Business Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics - 😂

SAN FRANCISCO — Google fired about 20 more workers it said participated in protests denouncing the company’s cloud computing deal with the Israeli government, bringing the total number of workers fired in the past week over the issue to more than 50, according to the activist group representing the workers.
A spokesperson for Google confirmed it had fired more workers after continuing its investigation into the April 16 protests, which included sit-ins at Google’s offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, Calif.
The firings come several days after chief executive Sundar Pichai told employees in a companywide memo that they should not use the company as a “personal platform” or “fight over disruptive issues or debate politics.”
“The corporation is attempting to quash dissent, silence its workers and reassert its power over them,” said Jane Chung, a spokesperson for No Tech for Apartheid, a group that has protested Google’s and Amazon’s contracts with the Israeli government since 2021

The protests at Google are among a wave of opposition to the U.S. government and corporations working with the Israeli government and military. Pro-Palestinian protesters have been arrested in recent days at Yale and Columbia universities, spurring accusations of heavy-handedness by university officials and inspiring another wave of demonstrations at other colleges around the country. The day before the Google sit-ins, activists blocked highways, bridges and airport entrances across the United States to protest the war in Gaza.
At Google, the situation has become a public fight between Google managers and the fired employees. Google says that each worker it fired actively disrupted its offices, while the workers dispute the claims, saying some of those fired did not even enter the company’s office on the day of coordinated demonstrations against the company.
Google has fired workers in the past who publicly criticized the company, but it has not fired this many people at once. For years, Google had a reputation as the most free and open among the Big Tech companies in terms of office culture and collaboration. The company celebrated an internal culture in which employees knew what other teams were working on and were encouraged to question the decisions of leaders.

In his memo to workers, Pichai said the company’s openness was a strength but applied to work topics, not politics.
“We have a culture of vibrant, open discussion that enables us to create amazing products and turn great ideas into action,” he said in the memo, which the company posted online. “But ultimately we are a workplace and our policies and expectations are clear: this is a business.”

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/22/google-nimbus-israel-protest-fired-workers/?utm_source=reddit.com

 

[Glowing In The Streets]

First they came for the conservatives, and I did nothing because i was not a conservative.
Then they came for the republicans, and I did nothing because i was not a republican.
Then they came for me, a counter semite, and everyone laughed at me

 

[Coldgrip]

Learn to mine coal

Learn to weld

Christ on a cracker, no! You think any of those faggots have enough sense to follow basic safety procedures? They'd be a danger not just to themselves but everybody around them.

 

[Goofy Logic]

I love bringing this wired article up because it provides a detailed history as to why this round of protests are simply not being tolerated anymore by Google management.

First it was political divides and #metoo bringing unfavorable PR to Google but the breaking point was when the lefties in the company forced Google to abandon a Military AI project, which had a financial impact on them. That was when they started dismantling the University campus style atmosphere in favor of a corporate one.

 

[Alter Ego]

The job isn't done until DEI groups in Google are dissolved.

 

[Judas Connor Moon]

The Palestine/Israel conflict unironically has to potential to have San Francisco burned to a crisp. The tension here is rising and with the recent protesting of freeways, citizens here just don't give a fuck anymore. Plus with the coming election, it's a fun time to be a Californian.

I'm always glad to see Google employees suffer though. That's what you get for putting your trust in a soulless, demonic force.

 

[HarblMcDavid]

Oh, they now feel an iota of what conservatives feel all the damn time. Noice.

Casual politics in the office is the one thing that pissed me off more than anything: "liberals" always just assume everyone has their politics and talk about it like sports in my experience, but god forbid anyone else's politics poke their heads out, that's a trip to HR.

If it takes the entire weight of the Super Heebster Influence Machine to dial that shit back I'll take it, but something tells me this pushback ONLY applies to Palestine related shit so I'm not holding my breath.

 

[AssignedEva]

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Everyone in that room is wearing a mask.

 

[AnOminous]

In his memo to workers, Pichai said the company’s openness was a strength but applied to work topics, not politics.
“We have a culture of vibrant, open discussion that enables us to create amazing products and turn great ideas into action,” he said in the memo, which the company posted online. “But ultimately we are a workplace and our policies and expectations are clear: this is a business.”

We need a Semitic content rating, but I'll settle for Semper Fi for this, even if it's a total hoot to see some Google fag the literal CEO who presided over at least a decade of wokeshit say this.

