahead by shipping a product, and getting a project approved is largely politicking
Yep - I had a friend who worked for three years at Google, none of the products he worked on ever shipped and eventually he gave up on ever receiving a good salary (bonuses/stock options/etc are supposed to be most of the pay, but you only get that by working on a successful product)
They have ten major campuses worldwide that focus on product development, but only one of those actually ships products regularly.
And working on stuff that never gets shipped/used is demoralising too. No product to be proud of making/maintaining etc.
It’s the digital equivalent of working in a coalmine.
If it wasn’t for politics then they shouldn’t take government contracts
I’m just hearing Google advocating for a strict ban on lobbyism.
I mean, otherwise it’s discrimination, no?
Or lobby.
Indeed ! This Would be much easier to take seriously if Sundar hadn’t meet with Sunak, Modi, Biden et al. In the first year or so since getting the job.
Or fire people because of politics.
The little-known genocide assistance exception to “don’t be evil.” You have to read the fine print these days.
They dropped that line some time ago
If I’m not mistaken there’s a more long winded watered down version at the end of a bunch of bs now. I may be misremembering or out of the loop on subsequent updates and changes though
Yes it’s still there, it was just moved, albeit from a very noticeable position to quite an obscure one.
Gotcha. Yeah thats more or less how I remembered it… 🙃
Its a bummer, I used to consider myself a fan of Google’s direction. But lesson learned I suppose, money is power and power corrupts.
Twenty hard years of spinning on this planet has shown us the truth.
I feel line the turnaround was somewhere around 2008-2010. Before that they seemed a lot more amicable.
