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Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday.

In a memo sent to all employees on Wednesday, Chris Rackow, Google’s head of global security, said that “behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it.”

He also warned that the company would take more action if needed: “The overwhelming majority of our employees do the right thing. If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again. The company takes this extremely seriously, and we will continue to apply our longstanding policies to take action against disruptive behavior — up to and including termination.”

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (15 children)

The memo looks like it comes straight out of dystopian novel

How did we get here

[+] [email protected] -27 points 7 months ago (12 children)

What's dystopian about it? Employees violated company policy and they were fired because of it. There are acceptable and unacceptable ways to handle it, and those employees chose to handle it unprofessionally.

If they want to protest on their own time and on public property, they should have every right. But protesting on company property shouldn't have any special protections.

I'm no fan of Google and I think their business choices are despicable, but that doesn't change the fact that first amendment protections do not apply in a typical workplace, they only serve to restrict government action. So it's completely unsurprising that Google fired employees who destroyed company property and disrupted the work environment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

dumbasses should've just sabotaged the project, or stolen as much as they could get away with. maybe leaked it.

I agree.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

That's certainly smarter. Openly committing crimes is rarely the right approach.

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