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I can not seem to find any energy to be against Google here, a 21 year old individual working at one of the most prominent and successful business in the world,
by throwaway17_17 7y ago
I can not seem to find any energy to be against Google here, a 21 year old individual working at one of the most prominent and successful business in the world, making more money per year than a vast amount of the global (not to mention national population) does something that will certainly subject her to reprimand and I am expected to feel some negativity toward Google. I am stuck outside of SV, as a middle age person with many, many hundreds of commits to open source projects, a descent of non-professional experience in software engineering, but because I do not have a BS or Masters in computer science and am over the age of 35 there is no chance I can ever get hired at Google (or any other FAANG realistically). If some of these ardent unionization workers end up fighting loudly and publicly and Google decides they will not deal with some nascent Software Engineer’s Union, maybe I and people like me stuck outside the valley will be able to gladly make boat loads of money working long hours for these thankless corporate taskmasters, while just sitting down and doing our jobs on whatever the company decides it wants to spend its money on, I will gladly work on Maven or Dragonfly or dark as patterns, whatever, I just want to be relevant to the industry not stuck away doing the same job for peanuts until I can afford to retire.
Rant over - but seriously, I don’t have a problem putting aside any personal feelings or beliefs to achieve my employers goal, that is what employment is. Spiers apparently decided that the security position allowed for this action and did it. Google did not want this type of behavior from an employee in that position. She knew Google management wasn’t going to approve, she assumed that risk.