Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics

If it wasn't for politics then they shouldn't take government contracts

The workplace, or at least career progression, is like 50% politics lol. Google is no different.

I would argue that firing them seems like a pretty strong political statement.

Oh good, so Google has stopped all political donations and canceled all government contracts so they can stay out politics?

No? Ok fuck you.

"THE WORKPLACE IS NOT FOR POLITICS"

— With love, your employer who is investing amounts of money beyond your comprehension in a government of a country now being tried for genocide with undenial and ongoing human rights violations.

Ok, so if I find out I work for Nazi contractor and object to that, it is politics?

Sounds to me like these tech workers could really use a good union to protect them.....

"The workplace isn't for politics" is about social etiquette, not criticizing what your own company is taking part in you stupid fuck.

"Google isnt the place for your politics. It is only a place for my politics. So get in line with my thinking or get the fuck out!" - Googles Chief Cunt.

"The workplace isn't for politics" says company that exerts coercive political power to expel its (ex-)workers for disagreeing.

google the company needs to be garroted with their old "don't be evil" line.

Well maybe Google shouldn’t take political contracts.

Again the excuse of 'no politics'

YOU CAN'T AVOID POLITICS

Accepting contracts from Israel is just as political as denying contracts from Israel. You just stated your political stance by accepting. Why do people think it's a free copout?

The little-known genocide assistance exception to “don’t be evil.” You have to read the fine print these days.

Everything is politics, especially the mega corpos that lobbies the governments of the world.

The only problem is that many people can't afford to be fired because of them.

Weird how all the right wingers that constantly yell about how silencing nazis is censorship are suddenly very quiet when a ceo comes out and explicitly says you will be fired for your speech.

It's about making money for executives and shitting on the employees that do the actual work.

My god they really hit the home run with a brand new excuse just to fire a few more people huh?

I'm honestly somewhat surprised that these firings haven't triggered a mass walkout or something at Google offices yet. They're being very cavalier with employees they spend so much effort (at least historically) on keeping in the office to work "free" hours.

“Officially, of course, I have no opinion.”

I see the alt-right is out of school early today!

Massive respect to the workers who sacrificed their jobs to highlight Google's scummy behaviour.

Riiight... the fact that corporations are petty dictatorships isn't political at all.

Right.

Didn't read the article. But what I take from the title is that Google is going to stop paying lobbyists....

No politics in the workplace ftw!

Is it really that surprising? Since when profit isnt the highest value?

I'm shocked that people are only just now finding out that massive companies like Google are evil. Google replaced don't be evil with be evil.

yay

Still more correct to not call it "work" but "slavery" in that country.

Never worked for one of the big tech firms, but I have been in the working world for ~16 years and one of the few things anyone that has been around for awhile can and will agree on is you don't talk about salary within earshot of the boss, you don't badmouth company decisions within earshot of the boss, you don't talk about politically charged topics, and you certainly don't combine 2 of those 3 and protest company decisions on politically charged issues literally in the office.

You also don't do those things on company provided equipment, software, or services. If you want to bitch about something the company is doing, you go out to lunch or do it after hours, preferably without written or video evidence.

While I think it is gross that Google fired them for this, given the history of the company almost encouraging such things, I can say these people just got a hard lesson that most of us learn about the corporate world long before we make it to working for the likes of Google.

Rightly or wrongly freedom of speech, assembly, etc protects you from the Government, not your boss. And your boss is a petty little ego maniac that controls your livelihood, so best to stay out of his gaze on matters you know he/she would view negatively where at all possible.

that's nice. it's nice that we care about the fate of employees at the company that destroyed the internet and made search useless because they preferred prostitution, and is now supporting genocide for financial reasons (Don't Be Evil!) but, how do we fire google?

If the internet were the sun and google the moon, then we've been under an eclipse since the day of their IPO. I wanna see the fucking sun again. I'm so sick of enshittification and "corporate behaviour" in general

Zionists exercising their disproportionate amount of control on the world.

I don't get the comment here, they didn't 'express their opinion' about Israel. They behaved like a bunch of lunatics within Google's offices. If you want to protest Google's actions send a signed letter of resignation stating the reason, send it to the press and form a union of techies that won't work for companies that work with Israel recursively.

On a side note, I like how none of them mind building mass surveillance tools, pushing ads, Google-China relations, etc... But Israel's genocide is trending, so they jump on that. What a bunch of shallow fucks.

Based Google

The pendulum is swinging back hard. Let's just hope we don't end up way deep into the danger since zone just because woke idiots couldn't leave "good enough" alone.

Edit: wow leddit big mad