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Other employees doesn't like leakers because they're selfish and immature. The leaker gets to continue to work their cushy software job while forcing PR people
by Aunche 9y ago
Other employees doesn't like leakers because they're selfish and immature. The leaker gets to continue to work their cushy software job while forcing PR people to work overtime. "Leaks" like this don't help anyone besides journalists anyways. The most obvious example is the Jame Damore diversity "manifesto." I can't conceive of how that leak was supposed to accomplish anything but generate controversy.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoLeaking Damore's memo worked exactly as the leaker almost certainly intended, as Cromwell points out below: It got him fired, which is what many Googlers were demanding internally before it became public.
- Aunche 9y agoAnd do you think that Googlers shouldn't be mad at the leaker?
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoI definitely know of both Googlers happy it leaked and Googlers upset it leaked. At 70,000 some-odd employees, "Googlers" isn't a homogenous group. Google, as a corporate entity, definitely did not gain from the leak, and certainly would've preferred it not leak.
- Aunche 9y agoYou implied that the attitude towards discouraging leaks is cultish, but it seems rational to me.
- dingaling 9y ago> while forcing PR people to work overtime As opposed to doing what else? Emptying bins? They are employed to spin news for the benefit of the corporation. They have risk assessments and plans-of-action for the most likely eventualties. Their job is to do exactly what they've been doing in response to this leak.
- Aunche 9y agoA janitor is employed to clean. That doesn't mean you should throw your garbage on the floor.