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[–] [email protected] 295 points 7 months ago (3 children)

If it wasn't for politics then they shouldn't take government contracts

[–] [email protected] 215 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 72 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 133 points 7 months ago

Or fire people because of politics.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago

I'm just hearing Google advocating for a strict ban on lobbyism.

I mean, otherwise it's discrimination, no?

[–] [email protected] 164 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The workplace, or at least career progression, is like 50% politics lol. Google is no different.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And working on stuff that never gets shipped/used is demoralising too. No product to be proud of making/maintaining etc.

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[–] [email protected] 129 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would argue that firing them seems like a pretty strong political statement.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Insightful 👍

[–] [email protected] 117 points 7 months ago

Oh good, so Google has stopped all political donations and canceled all government contracts so they can stay out politics?

No? Ok fuck you.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

"THE WORKPLACE IS NOT FOR POLITICS"

— With love, your employer who is investing amounts of money beyond your comprehension in a government of a country now being tried for genocide with undenial and ongoing human rights violations.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

But you see, Google isn't doing it for political reasons.

They're doing it for money.

They don't care who wins or loses, what's right or left, good or bad as long as they get that cheddar.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 7 months ago (40 children)

Ok, so if I find out I work for Nazi contractor and object to that, it is politics?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes. What about that do you think is non-political? Abhorrent politics are still politics.

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[–] namingthingsiseasy 78 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Sounds to me like these tech workers could really use a good union to protect them.....

[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago

Why do you need to bring politics into it?

/s

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 7 months ago

"The workplace isn't for politics" is about social etiquette, not criticizing what your own company is taking part in you stupid fuck.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

"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.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

"The workplace isn't for politics" says company that exerts coercive political power to expel its (ex-)workers for disagreeing.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] Since most people spend most of their best hours at the workplace, what this person is really saying is that there shouldn't be any politics at all. I.e., this is a confession: "I am an authoritarian".

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

google the company needs to be garroted with their old "don't be evil" line.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

Don’t ~~be evil~~ tell me your opinions

Don’t ask don’t tell in corporate form!

[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago

Well maybe Google shouldn’t take political contracts.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Again the excuse of 'no politics'

YOU CAN'T AVOID POLITICS

Accepting contracts from Israel is just as political as denying contracts from Israel. You just stated your political stance by accepting. Why do people think it's a free copout?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"Workplace is not for politics" is just doublespeak for "We don't value ethics here"

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

"Politics is everything I disagree with"

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The little-known genocide assistance exception to “don’t be evil.” You have to read the fine print these days.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (5 children)

They dropped that line some time ago

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Weird how all the right wingers that constantly yell about how silencing nazis is censorship are suddenly very quiet when a ceo comes out and explicitly says you will be fired for your speech.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It is on course for conservatives. It's all about their freedom of speech not anyone else's freedom of speech.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's about making money for executives and shitting on the employees that do the actual work.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

My god they really hit the home run with a brand new excuse just to fire a few more people huh?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (7 children)

I'm honestly somewhat surprised that these firings haven't triggered a mass walkout or something at Google offices yet. They're being very cavalier with employees they spend so much effort (at least historically) on keeping in the office to work "free" hours.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I see the alt-right is out of school early today!

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

“Officially, of course, I have no opinion.”

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Massive respect to the workers who sacrificed their jobs to highlight Google's scummy behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Riiight... the fact that corporations are petty dictatorships isn't political at all.

Right.

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