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I think that's an issue many seemed to have overlooked about the whole "Google Memo" thing. Your personal views are just that personal. It's something you shoul

I think that's an issue many seemed to have overlooked about the whole "Google Memo" thing. Your personal views are just that personal. It's something you should be doing on your own time. When you're at work you're going to have to deal with different personality types and differing personal opinions. Part of being a professional is being able to set your personal opinions aside and focus on the job. It would be analogous to someone sending out a memo asking if everyone excepts Jesus Christ in to their hearts as their personal lord and savior and saying they're going to hell if they don't. It's fine to have political, social or religious views, but the workplace isn't really an appropriate place to bring those things to attention.

lhnz 9y ago
Diversity seminars and population distribution memos are fine. People ought to be allowed to take their personal opinions and speak them at their workplace. What isn't fine is attempting to cause economic harm to someone for espousing a non-violent perspective. If their perspective is to constructively point out your natural ineffectiveness at a task, I can see why you would want to avoid them speaking, but it's an avoidance of criticism and will eventually be fatal to the censor as has historically been proven to be the case again and again.
- microwavecamera 9y ago
  But there's a hierarchy in a company. If you want to raise an issue you need to go through the proper channels. You're just there to do a job. If you don't like it you can leave. I've left jobs because I didn't agree with management. No one is forcing you to be there. This is just how the corporate world is. Corporations are not democracies and you are expendable. I'm not saying it's right, but it's just how things are and you shouldn't expect anything less. This is why I left the corporate world. Google is actually one of the better places to work. It gets much worse, trust me.
chippy 9y ago
The Jesus Christ analogy doesn't quite hold as that hypothetical memo doesn't criticise the business practices. Perhaps "A memo asking if everyone excepts Jesus Christ in to their hearts as their personal lord and savior as there are studies showing that people who believe in one god are more effective in working together" ?

lhnz 9y ago

Diversity seminars and population distribution memos are fine. People ought to be allowed to take their personal opinions and speak them at their workplace. What isn't fine is attempting to cause economic harm to someone for espousing a non-violent perspective. If their perspective is to constructively point out your natural ineffectiveness at a task, I can see why you would want to avoid them speaking, but it's an avoidance of criticism and will eventually be fatal to the censor as has historically been proven to be the case again and again.

microwavecamera 9y ago
But there's a hierarchy in a company. If you want to raise an issue you need to go through the proper channels. You're just there to do a job. If you don't like it you can leave. I've left jobs because I didn't agree with management. No one is forcing you to be there. This is just how the corporate world is. Corporations are not democracies and you are expendable. I'm not saying it's right, but it's just how things are and you shouldn't expect anything less. This is why I left the corporate world. Google is actually one of the better places to work. It gets much worse, trust me.

chippy 9y ago

The Jesus Christ analogy doesn't quite hold as that hypothetical memo doesn't criticise the business practices. Perhaps "A memo asking if everyone excepts Jesus Christ in to their hearts as their personal lord and savior as there are studies showing that people who believe in one god are more effective in working together" ?