Re:Facebook, Google Drop Out of Top ‘Best Places to Work’ List
by m0zg on Thursday December 12, 2019 @02:33AM
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Damore is the extreme case. There's a small clique of people there that do "social justice" activism on internal forums and little else. Damore pissed right into their punchbowl.
I'm not 100% sure why Google keeps those people around, but they are fairly easy to avoid: just don't engage, no matter how insane their ramblings are on any given week.
Re:Facebook, Google Drop Out of Top ‘Best Places to Work’ List
by downerending on Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:45PM
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When it comes to things like threats of physical violence, threats to get someone fired, or even blacklisted at other companies, I expect to see offenders immediately dismissed. That's a basic workplace hygiene issue, and none of the companies I've ever worked for would tolerate it.
Re:Facebook, Google Drop Out of Top ‘Best Places to Work’ List
by m0zg on Saturday December 14, 2019 @05:06AM
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I agree with you on that one. But as much as this sucks, it doesn't have to suck _for you_. Just come in, do your work, leave, collect $12-20K (pretax) every 2 weeks depending on the level. Google is fine with that. You don't have to engage with this bullshit.
I've been in the $300s a couple of times, but my ability to get much useful done, joy of workmanship was completely washed out by the fairly nasty politics of the groups I was part of.
(I've never worked at Google, but after reading the internal message traffic surfaced in the Damore lawsuit, it's difficult to imagine enjoying it.)