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Didn’t they literally strike that word out from their motto overnight. I believe I recall them removing it from the handbook but I’m not sure.
by asimpletune 8y ago
Didn’t they literally strike that word out from their motto overnight. I believe I recall them removing it from the handbook but I’m not sure.
- Animats 8y agoYes, right after they got caught helping drug pushers and had to pay a $500,000,000 fine.[1] "Google executives, including CEO Larry Page, knew about this stuff and condoned it": "Mr. Page, now Google’s chief executive, knew about the illicit conduct, said Mr. Neronha, the U.S. attorney for Rhode Island who led the multiagency federal task force that conducted the sting. “We simply know from the documents we reviewed and witnesses we interviewed that Larry Page knew what was going on,” he said in an interview after the August settlement… “Suffice to say this was not two or three rogue employees at the customer service level doing this on their own,” said Mr. Neronha, the U.S. attorney. “This was corporate decision to engage in this conduct.”" This is way, way beyond most company scandals. It made the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Page could have ended up doing federal prison time. [1] https://archives.cjr.org/the_audit/the_journal_takes_us_inside_th.php https://archives.cjr.org/the_audit/the_journal_takes_us_insi...