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Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics
WaPo ^ | April 23, 2024 | Gerrit De Vynck and Caroline O'Donovan

Posted on 04/23/2024 1:26:31 PM PDT by Red Badger

Some employees protested the tech giant’s contract with the Israeli government. They’ve been let go.

SAN FRANCISCO — Google fired about 20 more workers whom it said participated in protests denouncing the company’s cloud computing deal with the Israeli government, bringing the total number of workers fired in the past week over the issue to more than 50, according to the activist group representing the workers.

A spokesperson for Google confirmed it had fired more workers after continuing its investigation into the April 16 protests, which included sit-ins at Google’s offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, Calif.

The firings come several days after chief executive Sundar Pichai told employees in a companywide memo that they should not use the company as a “personal platform” or “fight over disruptive issues or debate politics.”

“The corporation is attempting to quash dissent, silence its workers and reassert its power over them,” said Jane Chung, a spokesperson for No Tech for Apartheid, a group that has protested Google’s and Amazon’s contracts with the Israeli government since 2021.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: google
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1 posted on 04/23/2024 1:26:31 PM PDT by Red Badger
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Did they fire any protesting the inhumane Chinese deals. O wait


2 posted on 04/23/2024 1:28:41 PM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with.)
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To: Red Badger

No religion, no politics. And no sex talk either, but they probably don’t follow that one.


3 posted on 04/23/2024 1:29:17 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Red Badger

good fire the KKK Democrat jew haters!


4 posted on 04/23/2024 1:29:38 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Red Badger

Will they offer James Damore his job back?


5 posted on 04/23/2024 1:30:36 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Red Badger

Funny.
They made the entirety of the office nothing but politics for years and now they’ve found left wing politics they don’t want in their office.


6 posted on 04/23/2024 1:32:52 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Red Badger

wait, can you even fire people anymore? I guess you can if you’re googgle.


7 posted on 04/23/2024 1:35:58 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: Pearls Before Swine

That was the incident that really made me make some effort to de-Google my life.

A resource:

https://old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/


8 posted on 04/23/2024 1:39:22 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Red Badger

Beatings will continue until morale improves.


9 posted on 04/23/2024 1:39:31 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Red Badger

Google is obviously just fine with politics in the workplace. Hell, one of the company Founders as well as the CEO were up on stage wailing about Trump winning the day after the election in 2016.

Those getting political this time made a big mistake. Their target was Israel but they should have done more research on both of the Founders. That kind of politics was never going to be acceptable at Google.


10 posted on 04/23/2024 1:40:41 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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Politics and religion discussions equal massive loss of productivity


11 posted on 04/23/2024 1:41:57 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: Darksheare
Funny. They made the entirety of the office nothing but politics for years and now they’ve found left wing politics they don’t want in their office.

When both of the company Founders are Jewish, bringing anti Israeli....with more than a tinge of anti semitic politics into the open is probably not going to be very good for your career prospects there.

12 posted on 04/23/2024 1:42:23 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Red Badger

All for show folks. Google will hire them back and more after the election.


13 posted on 04/23/2024 1:47:46 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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Sundar Pichai absolutely believes the Google workplace is for politics. They've benefited from billions of illegal political contributions-in-kind. He only opposes politics that his globalist masters tell him to.
14 posted on 04/23/2024 1:51:11 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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That’s Rich! Google has always been a hotbed of leftist politics.


15 posted on 04/23/2024 1:59:47 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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I hope existing disgruntled employees don’t hack and sabotage Google’s systems.


16 posted on 04/23/2024 2:23:19 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: FLT-bird
When both of the company Founders are Jewish, bringing anti Israeli....with more than a tinge of anti semitic politics into the open is probably not going to be very good for your career prospects there.

It's called a CLM - Career Limiting Move!

17 posted on 04/23/2024 2:34:39 PM PDT by null and void (Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you, except our side, of course!)
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I was under the impression that in too many cases the ordering of Google search results was all about politics.


18 posted on 04/23/2024 2:35:41 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: Red Badger

The title is funny... Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics

That’s all Google is, one sided politics.


19 posted on 04/23/2024 2:40:55 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Red Badger

Says the most politically connected deep state company ever.


20 posted on 04/23/2024 2:55:05 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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