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> earlier this month, more than 1,000 employees called on the company to cancel deals with oil and gas companies. what's wrong with these employees? Keep your
by PunchTornado 7y ago
> earlier this month, more than 1,000 employees called on the company to cancel deals with oil and gas companies.
what's wrong with these employees? Keep your political opinions to yourself. So they propose that my company lose money because of your activism. Don't agree! What if some employees asked that Google cancel any deals with climate change NGOs? How would these employees feel about it?
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y agoHow would you feel if instead of Google it was Facebook, and instead of oil and gas they were raising privacy concerns?
- madengr 7y agoThey probably don’t realize the chair their dumb ass is sitting on is derived from a petrochemical.
- celticninja 7y agoWhat's wrong with asking? The company doesn't have to agree, but there is no harm in asking.
- repolfx 7y agoThey aren't really asking, are they? Asking is a question at TGIF. What these people were doing is trying to create a bloc of activists that comes with the implied or explicit threat of coordinated employee action or pressure, as they've engaged in previously. They're pushing the boundaries to see how much control over management they really have.
- throwanem 7y agoGood! The idea that management should by right have all the power in its relationship with workers is very convenient for management, but I don't see why that obligates anyone else to take it seriously.
- celticninja 7y agoI disagree, this shows that it is not a niche concern, and management should be aware of the workers concerns, they can overrule them if they want, but your workers are you first set of customers, so you can expect a similar pushback from your main customer base. So again if you want to overrule concerns you have a better idea of what they are and how to challenge them.
- PunchTornado 7y agoof course this works only for some political opinions. Others, like the ones expressed by Damore grant you fired.
- andybak 7y agoSome people care what they do with their lives.
- baq 7y agohomo sapiens is a political animal and you can't just pretend (or expect) that for 8 hours in day it isn't true. you couldn't expect that from slaves so why would you expect that from employees?
- notzuck 7y agoSpotted the irritating person to work with.
- baq 7y agofalse dichotomy. you’re free to ask my colleagues.
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