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The suit goes into much more than just a confidentiality agreement. It doesn't allege that only the agreement is the source for those points. The evidence and
by randomdrake 10y ago
The suit goes into much more than just a confidentiality agreement. It doesn't allege that only the agreement is the source for those points.
The evidence and facts brought up are:
1) A quote from his offer letter.
2) The confidentiality agreement.
3) A Code of Conduct policy for "internal purposes only."
4) Data Classification Guidelines.
6) Employee Communication Policy.
7) Training programs including one called "You Said What?"
8) "Prepare to leave Google" policy.
9) "Exit Certification" note upon termination.
10) A "Global Investigations Team" led by Brian Katz.
11) "Stopleaks."
12) Quotes from all hands meetings.
13) Alleged amendment of a policy in response to his letter to Labor Workforce and Development Agency violations.
- jasoncheng 10y ago14) Literally getting fired for discussing terms, wages, and working conditions of employment 15) Lawyers telling employees to STFU on discussion threads about legal problems in the news
- oh_sigh 10y agoWho got fired for that? We have people who started a spreadsheet where googlers can post their salary/total comp and they are still working at google.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoThe former Googler who started that spreadsheet faced retaliation from management for that spreadsheet, actually. "Former Google employee Erica Baker revealed in a flurry of messages on Twitter Friday that she faced retaliation from management after compiling a spreadsheet of employee salaries." http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/21/ex-google-employee-exposes-unequal-pay-with-spreadsheet/ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/21/ex-google-employee-ex...
- oh_sigh 10y agoThat was one side of the story - presumably there is another side of the story. Since she left, there is another spreadsheet going around, and the maintainers are all still working at google AFAIK
- jasoncheng 10y agoJohn Doe. See [0] and the article that it links to. Try posting that spreadsheet on the internet and see what happens. [0] https://www.theinformation.com/employee-lawsuit-accuses-google-of-spying-program https://www.theinformation.com/employee-lawsuit-accuses-goog...
- vitus 10y agoWell, in particular, that one line I cited from the confidentiality agreement makes me suspicious of claimed Legal Violations #6-8 (regarding disclosure of wages). And certainly claimed Legal Violation #2 also falls flat when you consider that these are trade secrets protected by the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, and leaking trade secrets is illegal. #3 and #4 is contradicted by the presence of the Protected Activity section in the same confidentiality agreement, which permit such activity. I'm not about to comb through supporting documents just to disprove the rest of the claims; we have lawyers whose job is to do that. But since I can relatively easily find contradictions between what I have readily available and what the lawsuit is asserting, I have doubts that the underlying lawsuit really holds much weight.