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I am not impressed by Google's response here. I am not so sure that this recruiter deserved termination. They were hired to find personnel. I haven't seen this

I am not impressed by Google's response here. I am not so sure that this recruiter deserved termination. They were hired to find personnel. I haven't seen this "do not call" policy, but it seems unnecessarily restrictive to not allow people to put out feelers and instead require them to sit and wait for candidates to come to them. There is more that is not known in this story, it's possible Google recruiting had a manager that was putting pressure on them to find perfect candidates or else and they were feeling desperate. Bad managers exist in every company, Google would not be an exception to this and rules go out the window when executive gets involved, as happened here. It really is ludicrous when you read it. Google fired someone they hired to find people, for trying to find people just because it would please the CEO at another company that Eric was on the board of directors of. Conflict of interest.

ecshafer 5y ago
Google, Apple, and others in the valley at the time were illegally colluding to keep salaries low. Its awful the person was fired.
- AlbertCory 5y ago
  Once again: you have to put the word "fired" in context. In all likelihood, they were contractors, liable to be let go at any second. But yeah, it was illegal and that's why there was a class action.
- Sunspark 5y ago
  Where I live, the banks talk to each other to make sure that they're paying roughly the same for a given type of position. Every time I or others complained about our perceived low pay, they said that they don't give cost of living increases and that they compare with their peers and that they are not out-of-line with what the other banks are doing. Well you know.. this kind of collusion is called price fixing.
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foota 5y ago
There was a lawsuit about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

ecshafer 5y ago

Google, Apple, and others in the valley at the time were illegally colluding to keep salaries low. Its awful the person was fired.

AlbertCory 5y ago
Once again: you have to put the word "fired" in context. In all likelihood, they were contractors, liable to be let go at any second. But yeah, it was illegal and that's why there was a class action.
Sunspark 5y ago
Where I live, the banks talk to each other to make sure that they're paying roughly the same for a given type of position. Every time I or others complained about our perceived low pay, they said that they don't give cost of living increases and that they compare with their peers and that they are not out-of-line with what the other banks are doing. Well you know.. this kind of collusion is called price fixing.

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foota 5y ago

There was a lawsuit about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...