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This seems pretty reasonable as falling under the “unprofessional behavior” intelligent behavior. In my org, if I disrupted someone’s presentation over any top
by prepend 3y ago
This seems pretty reasonable as falling under the “unprofessional behavior” intelligent behavior.
In my org, if I disrupted someone’s presentation over any topic I’d be fired. Or maybe severely reprimanded.
This behavior surprises me because these are private orgs. So doing unprofessional things will result in firings or whatnot.
It seems odd to me that people think it’s appropriate to protest within a company. If you don’t want to “build technology that powers genocide” (kind of comical considering how huge and pervasive google is) then quit. Similarly if I don’t want to make bombs, I shouldn’t work for a bomb company.
Finally, it just seems stupid to think this would change corporate decision making. What kind of reasoning and logic ends up with “disrupt a meeting -> google changes business policy regarding Israel?”
- dekhn 3y agoRegarding your last question: we just went through a period where shaming people publicly had huge effects. However, partially as a result of that, and other important factors, people changed their tolerance and rage parameters in a way that is less likely to call for change in the progressive direction.
- sanderjd 3y agoIt's appropriate to protest within a company, because human beings are free to choose what is important enough to their own personal values to be worth taking actions that will have consequences, and to choose which actions they believe are worth doing. But certainly the base case expectation people should have is that such actions will result in being fired. And personally I also agree with you that this does not turn out to be a very effective form of protest. But people get to make their own choices!