Learn to weld

Learn to suck dick.

Just kidding, they probably already know how to do that.

 

[Broadside]

The Palestine/Israel conflict unironically has to potential to have San Francisco burned to a crisp. The tension here is rising and with the recent protesting of freeways, citizens here just don't give a fuck anymore. Plus with the coming election, it's a fun time to be a Californian.

I'm always glad to see Google employees suffer though. That's what you get for putting your trust in a soulless, demonic force.

They get what they voted for, fuck em

 

[Lil Yappy]

I love bringing this wired article up because it provides a detailed history as to why this round of protests are simply not being tolerated anymore.

First it was political divides and #metoo bringing unfavorable PR to Google but the breaking point was when the lefties in the company forced Google to abandon a Military AI project, which had a financial impact on them. That was when they started dismantling the University campus style atmosphere in favor of a corporate one.

I've always heard that the major tech companies were heavily affiliated with deep government spook shit and this makes me wonder whether the lefties that they employ are starting to become a nuisance for them and their glowie masters.

 

[blablabla]

STOP MAKING DOODLES FOR EVERY UNKNOWN FAGGOT THEN YOU KIKE PIECE OF SHIT

 

[MirrorNoir]

I love bringing this wired article up because it provides a detailed history as to why this round of protests are simply not being tolerated anymore.

First it was political divides and #metoo bringing unfavorable PR to Google but the breaking point was when the lefties in the company forced Google to abandon a Military AI project, which had a financial impact on them. That was when they started dismantling the University campus style atmosphere in favor of a corporate one.

Need you to post the article since it's been paywalled.

 

[X Prime]

You can forgive these losers for being shocked at being fired because normally the workplace at Google is for politics, provided you have the right politics.

Saying this fundamentally mis-states how leftists work.

Their politics aren't actually politics to them, it's just morals.

 

[6 Years Ago]

It continues to be hilarious watching these faggots who called me a "racist chud nazi" for speaking the absolute truth about jews for the past 10 years learn who actually rules over them.

 

[Lord Xenu]

Need you to post the article since it's been paywalled.

You can use 12ft.io to view paywalled news sites. You just type '12ft.io/' in front of the url eg;

12ft.io/https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery-happiest-company-tech/

Archive.today usually strips the paywall as well.

Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech | W…
Nitasha Tiku

The Times investigation also noted Google's overall “permissive culture,” in which top executives—including Brin, Schmidt, and chief legal officer David Drummond—had relationships with female employees. Some of the women claimed they were later pushed out of the company.

Google employees lit up the company's internal social networks, once again contemplating galling facts about the status of women in Silicon Valley. But this time the discussion was less easily derailed, perhaps because some of the most important exchanges took place on an anonymous mailing list called Expectant New Moms. The group's 4,000 members knew the stories about Rubin and Singhal—thanks in part to email threads on the list after each executive departed. But Rubin's $90 million payout felt like a sucker punch. The fact that leaders' misconduct had been an open secret made it worse. Why had they given so many years of their lives to make these men insanely rich?

At 2:05 pm, Claire Stapleton, then a product marketing manager at YouTube, fired off a message to the group: “absolutely disgusting—all of it, all of them. topple the patriarchy.”

That day Alphabet was already poised to share some mixed financial news. The company was set to report $9.19 billion in profits for the third quarter, thanks in part to Trump's tax cuts to benefit big business, but missed revenue targets. Now executives scrambled to do damage control with employees before the earnings call. A couple of hours after the Times story was published, Pichai sent a memo assuring employees that Google had reformed its ways. In the past two years, he wrote, 48 people had been terminated for sexual harassment, including 13 at the senior manager level or higher, none of whom received an exit package. Employees were skeptical. If Google was so committed to a safe environment, why was DeVaul still there? (A Google spokesperson said HR investigated the allegation “thoroughly and took appropriate corrective action.”)

That same evening, Page—who was CEO when the claims about Rubin, Singhal, and DeVaul came to light—apologized to employees at a TGIF. “I've had to make a lot of decisions that affect people every day, some of them not easy. And, you know, I think certainly there's ones with the benefit of hindsight I would have made differently,” he said in a prepared statement. Page's explanation was evasive, but his tone was serious. Brin, on the other hand, made an awkward joke about confidentiality, which sounded to some as if he were blaming the leakers, and seemed irked by the fact that the same question came up over and over again when the executives had nothing new to say. The meeting soon returned to business as usual with a product demo for new Google Photo features.

