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> We’ve written at Hard Reset before about tech workers leaving long-time employment at companies like Oracle and Cisco, driven away by their employers’ blind c
by appreciatorBus 1y ago
> We’ve written at Hard Reset before about tech workers leaving long-time employment at companies like Oracle and Cisco, driven away by their employers’ blind corporate advocacy of Israel and retaliation against any form of pro-Palestine activism. One former Oracle employee told us that she is leaving tech and the idea of “girl-bossing” altogether, instead traveling around in a camper van and buying a vineyard in Porto, Portugal
If you can afford to buy a vineyard in Portugal, then you didn’t leave tech out of protest over Middle East politics, you retired because you’re rich. Which is fine, but don’t try to make it about Israel.
- nonrecursive 1y agoIt’s possible for something to be more than one thing at the same time. You can both leave a company as a protest of its politics and move on to some other venture that you have the means for. And anyway the article, which doesn’t dig deeper into this person’s motives, doesn’t even paint it as a protest. It could simply be not wanting to participate in harm, which is not exactly the same as a protest.
- moltar 1y agoYou don’t need to be rich to buy a vineyard in Portugal. Many are just a normal part of a village home.