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Re:Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest by koheripbal on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @08:01AM (#21637862)
No, it is more like checking it manually every single day. ...which is would be akin to following someone in public and filming them. Technically, it's all in public, but it is no less likely to make people feel stalked and unsafe.

The underlying part here is that these employees were using the notion of "unions" to organize _politically_.

...and their willingness to act against fellow employees and leak company documents demonstrates just how dirty they would have become had they been allowed to continue.

Personally, I don't think they cared at all about worker rights beyond their desire to advocate their politics.

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Re:Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest by sodosopa on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @09:12AM (#21638386)
Checking an employee’s public internal calendar every day, the bastards. /s

Why were they using company resources for personal meetings?

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Re:Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest by dragonwriter on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @10:06AM (#21638843)
> Why were they using company resources for personal meetings?

Probably because it represents time that are unavailable for work and, in many cases, because their are people at work (including their boss) entitled to know the reason, and who probably established that as the workflow for sharing the information.

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Re:Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest by _wolfie_ on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @10:48AM (#21639275)
Yeah, and that's why you put full details in your personal calendar and into the work one "Doctor's appointment" or something without expanding on that any further.
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Re:Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest by markstos on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @09:50AM (#21638686)
If I have a doctor's appointment in the middle of the day, I might add it to my personal calendar with full details, but I still need to add an entry to my work calendar to show I'll be out of the office, possibly with a generic title like "Medical Appt".
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Re:Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest by tomjen3 on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @10:54AM (#21639341)
I wouldn't do that personally. It would say "Busy" and nothing else - that is all the company needs to know.
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Re:Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest by tylerl on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @10:40AM (#21639196)
> Why were they using company resources for personal meetings?

So that coworkers don't schedule you for meetings during your doctor appointments.

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Re:Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest by sodosopa on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @11:32AM (#21639785)
Add blockers on your calendar for that time.
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Re:Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest by lonelappde on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @08:08AM (#21637909)
They have only announced circumstantial evidence that the so-called "stalking" was related to the leak.

Remember, the so-called stalking was looking at information that the owner chose to share with the company and didn't mark the "private" flag on (which is available as a default to apply to all meetings).

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