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lol this is absurd, they're fighting against rampant sexual harassment and a variety of other real workplace problems, not being mind controlled by nefarious bo
by 0x262d 7y ago
lol this is absurd, they're fighting against rampant sexual harassment and a variety of other real workplace problems, not being mind controlled by nefarious bolsheviks
- 0x262d 7y agoalso, the core problem is that treating workers well is not in "alignment with leadership"
- 0x262d 7y agohonestly using diaeresis (things that look like umlauts) while typing stuff out about how people who don't want to work for an evil company are being controlled by other forces just gives off the biggest wannabe top hat monopoly capitalist vibe imaginable.
- casefields 7y agoMore like just following the New Yorker style guide, which are decidedly not top hat monopoly capitalists: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...
- 0x262d 7y agothe new yorker is the most prominent top hat aesthetic organization in the world. just look at their icon. andwhile they are often nominally opposed to monopoly they're a thoroughly capitalist news organization that is privately owned by a selection of the superwealthy.
- aaron695 7y ago> rampant sexual harassment Sounds like something straight from the Bolsheviks in an attempt to take down a larger entity purely for control. The concept Google is worse than general society is out there. Try looking at the real world, of transport or construction or the service industry or cleaning or food harvesting. Pretty much anywhere but the industry of IT of which Google is exemplary.
- 0x262d 7y ago1. Google is not exemplary, lmao, they have a terrible culture of paying off executives for harassment and assault which has been thoroughly documented in the NYT and elsewhere 2. the idea that if somewhere else is worse, we shouldn't fight harassment here/in our job/in our industry, is abhorrent. this sort of blase, tone-deaf attitude towards gender oppression causes a lot of problems in tech. I'm very glad people are finally vocally fighting back.
- jxjdjsjdjjd 7y agoWhat they're doing is running a political campaign.
- 0x262d 7y agoyes, trying to stop employer misdeeds is indeed very political.