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Google workers need to be reminded they work for a company who's mission is to make investors money.
by GiorgioG 3y ago
Google workers need to be reminded they work for a company who's mission is to make investors money.
- solarpunk 3y agoSome still remember their old motto, I suppose.
- GiorgioG 3y agoI somehow doubt these googlers are old enough to have even heard of that motto.
- passwordoops 3y agoTake over the world?
- Bluecobra 3y agoMove fast and discontinue things?
- solardev 3y agoBeat Altavista at any cost?
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- mmkos 3y agoAnd I guess tech companies need to be reminded that human lives are more valuable than investors money.
- klyrs 3y agoCompanies need to be reminded that employees are people with thoughts and feelings and rights.
- GiorgioG 3y agoNot in this employment market.
- klyrs 3y agoWe are not slaves. We are not robots. Your philosophy is for bootlickers. That might get you places, but I've got my dignity.
- GiorgioG 3y agoUnless/until you have fuck-you-money, you're a slave too.
- klyrs 3y agoCrab bucket mentality, right there.
- GiorgioG 3y agoNot at all - but the fact is and will always be that most people will not have fuck-you money and those people will always be at the 'mercy' of their employers to a point. My employer would have to cross a serious line for me to think about leaving on moral grounds. It's a business, as long as they're selling their wares legally, more power to them if they can make more money.
- mrweasel 3y agoIt's also interesting that this is where they draw the line for some reason. While I agree that the entire situation in Gaza is a catastrophe, some people seem to react "violently" (Not with violence, they just have a lot of feeling tied up in the conflict). I know of companies where people got professional help and had to take time off work due to the war, but most of them don't know anyone in the area, nor are they themselves neither Jewish nor Palestinian. Anyway, I think it's weird that Google employees will react like this over the sale of a service. In it self GCP is pretty harmless and its sold to a democratic government. It's also the Israel government, not just the IDF, so most of the services would presumably be used for peaceful purposes. At the same time these employees are apparently completely fine with Googles invasion of peoples privacy, manipulation, sale of data to shady advertisers with little oversight, collaboration with the US military, collaboration with China and a number of other issues... But no, this is apparently where Google crosses the line. If Google employees where constantly applying internal pressure to management and shareholders to do better it would make more sense, but right now it seems pretty random.