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Re:Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US ... by acituan on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:24PM (#25284119)
Can you contextualize who you are, so that I can better understand “us”? You mention seriousness as an absolute virtue, but if it fires people for a harmless, easily correctable mistake in an internal tool, it is just misguided and an excuse especially if it “happens” to serve some ulterior motive.
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Re:Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US ... by orangecat on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:44PM (#25284665)
It's not harmless. Google is very concerned about internal security, and putting irrelevant messages in security notifications makes them more likely to be ignored in the future. Your ASCII dinosaur hypothetical is a good way to think about it, and I wouldn't be surprised or outraged if that also resulted in the offender being fired.
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