Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o...
by shadowgovt on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @11:55AM
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Googlers are encouraged---well, in the past, have been encouraged---to consider themselves capable of making judgement calls like this one.
That having been said, this would still be considered an unusual call to have made. But had I been on the receiving end of this message, I suspect I'd have found it annoying unless she remembered to suppress it after first display---if she had, I wouldn't have been bothered by it.
Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o...
by dokein on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @04:12PM
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Part of being encouraged to exercise personal judgment is being responsible enough to participate in the consequences. Judgment with no/few personal consequences is reserved for children and legislators.
Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o...
by loopz on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:38AM
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Getting fired is encouragement to you? Why would anyone input any value if having no platform to excercise judgement calls? 2/3 of typical decisions are either wrong or neutral..
She claims she's in a role to make judgment calls on adding content - and that this was reinforced by her previous stellar performance reviews, which made her confident in her judgment - but I don't personally have enough info to know if that's the truth. She very well could be stretching the truth that maybe every other addition she's made was under the direction of HR or product, in which case she is definitely out of line here - it would take the input of a Googler on her team to know for sure.