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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by glofish on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @09:56AM (#21814010)
What if the message was: "Make America Great Again".

What if the message was: "H1B - go back to your country".

would it still feel ok to you?

etc

it is grossly unprofessional to insert unrelated messaging and hijack a tool to push your agenda.

"Going through standard protocols" in this case meant two other people approved the change - those two people also show serious unprofessionalism and bear responsibility as well - it is not an excuse.

Edit:

I have now also read the author's take on it.

https://medium.com/@ksspiers/google-fires-another-worker-for...

I do feel that the way Google went about it was heavy-handed and reflects badly on Google as well.

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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by shantly on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:27AM (#21814407)
It's more like posting a reminder of the current legal minimum wage—and only showed up, apparently, if the user visited the site of a consulting firm Google hired to help them figure out how to avoid unionization.

A great and entirely "professional" thing to do? Nah, but hardly worth the vigorous harumphing and tut-tutting it's receiving. It's not like she contributed code to Amp or spearheaded putting ads inline with and above search results. You know, nothing terribly evil.

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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by glofish on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:51AM (#21814700)
I think, especially in the light of how it was targeted, a better analogy would be the act of popping a message from the Democrats when visiting the Republican RNC website or vice-versa.

I find it oppressive - the mere "reminder" wants to interfere, it wants to to take away your ability to think for yourself and make up your own mind.

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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by dlp211 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @05:06PM (#21819453)
I don't get how so many of the comments on here go straight to political messaging. It's an NLRB notice. There is nothing political about it.
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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by foogazi on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:57AM (#21814759)
> A great and entirely "professional" thing to do? Nah

So unprofessional?

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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by shantly on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @11:07AM (#21814891)
Somewhat, rather, not not unprofessional, perhaps.
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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by relluic on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @12:55PM (#21816352)
The part I found interesting was that the pop up was on a page specifically about labor rights: https://miro.medium.com/max/1000/0*1BTVYLTvuHiJVvp_.jpg

So it's not really inserting unrelated message. I feel like this is completely lost for some reason.

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