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Nowadays I take a look at the person's Twitter after reading their resume, just to see if they'd be more trouble than they're worth. I've passed on several cand
by m0zg 5y ago
Nowadays I take a look at the person's Twitter after reading their resume, just to see if they'd be more trouble than they're worth. I've passed on several candidates over the past few years because of the utterly imbecilic stuff they posted online. Why Google is not doing the same is a mystery to me. They already run background checks, and political affiliation, for better or worse, is not a protected class. Go be an activist somewhere else.
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- ir123 5y agoMaybe it's just work for you but other people take pride in the impact and consequences that their work brings about. Such people are obviously going to be upset about a contract with the Israel government. Though I don't know how they are okay working for a company that basically shows advertisements to people.
- PeterisP 5y agoI would guess that there are also people who take pride in the impact and consequences that their work brings about and support the Israel government, those are two separate things.
- inglor_cz 5y agoIn that case, Mountain View is full of other software corporations that will gladly take an ex-Googler. There isn't even an informal monopoly on employment there. Of course, the compensation may be lower elsewhere.
- LeanderK 5y agothis is actively harmful for a democratic society. Raising your voice is the way to influence societies action. The economy is part of society and governed by its rules and thoughts. There would be no environmental laws without environmental activist, civil rights laws without civil rights activist etc. Ignoring this means ignoring the political side of you economic actions, but companies don't operate in a politically neutral space. The moment you work with a government you support it, which is a political act.
- blitzar 5y agoWhen recruiting you would notice if someone had a SS tatto on their face, if they did I suspect it would bias your impression of them. Its no different to somones public comments on social media.
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- m0zg 5y agoYou're free to raise your voice, just outside the work hours. Believe it or not, some people actually come to work to do _work_, not to advance their politics. And that's the way it has to be if any work is to be done at all.
- systemvoltage 5y agoI miss the 90's Silicon Valley. Laser focused on innovation and mostly liberatarian. I would kill to go back and rewind time. Currently, this place feels totalitarian on a cultural level. Can't express diverging views. Can't think from the fundamentals and seek truth. Can't criticize the person next to you. The game everyone seems to be playing is who is more woke than the person next to them. This whole thing escalates with no checks and balances. A total relentless wokefest. I am fine with talking about social issues but it is impossible with these people. Activism, it's not as President Obama said just this year. This is on the front page of NYT right now. That's how bad it has gotten: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/california-math-curriculum-guidelines.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/california-math-curric... I will be voting for anything but the current situation.
- trasz 5y agoCan’t express diverging views about the shape of Earth or how vaccines cause authism. What you call “woke” is just a lowered tolerance to fringe theories in ethics, same way many people don’t tolerate fringe theories about cosmology or medicine.
- sceptical 5y agoWokeness is a religion. As such that is fine but why pretend otherwise.
- trasz 5y agoNot a religion, but rather an ideology. It's usually spelled humanism, though.
- systemvoltage 5y agoOne of the problems of woke ideology is the ostensible moral superiority they display over others to push their agenda. Arrogant, intolerable and incorrigible. In their mind, they are righteous and everyone that is not onboard is evil. Sounds familiar?