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 shadowgovt on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @11:55AM (#21815495)

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.

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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by dokein on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @04:12PM (#21818896)

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.

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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by loopz on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:38AM (#21822149)

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..

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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by dlp211 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @04:22PM (#21818979)

The consequences to something like this should not to be fired. It is a CL rollback and a blameless postmortem.

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