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What if the message was: "Make America Great Again". What if the message was: "H1B - go back to your country". would it still feel ok to you? etc it is gros

What if the message was: "Make America Great Again". What if the message was: "H1B - go back to your country". would it still feel ok to you? etc it is grossly unprofessional to insert unrelated messaging and hijack a tool to push your agenda. "Going through standard protocols" in this case meant two other people approved the change - those two people also show serious unprofessionalism and bear responsibility as well - it is not an excuse. Edit: I have now also read the author's take on it. https://medium.com/@ksspiers/google-fires-another-worker-for-exercising-her-rights-and-protecting-coworkers-from-illegal-b86c41ef91b9 https://medium.com/@ksspiers/google-fires-another-worker-for... I do feel that the way Google went about it was heavy-handed and reflects badly on Google as well.

shantly 7y ago
It's more like posting a reminder of the current legal minimum wage—and only showed up, apparently, if the user visited the site of a consulting firm Google hired to help them figure out how to avoid unionization. A great and entirely "professional" thing to do? Nah, but hardly worth the vigorous harumphing and tut-tutting it's receiving. It's not like she contributed code to Amp or spearheaded putting ads inline with and above search results. You know, nothing terribly evil.
- glofish 7y ago
  I think, especially in the light of how it was targeted, a better analogy would be the act of popping a message from the Democrats when visiting the Republican RNC website or vice-versa. I find it oppressive - the mere "reminder" wants to interfere, it wants to to take away your ability to think for yourself and make up your own mind.
  - dlp211 7y ago
    I don't get how so many of the comments on here go straight to political messaging. It's an NLRB notice. There is nothing political about it.
- foogazi 7y ago
  > A great and entirely "professional" thing to do? Nah So unprofessional?
  - shantly 7y ago
    Somewhat, rather, not not unprofessional, perhaps.
relluic 7y ago
The part I found interesting was that the pop up was on a page specifically about labor rights: https://miro.medium.com/max/1000/0*1BTVYLTvuHiJVvp_.jpg https://miro.medium.com/max/1000/0*1BTVYLTvuHiJVvp_.jpg So it's not really inserting unrelated message. I feel like this is completely lost for some reason.

shantly 7y ago

It's more like posting a reminder of the current legal minimum wage—and only showed up, apparently, if the user visited the site of a consulting firm Google hired to help them figure out how to avoid unionization. A great and entirely "professional" thing to do? Nah, but hardly worth the vigorous harumphing and tut-tutting it's receiving. It's not like she contributed code to Amp or spearheaded putting ads inline with and above search results. You know, nothing terribly evil.

glofish 7y ago
I think, especially in the light of how it was targeted, a better analogy would be the act of popping a message from the Democrats when visiting the Republican RNC website or vice-versa. I find it oppressive - the mere "reminder" wants to interfere, it wants to to take away your ability to think for yourself and make up your own mind.
- dlp211 7y ago
  I don't get how so many of the comments on here go straight to political messaging. It's an NLRB notice. There is nothing political about it.
foogazi 7y ago
> A great and entirely "professional" thing to do? Nah So unprofessional?
- shantly 7y ago
  Somewhat, rather, not not unprofessional, perhaps.

relluic 7y ago

The part I found interesting was that the pop up was on a page specifically about labor rights: https://miro.medium.com/max/1000/0*1BTVYLTvuHiJVvp_.jpg https://miro.medium.com/max/1000/0*1BTVYLTvuHiJVvp_.jpg So it's not really inserting unrelated message. I feel like this is completely lost for some reason.