Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize

Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by pr0zac on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @09:57AM (#21814014)

Well no, but considering that she seems to have followed the correct processes if she had done that I'd have expected the response to be rolling back the commit and a follow up postmortem to document what was missing from the process that allowed it to happen and changes made to the process to prevent it from happening in the future. Not firing the employee. You shouldn't blame workers for system failures.

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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by scarface74 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:04AM (#21814084)

What if your manager told you it was okay to post “Make America Great Again” or “Hope” (Obama’s slogan) slogans on everyone’s desk because he was staunch Republican/Democrat - would you just shrug and say “my manager said it was okay”?

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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by danso on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:09AM (#21814169)

Again, labor/union messaging has protections that political campaigning does not. If you were a manager and you told your employee to throw away the pro-union pamphlet that you taped to your cubicle wall, your manager would be putting the company in legal trouble.

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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by scarface74 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:12AM (#21814209)

Taping it to your wall is acceptable. Posting it to my computer screen isn’t.

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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by throwaway2048 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:23AM (#21814356)

why, and more importantly, why is this an "immediately fire" level of offense, would this have been the result if the popup reminded you that its earth day?

Its naive to think her firing had nothing to do with the fact Google doesn't like unions.

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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by scarface74 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:46AM (#21814647)

Why? It’s just like religion. If your religion tells you not to drink, I will respect that. If your religion tells you that I’m not allowed to drink I will tell you to f’ off.

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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by throwaway2048 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:51AM (#21814707)

The irony being of course, Google's entire business is shoving ads into people's faces that approximately nobody wants to see.

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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by scarface74 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:55AM (#21814744)

And guess what? I don’t need government intervention for that either. I can install an ad blocker, not use software that is ad based with no way to get rid of the ads and not buy Android phones. Free will is great isn’t it?

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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by antpol on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @01:40AM (#21822421)

But the owners of websites want to show these google ads to you. Who is in control of content: the viewers or creators/hosters?

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