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Entities with massive wealth, such as Google, should always use money to soften the blow of their mistakes. Giving this person a small chunk of cash would make
by xooglechoogle 4y ago
Entities with massive wealth, such as Google, should always use money to soften the blow of their mistakes.
Giving this person a small chunk of cash would make me respect Google so much more than just screwing this person's life up and saying "Whoops, you're fired, lol!"
But it's been a long time since Google was a cool company.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoIt's simple profit motive. What you're asking for is something else
- petercooper 4y agoI agree, but as 'Bill Gates' said on The Simpsons: "I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks."
- xooglechoogle 4y agoEasily justified as good marketing. This #1 post on HN will Google (in various ways) much more than the cash they could have used to look like good guys, even if it wasn't done out of goodness.
- petercooper 4y agoMuch more than the cash to handle potentially thousands of applicants who were in a similar position? (Don't get me wrong, I do think large companies should be held to higher ethical standards, but we don't seem to be there yet.)
- bagacrap 4y agoNo mention of the relocation bonus. Was there one? Did they rescind that as well? Since I'm 90% sure Google would pay for international relocation, and the blog post didn't mention it (which it surely would have if Google had offered then rescinded one), I suspect he did get to keep that.