For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.

For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.

  • rolling@lemmy.worldEnglish
    288·
    2 days ago

    She is still working there. Yeah, sure, maybe she is taking a risk now that her name is out there publicly criticizing, but this article is just for her to feel good about herself. “But look guys, I think Google sucks too, I am not bad like them. I just help them accomplish their goals and get paid for it 🙃”

    • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.worldEnglish
      544·
      2 days ago

      She could have said nothing and kept quiet like the thousands of other workers at Google, this could not only get her fired but maybe even blacklisted in the industry, that’s far more than you’ve ever done or will ever do to bring attention to this issue, so how about you keep that cynicism in check.

      • primemagnus@lemmy.caEnglish
        13·
        2 days ago

        100% will get her fired. 100%. Not now as it’s too connectable to the post she made, but in 6 months, they’ll find a reason to can her that can’t be traced to this.

        I recall reading about one senior on the search team who had worked there for over a decade criticizing the changes G keeps making to favor their own interests (ads mostly) saying it degrades search results (he was right too as G has fallen to the same levels of DDG/Bing and Yahoo).

        He got shuffled into a dead roll over the course of a year so he could no longer deter the project.

        Now that’s a guy who didn’t want to build a bad product. What happens to people who take political stances that could hurt G’s revenue and stock prices? Yeah. She’s toast.

      • rolling@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Ohh nooo. Poor her with all the stock options she got while working there from basically their startup days. Whatever this poor damsel will do with 20+ years of experience working in one of the biggest tech companies in the world.

        I might not have the platform to bring attention to this issue, but hey, at least I don’t actively help them, do their work and then reap the benefits of all the evil they do anyways.

        Unlike her, my issues with Google does not end with the Israel issue. Google is evil regardless of this single issue.

      • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
        31·
        22 hours ago

        Well she’s been working there since 2005. So she doesn’t need the job. Or money. Or anything. She’s just there.

        Maybe you’re the one who should keep the cynicism in check if you think people who have everything they could ever have wanted and have benefited on the evil deeds of their employer to the tune of millions and millions of dollars wouldn’t speak out.

    • graff@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      If all the people who disagreed left, there would be no chance of opposition

      • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
        62·
        2 days ago

        You can’t change things from the inside. A level 3 software developer isn’t changing what google is doing.

        She has more power if she’s been there 20 years, but probably not much.

        • graff@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          That may be true, but you know who has less influence than a level 3 software developer working at Google? Someone who doesn’t work at Google :)

      • CalipherJones@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        2 days ago

        As if working at Google is remotely close to directly participating in the fucking Holocaust.

        • primemagnus@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          Yes you’re right. One overtly murders people in gruesome fashion. The other, does it insidiously by destroying the social fabric of communities so mass corporations can swoop in and own everything, forcing you into a further existence of consumption or death. Enjoy working 16h a day under your corporate overlords.