Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo

Re:Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo by marricks on Friday March 30, 2018 @12:55PM (#16717749)

How about a company where decisions are shared internally and employees feel empowered enough to speak up, *externally if needed, against what they see as an injustice when internally nothing is done? That shouldn't be too much to ask for. Perhaps some tech unions are needed to enforce this, as shareholders and owners would probably rather have just the dichotomy you presented.

This just reveals how big the power imbalance is between employees and executives that we’d have to make such decisions.

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Re:Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo by skybrian on Friday March 30, 2018 @01:20PM (#16717968)

When you say speak up, do you mean internally or externally?

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Re:Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo by marricks on Friday March 30, 2018 @01:25PM (#16718004)

I thought it’d be clear but I added clarification.

Speaking up internally when you’re not on the board often doesn’t get much done. At least if it’s a moral objection.

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Re:Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo by skybrian on Friday March 30, 2018 @03:03PM (#16718860)

If you want to get something done, you need to think about who gets to make the decisions and how to influence them.

Depending what it is, speaking up externally might not get you more pull with internal decision-makers? Particularly if they feel betrayed.

Or, maybe a big external stink could cause action? Depends what it is.

It's quite possible that neither would work, and then you've burned your bridges for nothing.

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