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Google is an company that demands extraordinarily high ideological conformance from its workers. Unfortunately for Google it new longer controls the exact speci
by InTheArena 6y ago
Google is an company that demands extraordinarily high ideological conformance from its workers. Unfortunately for Google it new longer controls the exact specification of what is and is not acceptable thought at Google, and much like the French revolution it’s being pushed into directions that is management may or may not agree with.
What should be a fairly reasonable question – is this person a good employee or not is immediately contaminated by questions they have nothing to do with job performance.
- pmoriarty 6y ago"What should be a fairly reasonable question – is this person a good employee or not is immediately contaminated by questions they have nothing to do with job performance." There are all sorts of non-performance considerations that are important, not just at Google, but at pretty much every other company. One of those considerations is ethics. Another is legality. Another is public relations. Which of these do you think companies should ignore?
- metabagel 6y agoI thought those are also job performance considerations?
- pmoriarty 6y agoIf they are job performance considerations, then what is the person I replied to talking about?
- InTheArena 6y agoIdeological conformance. Google has a particular world view that insists that privacy is not a human right, that certain political positions are verboten and unions are bad.
- vacheron 6y agoThis is not at all what Timnit was fired for. There is a enforced conformity at most large companies in terms of "approved" politics, but Timnit was not fired for going against the grain here. In fact, by all reports she was disliked internally for disingenuously using progressivism to further her own career. Timnit was also not fired for criticizing Google's stance on privacy and data collection. This just seems like an offensive on a corporation in an otherwise unrelated topic.