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Comparing Google's yellow contractor badges to the "Jude" star that the Nazis made Jews wear is tasteless, and pointless at best. Please consider a revision.
by parker_mountain 4y ago
Comparing Google's yellow contractor badges to the "Jude" star that the Nazis made Jews wear is tasteless, and pointless at best. Please consider a revision.
- heywhatupboys 4y agowhy they are literally the same thing? As the US minimum wage is proved "unlivabley low", it is exactly equivalent to genocide! I also cannot believe that Google would sink so low as to employ non-tech people, like a fast food chain!!
- fmajid 4y agoGoogle doesn't, they are hired through temp agencies that do the unpleasant work of slave-driving.
- heywhatupboys 4y agomy comment was sarcasm if not obvious btw
- AlbertCory 4y agoI was thinking about this. You're right that they do use temp agencies for most things, but the fact that these people had ANY badge probably indicates they were hired directly by Google. This was 2011, remember.
- the-rc 4y agoI have no clue who hired them, but I heard that the special badge was only ever used for that project and for a number of specific reasons that had more to do with lawyers than finances. (A bunch of us tailgated into that building once, but we didn't manage to stay past a minute or two.)
- bambax 4y agoIt's made in a tasteless and brutal manner in the article, but the comparison is far from irrelevant. "Badging" low-wage and low-skill labor with a yellow color, for the sole purpose of making sure they don't go "anywhere else on the Google campus", including "the microkitchens in their own building" is segregation. That doesn't mean the author is accusing Google of being a bunch of Nazis. But IMHO they're right to point out that segregation is segregation.
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