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Turns out, even Timnit Gebru, making ~500k a year researching AI ethics at Google, can still be fired. Turns out, Google would feed each and every one of their
by courtf 6y ago
Turns out, even Timnit Gebru, making ~500k a year researching AI ethics at Google, can still be fired.
Turns out, Google would feed each and every one of their employees, feet first, into a giant wood-chipper if that was the most cost-effective, legal way of disposing of them.
Turns out, the tech industry isn't really all that structurally different than any other industry.
Ignore that pipe full of blood and guts y'all, none of those people were marginalized. Back to work!
- schoolornot 6y agoIt’s not illegal for a company to marginalize someone for rocking the boat. I’ve worked with tons of people who have been relegated to basement offices or positions where they just “advise” but do nothing all day. Someone thought they had something left of value to add. Then they get a new boss or their current boss has enough and kicks them out.
- courtf 6y agoIndeed! And even that outcome would be considered merciful from most other perspectives. On one hand, I'm glad that people are sensitive enough to at least pretend to care about this, but on the other hand, they're completely deluded about the nature of work, and the nature of their relationship to their employer. It must come as a shock when, after spending a decade in school and moving directly from a university dorm/cafeteria to a corporate one, all of a sudden they can just ask you to leave. Maybe Google should start charging tuition.