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Presumably in this scenario the employee was one of a small group of people that was responsible for maintaining the cork board, and used it for their political
by codekansas 6y ago
Presumably in this scenario the employee was one of a small group of people that was responsible for maintaining the cork board, and used it for their political beliefs
- black_puppydog 6y agoI find it funny how people assert that she used it for her political "beliefs" (when the message was simply informing people of their rights) but seem to take at face value Google's assertion that they acted on this because she (ab)used the infrastructure, as opposed to what she used it for.
- brendoelfrendo 6y agoI'm going to go ahead and assume that a similar circumvention of company policy for non-labor union purposes would not have been met with immediate termination. Unless Google can say that this was normal punishment or was part of a pattern of behavior, it's kinda hard for it not to look like retaliation.
- SrslyJosh 6y ago> political beliefs Informing employees of their legal right to organize isn't a political belief.
- thrwaway2day 6y agoWould you feel the same way if she added a banner that suggested her fellow employees exercise their 2nd amendment rights?
- andrewzah 6y agoBad faith argument aside, informing people of the rights they do have is not really having a political stance. Those rights exist regardless of what one personally supports. Obviously, this holds true for USA's 2nd amendment rights as well as any other provisions granted by the law. Companies have active interests in suppressing this sort of information, and put forth efforts to try and convince people that literally stating the laws of the country that one resides in is somehow pushing a political agenda.
- codekansas 6y agoIt was the parent comment's language. I was more taking issue with the "cork board" metaphor