Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation

Re:Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation by AntiTechTechie on Monday April 22, 2019 @02:05PM (#19721130)

Sure, you don't think Google will find a way to identify these "problem" employees, transfer them to a pointless project or put them on something that will cause them to leave on their own accord?

Their managers could easily give them CMEs for good reason (wasting time on activist bullshit instead of doing work, etc..), essentially forcing them to leave...

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Re:Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation by jawnv6 on Monday April 22, 2019 @02:14PM (#19721229)

right, labor law is aware of "constructive dismissal," been a part of the law since, gosh, 1964?

oh right but this is ~google~ in the ~silicon valley tech industry~ so stodgy old concepts like "long settled labor law" still appear to be wholly unheard of by the average techie bootlicker

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Re:Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation by dentemple on Monday April 22, 2019 @02:21PM (#19721308)

"We're a plucky startup that seeks to disrupt the labor laws industry"

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Re:Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation by mattkevan on Monday April 22, 2019 @03:32PM (#19722055)

Ah, you mean Uber?

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Re:Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation by ravenstine on Monday April 22, 2019 @02:09PM (#19721172)

> transfer them to a pointless project or put them on something that will cause them to leave on their own accord?

This could be the subject of a dystopia or a dark comedy where the free world has been taken over because could-be revolutionaries are placed on boring, pointless, mismanaged, tail-chasing projects so they have no time to think about the bigger picture or take any real action against the system.

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Re:Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation by AntiTechTechie on Monday April 22, 2019 @03:48PM (#19722194)

> This could be the subject of a dystopia or a dark comedy where the free world has been taken over because could-be revolutionaries are placed on boring, pointless, mismanaged, tail-chasing projects so they have no time to think about the bigger picture or take any real action against the system.

This sounds like the current world we all live and work in...basically we have a bunch of "bullshit jobs" to occupy our time during the day and endless trash entertainment to distract us and keep us from noticing how shitty modern industrial life really is...

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Re:Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation by saagarjha on Monday April 22, 2019 @02:14PM (#19721230)

That is also illegal.

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Re:Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation by iron0013 on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @11:48AM (#19729748)

Hey, could you please stop acting like the idea that someone would follow the law is absurd or laughable?

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Re:Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation by sincerely on Monday April 22, 2019 @04:06PM (#19722354)

You are referring to the concept of "constructive dismissal". This would also be illegal.

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