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huginn@feddit.it ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

They didn’t drop it. It was still in the handbook in 2022 when I signed it.

People like to claim they dropped it: but it’s still there.

Now since I was laid off in the mass 2023 wave I can’t speak to it’s current state but I’d be shocked if they removed it.

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realbadat@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It was dropped by alphabet from their handbook.

Almost 10 years ago iirc.

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- huginn@feddit.it ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  My guy I literally worked there and signed the employee handbook. Don’t Be Evil was right before you signed if I remember right. Regardless: it is 100% in the handbook.
  
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  - realbadat@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Alphabet <> Google.
    
    The parent company, Alphabet, removed it from the handbook. I couldn’t tell you if they put it back in, but Alphabet removed it about 10 years ago.
    
    This is not some conspiracy theory, it was released, they replaced that section of the handbook.
    
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    huginn@feddit.it ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    The original motto was retained in Google’s code of conduct, now a subsidiary of Alphabet. Between 21 April and 4 May 2018, the motto was removed from the code of conduct’s preface and retained in its last sentence.[6]
    
    The original motto was retained.
    
    You’re mistaking “it’s not the first line” with “it got removed”
    
    Linking news articles from click bait sites doesn’t help your argument.
    
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