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This is only possible because of the extreme anti-worker legal situation in the US. In many many (most?) countries doing this is illegal and will land you a cou
by einpoklum 3y ago
This is only possible because of the extreme anti-worker legal situation in the US. In many many (most?) countries doing this is illegal and will land you a court decision against your breach of the employee's rights (in addition to you owing that employee severance + lack-of-advanced-notice fine, by law and before any legal procedure).
- hot_gril 3y agoTechnically they're still "employed" a bit longer but prevented from going into offices or doing anything else in their final 2 weeks or whatever it is. And they get severance after.
- bb611 3y agoBecause these employees are in California, Google is required to give 60 days notice of termination. Typically in big tech layoffs this is done as paid garden leave.
- vjulian 3y agoGiven apparent US gun violence, immediate escorting off the premises seems wise. Why let potentially angry ex-employees linger?
- einpoklum 3y agoThe question is actually: Why let our employers being able to treat us like a disposable tissue?
- hot_gril 3y agoI get to treat the employer like a disposable tissue too. They aren't forced to employ me, but I'm not forced to work for them.
- heavyset_go 3y agoMost people who need to work for health insurance, shelter, food, etc have to treat their employers as if they're golden tissues. If they tear them, their life turns upside down, often for the worst.
- mvdtnz 3y agoBecause they are human beings with rights.
- tcbawo 3y agoEven the most deranged employees likely won’t have weapons on them. Most of the workplace violence seems to happen when a disgruntled (ex)employee returns to their place of work some time after the fact.
- hot_gril 3y agoThe real "weapons" they've got are unchecked access to production systems.
- elzbardico 3y agoTreat people systematically in inhuman ways, sooner or later one of them will crack in unpredictable ways.
- heavyset_go 3y agoAh, the pernicious paranoia behind the security state. Why trust anyone when they can do bad things, especially to assets?
- fsckboy 3y agogun violence in the workplace tends to be from people coming back after with vengeance, not bringing guns to work every day just in case. immediately escorting somebody off the premises seems more likely to trigger such gun violence than avoid it. in any case, gun violence remains a very unlikely event wrt to the headlines it receives (divide the statistics by "out of 335 million people")
- yreg 3y ago> In many many (most?) countries doing this is illegal and will land you a court decision against your breach of the employee's rights What rights do you mean other than the notice period (and the ones surrounding whether the contract can be terminated at all)? Because notice period can be solved by continuing to pay the salary and to be fair, Google and the other tech giants have usually done that to a pretty high level during layoffs. E.g. Discord is now paying out 5 months of salaries to the laid off people. (I find the escorting out of building, etc. super weird.)
- cscurmudgeon 3y agoThis is just so hilariously wrong.