Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract
Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract
The employees were protesting against “Project Nimbus.”
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This idiotic behavior is making me feel ashamed for being a lefty 😭
On a positive note, it’s helping me feel more empathy for conservatives & people frustrated with wokeness
Just remember. Not all leftists are pro jihad nutjobs
100% agree.
Scratch a liberal, etc.
I'm as Left as they come but I feel more empathy for fascists and racists.
Holy shit they made Facebook exclusively for tech workers? Someone needs to be added to the list
leftism is when you kill brown people and the more brown people you kill etc
As a fellow leftie, [insert horrifically racist/transphobic/genocidal comment here]. Ya know, cause true leftists are [insert description of a conservative/liberal].
Good lord. Man, I really need to finish my De-Googling process.
"I don't like the aesthetic of conservatives but I agree with them on literally everything"
There was a series of completely non-threatening sit-ins (like a couple hours, out of the way of any work) like five years ago, and Google immediately shat itself and started making concessions before any demands were even made. Interesting to see the difference.
tech labor market right now is the weakest it has been since dotcom bubble (other than covid which recovered after literally a few months), even worse than the great financial crisis since that didn't really hit tech, while 5 years ago was the strongest it has been in decades
By and large, tech workers specifically are some of the least amenable to class consciousness I have ever seen- believe me, I've tried. We gave up the single largest leverage white collar labor has had in living memory in order to...sit in an office? Waste hours a day on a commute? They had it all; workers demanded to be remote, until apparently they remembered they had wives and kids they hate and now we need to make up bogeymen about how sitting at home for 8 hours a day makes you fat and unhealthy and unattractive while doing just that at the office magically doesn't (shocker!). I will never get it, and I will never forgive them for just rolling over. The owning class is responding as expected- ruthlessly and with the knowledge that they can get away with anything, because they can.
By and large, tech workers specifically are some of the least amenable to class consciousness I have ever seen- believe me, I’ve tried.
Same here. I swear, working in tech as a communist will drive you insane sooner or later. All the colleagues I've worked with range from grindset hustlers, "work hard" types who gladly chug the corporate koolaid, liberals who conscientiously read mainstream media to "stay informed and not fall for propaganda" i.e. they tow the US line on Ukraine, Palestine, China etc - all the way to manosphere chuds, anti-communists and ancap cryptobros and, presumably, crypto-fascists.
I've tried spreading a little class consciousness here and there, but it's hard and if you use a word that sounds just slightly socialist, the discussion is over most of the times.
The incentives to radicalize are just not there. The pay is relatively good, KPIs and decent raises and title changes give you the impression of meritocracy, the job tends to be mentally draining, and often tech workers are passionate about tech and have it as a hobby in their free time. So this usually means less paying attention to current events beyond the easily accessible mainstream news (because it's easier to stay in the same tech context in your spare time, or just chill), and more belief that the system is working and that the poors can be disregarded because it's their failure, not a systemic issue.
By and large, tech workers specifically are some of the least amenable to class consciousness I have ever seen
This thread is about a bunch of them getting fired from great jobs over anti-imperialism. That's a lot more of a commitment than most people have made (probably even most here).
I will never forgive them for just rolling over.
This just isn't accurate. Tons of people insisted on keeping WFH, changed jobs over it, turned down higher pay to keep it, etc., and the companies that really pushed people back to the office had to use all sorts of carrots and sticks to make it happen.
don'tbe evil.
There were many dozens more helping out behind the scenes and hundreds of supporters onlooking! The struggle and agitation will continue
See evil do evil be evil
"Don't be evil"
"Ok you can be a little evil, as a treat."
The next move should be moving to Cuba and helping them launch their own internet infrastructure
If that was on the table I'd be there in a heartbeat
Yeah, Google is not going to cancel a 1.2B contract over some petty ethical concerns
Come along way from "Do no evil." I see.
they ditched that years ago