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 extropy on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:28AM (#21814412)

Google needs to choose between two evils here:

Give employees power / freedom and fire fast if you do stupid things.

Stricter regulations/ checks so they cannot mess up hard in the first place. At the cost of slower pace and less risks taken.

Google has historically been the former. And it comes with people doing stupid things and getting fired. Just the world is not used for huge companies to keep operating in such mode.

I applaud Google for keeping being open and not enforcing processes. The rest of the world will grow up eventually.

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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by raxxorrax on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:40AM (#21814563)

True that the former strategy requires more responsibility from employees. In larger companies you have more opportunity for your behavior not being penalized, so many companies increase strictness of processes.

But I fail to see how the employee in question did something that justifies firing her. Maybe there are other factors involved, but I certainly think that people opting for getting rid of her only on the basis of publicly available information shouldn't have any form of responsibility for staff to be honest.

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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by quotemstr on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @12:03PM (#21815615)

Google's open culture wasn't designed to be robust against internal activists trying to leak, spam political messages, and incite dissatisfaction everywhere. Google's open culture assumed good faith, and that's gone now.

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