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A little over a year ago, while working at Google I needed to work from home for personal reasons. HR told me “we have done extensive studies and it doesn’t wor

A little over a year ago, while working at Google I needed to work from home for personal reasons. HR told me “we have done extensive studies and it doesn’t work so take a personal leave”. Okay. In another issue I suggested to my manager we stop using “blacklist” and “whitelist”. He said no one else had a problem with those names and of this was a personal issue take it up with HR Google will never change unless forced to. I quit soon after.

shadowgovt 6y ago
It sucks that happened to you. Especially since different arms of the company have actually adopted that blacklist and whitelist should be deprecated ( https://9to5google.com/2020/06/12/google-android-chrome-blacklist-blocklist-more-inclusive/ https://9to5google.com/2020/06/12/google-android-chrome-blac...). Google's a big beast, and it's not as homogeneous as people from the outside looking in sometimes assume. Hell, I'm pretty sure nobody really knows everything that's going on in it.
- rossjudson 6y ago
  Google is a city, not a village.
nostrademons 6y ago
The "blacklist/whitelist" issue is still circulating and appears to be getting some traction. I just had a manager on my team bring up migrating away from them and our management chain was generally supportive. I thought it was slightly ridiculous until I saw the suggested alternatives of "allowlist" and "denylist". These really are better terms: they're completely self-describing and match the verbs that you'd usually be using when referencing a denylist. Only downside is they don't have the same number of letters (and so don't line up if you put them one after another in code), but that can be worked around.