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If the message was "I baked cookies, come by my office if you'd like to try some" do you think this person would similarly be fired? A person that was recently

If the message was "I baked cookies, come by my office if you'd like to try some" do you think this person would similarly be fired? A person that was recently promoted, was designated as a high performer, (and I have nothing to back this up but seemed strategically recruited since they did not fit the google mould as a high school drop out?) I think a reasonable reaction would be to remove the message from the extension, put in place a better review process, better training and possibly some minor negative comments at review time.

macspoofing 7y ago
>If the message was "I baked cookies, come by my office if you'd like to try some" do you think this person would similarly be fired? Yes I do. 100%. >put in place a better review process, This is your solution? The process was intentionally lax so that you wouldn't have too much red-tape when soliciting contributions. The assumption was that this wouldn't be abused by your Security engineers(!!). Your solution to this is to make the process more onerous because one individual couldn't behave like an adult? How about you keep the process as is and you fire the individual who couldn't differentiate activism from security work.
SpicyLemonZest 7y ago
> If the message was "I baked cookies, come by my office if you'd like to try some" do you think this person would similarly be fired? No, but I think they'd similarly be fired if they had written an anti-union popup. (Indeed, if someone wrote an anti-union popup and weren't fired for it, I expect that would itself have made the news as a "Google hates unions" story.)
ThrowawayR2 7y ago
> "If the message was "I baked cookies, come by my office if you'd like to try some" do you think this person would similarly be fired? " Yes, immediately and for cause. Internal business apps at large companies are not your personal playground.

macspoofing 7y ago

>If the message was "I baked cookies, come by my office if you'd like to try some" do you think this person would similarly be fired? Yes I do. 100%. >put in place a better review process, This is your solution? The process was intentionally lax so that you wouldn't have too much red-tape when soliciting contributions. The assumption was that this wouldn't be abused by your Security engineers(!!). Your solution to this is to make the process more onerous because one individual couldn't behave like an adult? How about you keep the process as is and you fire the individual who couldn't differentiate activism from security work.

SpicyLemonZest 7y ago

> If the message was "I baked cookies, come by my office if you'd like to try some" do you think this person would similarly be fired? No, but I think they'd similarly be fired if they had written an anti-union popup. (Indeed, if someone wrote an anti-union popup and weren't fired for it, I expect that would itself have made the news as a "Google hates unions" story.)

ThrowawayR2 7y ago

> "If the message was "I baked cookies, come by my office if you'd like to try some" do you think this person would similarly be fired? " Yes, immediately and for cause. Internal business apps at large companies are not your personal playground.