Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract
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The employees were protesting against “Project Nimbus.”

Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday.

In a memo sent to all employees on Wednesday, Chris Rackow, Google’s head of global security, said that “behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it.”

He also warned that the company would take more action if needed: “The overwhelming majority of our employees do the right thing. If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again. The company takes this extremely seriously, and we will continue to apply our longstanding policies to take action against disruptive behavior — up to and including termination.”

  • huginnEnglish
    83·
    7 months ago

    My guy I literally worked there and signed the employee handbook. Don’t Be Evil was right before you signed if I remember right. Regardless: it is 100% in the handbook.

    • realbadat@programming.devEnglish
      83·
      7 months ago

      Alphabet <> Google.

      The parent company, Alphabet, removed it from the handbook. I couldn’t tell you if they put it back in, but Alphabet removed it about 10 years ago.

      This is not some conspiracy theory, it was released, they replaced that section of the handbook.

      ETA:

      Following Google’s corporate restructuring under the conglomerate Alphabet Inc. in October 2015, Alphabet took “Do the right thing” as its motto, also forming the opening of its corporate code of conduct.[1][2][3][4][5] The original motto was retained in Google’s code of conduct, now a subsidiary of Alphabet. Between 21 April and 4 May 2018, the motto was removed from the code of conduct’s preface and retained in its last sentence.[6]

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don’t_be_evil

      https://www.engadget.com/2015/10/02/alphabet-do-the-right-thing/

      https://www.fastcompany.com/3056389/why-google-was-smart-to-drop-its-dont-be-evil-motto

      http://time.com/4060575/alphabet-google-dont-be-evil/

      https://web.archive.org/web/20151004012914/https://investor.google.com/corporate/code-of-conduct.html

      https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-dont-be-evil/254019/

      Your memory of the Google handbook isn’t really relevant.

      • huginnEnglish
        53·
        7 months ago

        The original motto was retained in Google’s code of conduct, now a subsidiary of Alphabet. Between 21 April and 4 May 2018, the motto was removed from the code of conduct’s preface and retained in its last sentence.[6]

        The original motto was retained.

        You’re mistaking “it’s not the first line” with “it got removed”

        Linking news articles from click bait sites doesn’t help your argument.

        • realbadat@programming.devEnglish
          55·
          7 months ago

          Dude.

          Please read what I said. ALPHABET.

          ALPHABET HAS A DIFFERENT HANDBOOK. I have said this multiple times now.

          And I will say again - Alphabet copied the handbook in restructuring then removed it.

          The Google handbook IS NOT RELEVANT AT ALL. READ WHAT I WROTE.

          • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
            32·
            7 months ago

            The article is about Google. Why does it matter that it’s missing from the Alphabet handbook?

            • realbadat@programming.devEnglish
              41·
              7 months ago

              They commented “I don’t know why people keep saying they removed it”.

              People say that because it was big news when alphabet, in restructuring, removed/replaced it from their duplicate handbook. It was removed as the Google motto as well, and kept only in the last portion.

              So why do people think Google removed it? Becase ten years ago it was big news that Alphabet removed it.

              This ain’t rocket surgery.

              • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
                3·
                7 months ago

                Oh, I see. You’re clarifying why jonne thought this was the case, not arguing for why they’re correct.

                • realbadat@programming.devEnglish
                  2·
                  7 months ago

                  Correct.

                  Which the other person is consistently ignoring and getting salty about, and selectively ignoring my comments to be mad because “but Google has it in the handbook!” rather than actually read what I said.

          • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
            34·
            7 months ago

            Read your own quote dude…

            Following Google’s corporate restructuring under the conglomerate Alphabet Inc. in October 2015, Alphabet took “Do the right thing” as its motto, also forming the opening of its corporate code of conduct.[1][2][3][4][5] The original motto was retained in Google’s code of conduct, now a subsidiary of Alphabet. Between 21 April and 4 May 2018, the motto was removed from the code of conduct’s preface and retained in its last sentence.[6]

            Bold is my own. “RETAINED IN ITS LAST SENTENCE”. Meaning it’s not in the preface, but still exists as the last sentence of CoC, presumably the same one the other user claims they signed. THIS IS FROM YOUR OWN SOURCE THAT YOU QUOTED.