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They're the people making Google work. Why shouldn't they be entitled?
by geofft 7y ago
They're the people making Google work. Why shouldn't they be entitled?
- el_nahual 7y agoBecause Google gives them money in exchange for said work.
- lallysingh 7y agoA sense of entitlement is part of Googler culture. The inside joke was that this was measured for interviewing candidates.
- qntty 7y agoAnd Google employees do the work that keeps the company going. There's no law that says that people can't refuse to do certain kinds of work. You take a job that you expect to give you work that you find acceptable and if that expectation is violated, you resist.
- qntty 7y agoSome people think the leaders of Google are entitled to unilaterally decide what people at Google work on, and if you resist that sense of entitlement, people call you entitled.
- lawnchair_larry 7y agoSeriously? Leaders who hired you and pay you are entitled to direct your work. What planet are you from?
- qntty 7y agoSorry I was taught as a kid that just power is derived from the consent of the governed. Must be weird for some people.
- geodel 7y agoSeems as adult you are not taught the difference between governed and employed.
- geofft 7y agoThe planet where the people making a thing happen are the most valuable ones. Ask anyone from Ayn Rand to Karl Marx.
- ddalex 7y agoBut Meredith was not making things happening for their employer, at least not in the way that they hired her to do.
- jlawson 7y agoIf you're the one paying for the work, you're entitled to say what the work will be. In this case 'you' is Google shareholders, through their representatives. Nobody is entitled to be paid to do what they choose. If you want to do something for your own personal reasons, do it off the clock.
- qntty 7y agoThere's no good reason to think like this. If you're the one doing the work, you're entitled to say collectively with your fellow employees what it should be.