For Stapleton, the meeting was a huge letdown. Her first job at Google, in 2007, had been to help lead TGIF, including writing talking points for Page and Brin. Now they couldn't even answer the main question. At 7:58 pm, Stapleton fired off another message to the list suggesting the moms channel their anger into collective action, like maybe a walkout, a strike, or an open letter. “Googler women (and allies) are REALLY ragefueled right now, and I wonder how we can harness that to force some, like, real change.”

As the women dissected the TGIF performance, they also swapped stories about reporting harassment to Google HR, only to watch their abusers receive promotions. The messages were still rolling in at 1 am.
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The next morning, Stapleton started a Google Group. “Welcome to ground zero of the google women's walkout / a day without women (naming/branding tbd).” Just as with the travel ban walkout 21 months earlier, word spread quickly. A group of eight organizers emerged, including Meredith Whittaker, and they got to work planning logistics, hammering out demands, and fine-tuning their message. Stapleton set up a Google form to ask employees why they were walking out. The 350 responses that promptly poured in included personal stories about harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and pay inequity.

From those responses and other internal posts, the organizers smelted together five core demands. They wanted an end to forced arbitration, a process that compelled employees to bring their claims to a private arbiter, paid for by Google, rather than before a judge. They also demanded pay equity and policies that would guarantee more transparency around harassment claims. They scrubbed personal details from the 350 stories and divided them into buckets that mapped to each demand, so the rally organizers would have something to read.

As the plans came together, Google invited Stapleton to join a meeting with three top female executives: Ruth Porat, the company's chief financial officer; Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube; and Eileen Naughton, the head of people operations. The invitation was brokered by the head of Women at Google, an employee resource group, who told Stapleton it was an amazing opportunity. Other walkout organizers disagreed. Google was just trying to co-opt their momentum, the organizers felt. Stapleton pushed off the request. “It feels weird to say no to these women who are, like, Illuminati,” she said.

On Tuesday evening, two days before the walkout, Pichai sent another memo: “One thing that's become clear to me is that our apology at TGIF didn't come through, and it wasn't enough.” He acknowledged the protest and told employees they would have the support they needed.

The plan was for each office to walk out at 11:10 am on November 1, 2018. By the time the first images came in from Asia, it was clear that the call hadn't merely mobilized the lefties in Mountain View. In Singapore, where labor law prohibits workers from marching, employees stood in a cavernous office lobby, somber and listening intently to the speakers. In New York City, employees streamed out from Google's Eighth Avenue office into a nearby park. Whittaker and Stapleton stood on chairs as they rallied the crowd. Their megaphone was no match for the noise from the West Side Highway, but chants of “Time's up!” rose above the din.

When it came time for Mountain View to rally, 4,000 Google employees filled the courtyard outside the main café, once again chanting and holding signs, including ones designed by volunteers from Google Creative Lab that said “HAPPY TO QUIT FOR $90M—NO SEXUAL HARASSMENT REQUIRED” in a fresh, sans-serif font. Standing a few yards from where Pichai and Brin had stood during the travel ban walkout in 2017, employees once again shared their stories. A female YouTube employee described being drugged by a coworker at a company event, then being told by HR that she had to stay on the same team. This time, no executive stepped up to the mic. No one chanted their names.

(Archive)

 

[Peepeepoopoo Witch]

We need a Semitic content rating, but I'll settle for Semper Fi for this, even if it's a total hoot to see some Google fag the literal CEO who presided over at least a decade of wokeshit say this.

Learn to suck dick.

Just kidding, they probably already know how to do that.

They probably can't do that right either.

 

[Justa Grata Honoria]

Saying this fundamentally mis-states how leftists work.

Their politics aren't actually politics to them, it's just morals.

Its religion their so called politics is religion

 

[TowinKarz]

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That picture belongs in the dictionary, next to the world "Flotsam"

Also, check out the galaxy-brain on the very end: "Mask, hat, glasses, they'll NEVER know it was me!" while employee ID is hanging from belt........

 

[AnotherPleb]

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Everyone in that room is wearing a mask.

When I imagine the smell I understand why they cling to the masks for dear life.

 

[Haramburger]

Maybe they can put a "The Workplace Isn't For Politics" themed doodle on the google front page.

That would interfere with the usual nigger-worship-but-purple images we get