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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

What’s dystopian about it? Employees violated company policy and they were fired because of it. There are acceptable and unacceptable ways to handle it, and those employees chose to handle it unprofessionally.

If they want to protest on their own time and on public property, they should have every right. But protesting on company property shouldn’t have any special protections.

I’m no fan of Google and I think their business choices are despicable, but that doesn’t change the fact that first amendment protections do not apply in a typical workplace, they only serve to restrict government action. So it’s completely unsurprising that Google fired employees who destroyed company property and disrupted the work environment.

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SulaymanF@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Google PRIDES itself on progressivism and diversity. From transgender visibility to veganism. Google showered Ukrainian and Israeli employees with support and gave them a platform, but Palestinian supporters were left out. Say Ukrainians are dying and google will support you and even donate for you. Protest Google’s military contract that kills Palestinian civilians and violates the company ethics policies and you get fired?

This will blemish google’s reputation for a long time to come. IBM is still in the history books as helping the Nazis.

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- melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  google needs to stop being a thing.
  
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- sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Google prides itself on making money and attracting top talent. Destructive and disruptive protests negatively impacts both. So AFAICT, they weren’t fired for the content of their speech, but the manner in which they chose to express it (i.e. disrupting business).
  
  I doubt they wouldn’t can fired for taking time off to protest outside company property, it was likely due to their choice to damage and disrupt work in the buildings.
  
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  - SulaymanF@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    We all know that’s inconsistent. If employees wanted to take time off to grieve for the LGBT deaths at the Pulse nightclub shooting, the company would have supported them. Would they have done the same for people grieving over dead Palestinian children, or fire them for not meeting their work requirements or ‘disrupting business’? Would Google fire employees who staged a sit-in over anti-Semitism in the workplace?
    
    Google broke their corporate ethics by allying with a military for a lucrative contract; employees SHOULD be calling them out on it.
    
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dutchkimble@lemy.lol ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think it’s the part where they are ready to go to the extent of hiring a T800 from the future to kill your mother before you were born

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- sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I thought they were talking about the firing.
  
  I totally agree with Google’s partnership with Israel being dystopic.
  
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  - dutchkimble@lemy.lol ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yes, I was only joking…
    
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Crikeste@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Being apolitical is a political stance.

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AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
🤓 Employees violated company policy

Goddamn, the boot licking and cock sucking action here could generate a whole new PornHub category

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melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
dumbasses should’ve just sabotaged the project, or stolen as much as they could get away with. maybe leaked it.

I agree.

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- sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s certainly smarter. Openly committing crimes is rarely the right approach.
  
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