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Aren't people worried that they'll all be fired for protesting? People are within their rights to protest in public places, of course, but not on private prope
by analognoise 8y ago
Aren't people worried that they'll all be fired for protesting?
People are within their rights to protest in public places, of course, but not on private property and certainly not on the clock.
I'm not sure how it works from the business's perspective, but couldn't Google just get rid of all those people at once? Is that legal to do?
From Google's perspective, if they just fired all these people, there would be some blowback but there would be no future walkouts/protests/disruptions at work. There are plenty of smart people who would take those jobs at Google in a heartbeat.
Can someone explain this to me? Like if I did this at any place I've ever worked, I'd be gone in an instant.
- 345218435 8y ago„sexual harassment!“ gets you a long way.
- v7p1Qbt1im 8y agoMany Google employees are basically the most sought after people in their respective fields. Google spends obscene amounts to recruit and then retain the best possible workforce. Many of these engineers could barly raise their hand and would get hundreds of offers from competitors. As such they have much more leverage and get paid a lot more than employees at even other tech companies outside FAANG. It is in Google‘s interest to generally retain a maximum possible number of employees. Because there‘s a limited supply and also because you don‘t want them working at your competitor. In the weirdest scenarios you might end up in some really kafkaesque situatuon where you earn like 300 to 500k a year for basically not doing that much. The main thing is that you stay put and don’t go work for someone else. Maybe you’ve seen HBO’s Silicon Valley. Kind of like Big Head on the roof.