Re:Apple just fired a leader of the AppleToo movement
by ferdowsi on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:16PM
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I've noticed tech employees conducting organizing activities using workplace resources, such as Slack. Even if I agree with the spirit of organizing activity, many people doing it seem totally out of their depth. Of course you are going to get nailed, unless the company is tolerating your organizing as PR or as a venting mechanism.
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Re:Apple just fired a leader of the AppleToo movement
by alexashka on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:48PM
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> many people doing it seem totally out of their depth
Sure, they are just testing out the activism they were being taught in universities out in the real world and quickly learning that what they were taught in school only works when you pay them (at university), not when they pay you (at work). Oopsies.
Re:Apple just fired a leader of the AppleToo movement
by zozbot234 on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:24PM
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Last I checked, conducting organizing activities was something you cannot be fired for under employment law. What am I missing here?
Re:Apple just fired a leader of the AppleToo movement
by bigjimmyjohnson on Friday October 15, 2021 @04:13PM
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To borrow a quote from the motorcycle community:
"The graveyard is full of people who had the right of way."
Re:Apple just fired a leader of the AppleToo movement
by SV_BubbleTime on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:36PM
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We’re not firing you for that you’re being fired for one of the literally hundred thousands of reasons we can fire you for. Side note, It’s really disappointing that even after all the memos, you weren’t putting cover letters on your TPS reports.
(in this case the claimed reason is firing for deleting things from work devices while under investigation)