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I applaud Googlers who try to put the "don't be evil" genie back in the bottle, but I wish you would point your energy toward a more-achievable goal.
by hackmiester 5y ago
I applaud Googlers who try to put the "don't be evil" genie back in the bottle, but I wish you would point your energy toward a more-achievable goal.
- jefftk 5y agoRegardless of what you think of Google's business practices, paying off insiders is absolutely not something that any of us should accept.
- anm89 5y agoPaying off an insider to get something done that actually needed to be done seems a hell of a lot less problematic than capriciously destroying someones livelihood with no justification at all as the parent indicates that Google did to them. There's nothing wrong with taking gobs of money to work at a huge corporation but at least be honest that they are terrible.
- post-it 5y agoYou misread, I think. > Later we learned their old agency paid off a Google insider to flag our client’s account resulting in suspension.
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- anm89 5y agoYou are right. I thought someone else paid to get the account restored.
- burnished 5y agoTFA states that a google insider was paid by a competitor to suspend their account.
- anm89 5y agoYou are right. I thought someone else paid to get the account restored.
- zorpner 5y agoYou have already accepted it, by continuing to work for a company that does it (regularly -- this is hardly a unique story).
- rmbyrro 5y agoIf they quit a job anytime something happens contrary to what they believe, they'll will switch jobs every week. Every employer will have skeletons in the closet. Or out of the closet...
- jefftk 5y agoSorry, are you saying that it is common for people to bribe insiders to bypass policy and hurt their competitors? This is the first time I've heard a story like this.
- hluska 5y agoHey friend - you did something very good today. It was kind of you to offer your help. I hope you have a really good weekend...:)
- zorpner 5y agoYeah, you can even Google™ to find many other such stories.
- registeredcorn 5y agoIt's difficult to tell if you are being sarcastic or not.
- registeredcorn 5y agoTo the persons voting my comment into the dirt, I was being sincere. If you really have never heard of this type of thing occurring, then you are either willfully ignorant, or completely separated from the reality of how business is conducted with Google. I don't say this with malice, but with plain honesty. This is a fundamental part of how the interaction with Google works. To deny this so plainly can only make any sort of sense through sarcasm.
- tomcam 5y agoI applaud Googlers who try to do the right thing and I don't understand why a random person on HN should dis them for it.
- f1refly 5y ago"Just get you issue to the front page of hacker news, if you can't make it fuck off" is not a valid support strategy for one of the biggest corporations in the worls
- tomcam 5y agoWould you prefer nothing to happen? In the real world, we have two bad choices: either google ignores it completely, which I’m certainly not defending, or some of its employees try to make good. Why punish people for doing the right thing? Of course I think their support is generally reprehensible. But we don’t have a third choice right now, so these employees taking initiative seems like a win.
- mpol 5y agoOr maybe it's part of their strategy? Remember, Google is an advertising agency. They are sending a message out that their support is maybe not 100% adequate, but if you do have an issue, just raise your voice on social media and it will be fixed. In the end everything will turn out allright, not? The message they are sending out is downright misleading. Maybe we should even say no to that.
- hackerfromthefu 5y agoWhat you are describing is the problem. Both your options are terrible. This needs regulating.
- tomcam 5y agouh they aren’t my options. They are what’s available in the real world right now, not what you and I would prefer be available.
- veltas 5y agoThis would fall under anti-corruption laws, it's a legal matter and Google is obligated to show due diligence in investigating any disclosures, in any form they may appear.