Re:Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file...
by racional on Thursday May 02, 2024 @03:54PM
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He sought to join the protestors
He went to "check out", and for a fraction of that time "talk with" the protestors, by the words you are quoting.
To "join the protestors" (implying some sort of direct participation) would of course be something entirely different, and in no way grounded in that text.
It doesn't matter 4 hours v. 4 min
An impartial observer of the situation would most likely strongly disagree with that take. In any case it certainly doesn't sound (from the description we have) that the net duration was anywhere near the former value. More likely it was around 20 min max.
Re:Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file...
by worried4future on Thursday May 02, 2024 @10:42PM
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> assuming he must be guilty of something awful
He is. He is guilty of doing something his employer didn't like and they fired him for it.
By his own admission he sought to join the protestors (he went to the lounge on the 10th floor of Google’s New York City office around lunchtime to check out the protest) and spent an indeterminate amount of time talking with protestors the first time around (I talked to folks who were standing up, passing out flyers, doing other roles)
Anyway it doesn't matter if he spent 40 minutes talking to them, four hours talking to them or 4 minutes talking to them