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| Google security engineer says she was fired for daring to remind Googlers they do indeed have labor rights |
| 2019-12-19 |
| h/t Gates of Vienna Google on Friday fired security engineer Kathryn Spiers after she created a Chrome popup notification reminding her colleagues that they have the "right to participate in protected concerted activities." Spiers claims she was fired for labor organizing, a protected workplace activity. She says she wrote the code ‐ which generated a notification for Googlers and is for internal use only ‐ after hearing that the internet giant had hired a union-busting consultancy and fired four workers on November 25 who were said to be involved in labor organizing. "I created a little notification, only a few lines of code, that pops up in the corner of the browser whenever my coworkers visited the union busters’ website or the community guidelines policy," she explained on Monday. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 Moar H-1B visa replacements? |
| Posted by: Angating the Wide5629 2019-12-19 12:01 |
| #6 I am curious what the demands of the Google Union would be. More thought control? Hundreds of additional bathrooms to cover every pronoun? All non-vegan food removed from vending machines? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-12-19 11:28 |
| #5 Not capitalists. They're market manipulators who've been allowed, thanks to all the baksheesh they've spread in Washington-Babylon, to skirt the antimonopoly and competition laws and create a two-sided market in which they not only dominate both sides but also run an opaque auction whose results they refuse to disclose to other participants. It's as if we allowed one investment house to dominate both the buy-and sell-side trading AND own & operate NASDAQ and the NYSE ... and create its own monopoly trading platform in which the other traders are never allowed to see a bid/ask spread. All of this blatantly anticompetitive activity has been going on for more than 15 years! We are living through the most corrup period in our history since the days of Jay Gould and Rockefeller. Shame on our corrupt, mendacious, stupid lawmakers. Shame on us for allowing this to happen. /rant |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-19 11:06 |
| #4 Of course Google (who imitates academia) is against capitalism - their mindset favors slavery. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-12-19 09:36 |
| #3 So basically she hijacked her employer's product to send a political message that suited her point of view. Sounds like a fireable offense. I'm no gurgle fan (I sure don't use chrome) but maybe if they act like a capitalist operation they can come around in other ways too. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-12-19 08:56 |
| #2 People are most conservative about those things they know the most about. Socialism is about using other peoples money and resources. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-12-19 07:34 |
| #1 ...Live by the code, die by the code. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2019-12-19 05:23 |