Posted on 04/18/2024 8:56:16 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
The pro-Palestinian staffers — who wore traditional Arab headscarves as they stormed and occupied the office of a top executive in California on Tuesday — were terminated late Wednesday after an internal investigation, Google vice president of global security Chris Rackow said in a companywide memo.
“They took over office spaces, defaced our property, and physically impeded the work of other Googlers,” Rackow wrote in the memo obtained by The Post. “Their behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made co-workers feel threatened.”
The fired staffers are affiliated with a group called No Tech For Apartheid, which has been critical of Google’s response to the Israel-Hamas war.
The protesters have demanded that Google pull out of a $1.2 billion “Project Nimbus” contract — in which Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services provide cloud-computing and artificial intelligence services for the Israeli government and military.
The impacted workers blasted Google over the firings in a statement shared by No Tech For Apartheid spokesperson Jane Chung.
“This evening, Google indiscriminately fired 28 workers, including those among us who did not directly participate in yesterday’s historic, bicoastal 10-hour sit-in protests,” the workers said in the statement.
“Sundar Pichai and Thomas Kurian are genocide profiteers,” the statement added, referring to Google’s CEO and the CEO of its cloud unit, respectively.
“We cannot comprehend how these men are able to sleep at night while their tech has enabled 100,000 Palestinians killed, reported missing, or wounded in the last six months of Israel’s genocide — and counting.” ...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
No unemployment if your fired for cause !
I’m surprised Israel is trusting Google with their military data.
Yep- that sounds whackadoodle for sure-
All businesses should do this.
“indiscriminately”? No, it sounds like Google fired only those f***tards who weren’t smart enough to realize they were volunteering to be fired.
Living proof the gene pool is contaminated some genes fail to make the trip.
Googlers. That’s really what they call themselves.
Finagler, wrangler, strangler,regaler, handler.
It’s one of those deep mysteries: what goes on in the mind of a moron. We may never know.
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