Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o...
by sequoia on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @11:09AM
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> But injecting javascript
Come now. It's a browser extension, it's written in JavaScript, and knowingly installed by employees. No "injecting" went on here, let's not try to make this sound more nefarious than it was (not very). Fireable? Perhaps. But not because of a security concern.
(edit: reading more, it's clear that the only thing that makes this "fireable" in google's view is that it promotes union organizing that they oppose. Any other such message would probably not cause firing unless it caused a PR problem, and perhaps not even then.)
Come now. It's a browser extension, it's written in JavaScript, and knowingly installed by employees. No "injecting" went on here, let's not try to make this sound more nefarious than it was (not very). Fireable? Perhaps. But not because of a security concern.
(edit: reading more, it's clear that the only thing that makes this "fireable" in google's view is that it promotes union organizing that they oppose. Any other such message would probably not cause firing unless it caused a PR problem, and perhaps not even then.)