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Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by dmix on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:11PM (#21819999)
Sharing a cute desktop background is inappropriate but it's only a picture on a background, misusing an internal security mechanism for your own pet activism when visiting a harmless website is a totally different tier of unprofessionalism.

Do you activism in your personal time. Don't use important company resources used to protect employees from harm to push your slogans. Regardless if those slogans are legally legitimate statements in a normal context, like handing out a leaflet on the edge of the property.

Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by CharlesColeman on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:25PM (#21820129)
> internal security mechanism

Correction: an internal message display tool.

> for your own pet activism

> push your slogans

Correction: a warning not to break federal labor law, which Google is actually required to provide.

https://miro.medium.com/max/2000/0*1BTVYLTvuHiJVvp_.jpg

> Do you activism in your personal time.

This is about Google. Apparently their company culture has been the opposite, and they have commonly had lots of political discussions on company time using company resources.

Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by scarmig on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:51PM (#21820353)
> Correction: an internal message display tool.

For the millionth time, it was not a general message display tool. It is a security tool to flag domains that run the risk of data leakage and malware. Trying to hijack a security extension to turn it into a general messaging platform is both stupid and bad for security.

Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by SilasX on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @04:40PM (#21829760)
>Correction: a warning not to break federal labor law, which Google is actually required to provide.

Labor law requires that those notices be posted somewhere in a prominent place employees are likely to see. They definitely don't require them to be posted in arbitrary places at any employee's choice.

Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by geofft on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:29PM (#21820177)
She was protecting employees from harm. Illegally interfering with protected concerted activity hurts the company, and an employee doing so is likely to get fired quite legitimately.

(Furthermore, the laws about protected concerted activity specifically permit you to do your activism at work, not just on your own time.)

Re:Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers o... by dmix on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:52PM (#21820360)
The homepage of a law firm was harming employees requiring a security/privacy tool to be hijacked to have pro-union activism messaging?

Jeez, politics really does make people go funny in the head. As long as it's "their guy" everything is on the table to sidestep logic.