https://www.elle.com/culture/tech/a30259355/google-walkout-organizer-claire-stapleton/ “During my last six months at Google, I would become intimately familiar with just how closed off the company’s famously “open” corporate culture had become—and how far the management would go to prevent its staff from holding the company accountable.” Google seems to have hired a lot of people who either drank way too much kool aid when they joined, or simply don’t understand how a for-profit company works. I find these accounts to be completely bizarre and delusional. Maybe Google created this mess by mixing their kool aid a little too strong?
It seems to me that Google has changed dramatically from what it used to be. Now they are just like any other big company, and it does seem like they are becoming more and more closed off.
Those people should work at Albertsons instead and they can complain whatever the heck they want.
“Google was my first real job...” explains everything. No concept of reality.
Yeah I’ve been wondering how many Googlers are rolling their eyes in silence over this drama. Not that Google shouldn’t be questioned... but “holding your employer accountable” is not in your job description, so why all the outrage when they let you go?
That’s like saying our elected government can commit whatever crimes they want and then put you into prison for exposing their crimes.
^ LOL. A company has nothing to do with a democratically elected government. It's more like a plutocracy which you can simply leave if you don't like it anymore.
What kind of company is afraid of their employees opinions? One that’s going to struggle. It doesn’t mean that they have to bend to every whim of the employees, but this is an idiotic response from leadership.
What if Google started censoring our search results?
Google was the only company that WAS different at some point. They’ve lost their mojo though.
Not true. My friend has his own company and he can say whatever the hell he wants.
With this reasoning for taking a job ... “I’m a new grad who started at Google two weeks after the Walkout,” she told me, a little flustered. “And I just wanted to say thanks. I came to Google hoping to organize and be part of something like this and well, here it is. The movement.”
That's why leadership is getting more heavy-handed and swift in their reactions. If they don't act, this will attract more rabble-rousers, left and right wing, and things will get out of hand.
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Not when Google is their first and only job, no. They don’t.
Majority of googlers do not work on a business making profit. Majority of googlers don't need to care about how they'll keep the stock growing or lights on. Google is the new IBM, HP, Dell, Oracle. Etc. If it were split up most would be laid off