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Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics (wapo.st)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They dropped that line some time ago

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If I'm not mistaken there's a more long winded watered down version at the end of a bunch of bs now. I may be misremembering or out of the loop on subsequent updates and changes though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes it's still there, it was just moved, albeit from a very noticeable position to quite an obscure one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Gotcha. Yeah thats more or less how I remembered it... 🙃

Its a bummer, I used to consider myself a fan of Google's direction. But lesson learned I suppose, money is power and power corrupts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I feel like the turnaround was somewhere around 2008-2010. Before that they seemed a lot more amicable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Twenty hard years of spinning on this planet has shown us the truth.