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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by downdown4eva on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @09:44AM (#21813884)
No, it feels like wilful cognitive dissonance where you all seem to think having two coworkers of no real managerial importance signing off on your company-wide political statement is somehow 'by the book' and everyone else is just a shill, ignorant and somehow didn't read this press release for this poor, poor person who knew exactly what would happen.

EDIT: Let's read the second paragraph of the article again:

"each time Google employees visited the website of IRI Consultants — the Troy, Michigan, firm that Google hired this year amid a groundswell of labor activism at the company"

You see that phrase 'labor activism'? This is the exact cognitive dissonance I am describing here. You want to pretend activism isn't political, that an employee planting a message on the website of a company affiliated with their employer related to this political subject is totally innocent and not a politically charged message. Just 'totally telling you your rights' and nothing more than that. That's intellectually dishonest.

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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by zozbot234 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:05AM (#21814096)
It's not a "political" statement, it's a notice of Googlers' existing obligations under labor law and pursuant to a NLRB settlement. She was indeed correct to warn any Googlers who might interact with the external consulting firm about those obligations.
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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @09:55AM (#21813999)
It's an odd world we live in where factual information about legal rights is dismissed as a "political statement".

As others have said, if she'd abused her access to insert, say, a pithy pop-up about recycling on Earth Day, she would have received a slap on the wrist at the very worst. This isn't about changing the code without authorization. This is about a message Google doesn't want employees to hear.

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