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During a keynote speech, an employee in the company’s cloud division protested publicly, proclaiming “I refuse to build technology that powers genocide.” The Go
by jimbob45 3y ago
During a keynote speech, an employee in the company’s cloud division protested publicly, proclaiming “I refuse to build technology that powers genocide.” The Google Cloud engineer was subsequently fired, CNBC has learned, marking another dark moment for Google
In grade school, it was universally known that if you use violence before attempting to run away, you're getting in trouble. I don't know why companies haven't made an equally clear universal rule that "if you say something publicly before running it by us, you're getting fired".
- prepend 3y agoDon’t they though? People pretty consistently get fired over this. I had to go through training that said what happens if I do something like this.
- user_7832 3y agoThere's a difference between standing up in the middle of a PR session and violence, much like there's a difference between whatever might happen in a school and what Google is doing.