For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.

For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.

  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.worldEnglish
    503·
    3 days ago

    She could have said nothing and kept quiet like the thousands of other workers at Google, this could not only get her fired but maybe even blacklisted in the industry, that’s far more than you’ve ever done or will ever do to bring attention to this issue, so how about you keep that cynicism in check.

    • primemagnus@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      3 days ago

      100% will get her fired. 100%. Not now as it’s too connectable to the post she made, but in 6 months, they’ll find a reason to can her that can’t be traced to this.

      I recall reading about one senior on the search team who had worked there for over a decade criticizing the changes G keeps making to favor their own interests (ads mostly) saying it degrades search results (he was right too as G has fallen to the same levels of DDG/Bing and Yahoo).

      He got shuffled into a dead roll over the course of a year so he could no longer deter the project.

      Now that’s a guy who didn’t want to build a bad product. What happens to people who take political stances that could hurt G’s revenue and stock prices? Yeah. She’s toast.

    • rolling@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Ohh nooo. Poor her with all the stock options she got while working there from basically their startup days. Whatever this poor damsel will do with 20+ years of experience working in one of the biggest tech companies in the world.

      I might not have the platform to bring attention to this issue, but hey, at least I don’t actively help them, do their work and then reap the benefits of all the evil they do anyways.

      Unlike her, my issues with Google does not end with the Israel issue. Google is evil regardless of this single issue.