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 @12:34PM (#21816055)

These are stiff consequences for the violation in question for Google.

Individual employees publicly embarrassing the company (https://mobile.twitter.com/jweise/status/491788092710199297?...) or accidentally disrupting the network fabric and costing the company $X in missed revenue don't get fired for first offense. The way this was handled seems unusual, suggesting either there's a piece of the puzzle we internet pundits aren't holding or Google has changed its tolerance policy for honest mistakes.

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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by cc81 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @08:22PM (#21820889)

Depending on what the cause is it might be different. If someone makes a reasonable mistake, like pushes something to production that they should not, then you could argue that there are not enough checks and it is not something you should get fired for. You should change the process.

If someone deliberately goes around those checks to push something anyway then it could be a fire-able offense.

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