victory: Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract 
Follow up to this https://rdrama.net/h/slackernews/post/261890/marseyvaxmaxx-masked-google-employees-are-currently
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https://twitter.com/NoTechApartheid/status/1780780635302334712 this is the group they're involved with.
https://twitter.com/rich_goldberg/status/1780782139765575829
https://twitter.com/jpodhoretz/status/1780776499169153447
Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract
Google has fired 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the search giant's offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, to protest the company's $1.2 billion cloud contract with Israel, The Post has learned.
The pro-Palestinian staffers — who had donned 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 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.”
“Behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it. It clearly violates multiple policies that all employees must adhere to – including our code of conduct and policy on harassment, discrimination, retaliation, standards of conduct, and workplace concerns.”
Rackow added that the company “takes this extremely seriously, and we will continue to apply our longstanding policies to take action against disruptive behavior – up to and including termination.”
The 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 group had posted several videos and livestreams of the protests on its X account — including the exact moment that employees were issued final warnings and arrested by local police for trespassing.
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.
“This flagrant act of retaliation is a clear indication that Google values its $1.2 billion contract with the genocidal Israeli government and military more than its own workers — the ones who create real value for executives and shareholders.”
“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.”
An NYPD spokesperson said the Tuesday protest “involved approximately 50 participants” in total and confirmed “four arrests were made for trespassing inside the Google building.”
The Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety said the protest in California “consisted of around 80 participants.” A total of five protesters who refused to leave the Google office were “arrested without incident for criminal trespassing,” booked and released, a spokesperson added.
It couldn't immediately be learned if all nine arrested employees were among those who were fired. Google had earlier placed the employees on administrative leave and cut their access to internal systems.
Last month, Google fired a software engineer who publicly blasted one of the company's Israel-based executives during a tech conference in New York City.
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When reached for comment, a Google spokesperson confirmed the firings.
“These protests were part of a longstanding campaign by a group of organizations and people who largely don't work at Google,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
“A small number of employee protesters entered and disrupted a few of our locations. Physically impeding other employees' work and preventing them from accessing our facilities is a clear violation of our policies, and completely unacceptable behavior.”
“We have so far concluded individual investigations that resulted in the termination of employment for 28 employees, and will continue to investigate and take action as needed,” the spokesperson added.
Critics at the company raised concerns that the technology would be weaponized against Palestinians in Gaza.
The demonstrators stormed the personal office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in Sunnyvale.
Kurian's custom-made, framed Golden State Warriors jersey was visible on the office wall in the background of the livestream, and employees wrote a list of their demands on his white board.
The pro-Palestinian employees, who are affiliated with a group called No Tech For Apartheid, posted several videos and livestreams of the protests — including the moment they were issued final warnings and arrested by local police for trespassing.
The companywide memo can be read in its entirety below.
Googlers,
You may have seen reports of protests at some of our offices yesterday. Unfortunately, a number of employees brought the event into our buildings in New York and Sunnyvale. They took over office spaces, defaced our property, and physically impeded the work of other Googlers. Their behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made co-workers feel threatened. We placed employees involved under investigation and cut their access to our systems. Those who refused to leave were arrested by law enforcement and removed from our offices.
Following investigation, today we terminated the employment of twenty-eight employees found to be involved. We will continue to investigate and take action as needed.
Behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it. It clearly violates multiple policies that all employees must adhere to – including our Code of Conduct and Policy on Harassment, Discrimination, Retaliation, Standards of Conduct, and Workplace Concerns.
We are a place of business and every Googler is expected to read our policies and apply them to how they conduct themselves and communicate in our workplace. The overwhelming majority of our employees do the right thing. If you're one of the few who are tempted to think we're going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again. The company takes this extremely seriously, and we will continue to apply our longstanding policies to take action against disruptive behavior – up to and including termination.
You should expect to hear more from leaders about standards of behavior and discourse in the workplace.
Chris
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Based Google, every antisemite terrorist supporting scum deserves this and worse. Should've continued to do their job, instead of making a mess intentionally.
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/r/byebyejob
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https://old.reddit.com/r/byebyejob/comments/1c6n6e7/google_staffers_arrested_placed_on_leave_after/?sort=controversial
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The seething is delish
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Wow, it's doing way better than I expected lmao
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here's the thread bb
https://old.reddit.com/r/byebyejob/comments/1c6n6e7/google_staffers_arrested_placed_on_leave_after/?sort=controversial
89% upvoted
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/r/workershermancainaward
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Guess 30,000 wasn't winning enough hearts and minds.
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how could you be so callous when 3 million Palestinians are confirmed dead? It's literally another Holocaust
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Literally infinity Palestinians
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NUH UH, infinity PLUS ONE palestinians.
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You'd think they'd have learned from the Israelis that massively inflating your numbers only makes people less likely to believe you
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dont pretend like holocaust deniers would have been on board had the numbers been less
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They ahould have protested women or something. Doesnt google have yearly protests?
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The free world:
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LET OUR POWERS COMBINE
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Every
one microsecond after learning Pakistan supports Palestine:
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I swear these people just make up weird words like this to sound academic.
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other confusing academic words the libs made up:
Biweekly
Binocular
Bifold
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bisexual
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Bingus
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Bimisia
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Bussy
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You ever think about biweekly though? I've seen it mean twice a week, or every 2 weeks.
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Obviously you'd say fortnightly if you meant every two weeks
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Big
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B
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Biweekly is actually confusing, though, since people can't seem to decide whether it's twice weekly or every two weeks
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!eurochads this is what the burger education system turns out
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is this what NA education produces
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Not giving a shit about the Middle East has done wonders for my personal life.
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Look at these brave mujahideen sacrificing their 250k jobs to stop the genocide
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I might consider respecting their sacrifice if they actually knew they were making a sacrifice. But they're so stupid they didn't even realize there would be consequences.
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They believed in their cause so much they were willing to put nothing on the line because Google is just like a fun college campus!
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yup, they still followed every rule (remember protest ends by 5!) and were compliant as possible to minimize any disruption to anyone.
They thought it was just a fun thing to do and live stream
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Guy in the bottom right is the dorkiest cute twink.
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unironically these people are way cooler than every dramatard cause:
1. they (were) gainfully employed
2. they have strong convictions that they actually hold (besides hating trains or whatever)
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Having strong convictions isn't cool if your convictions are r-slurred.
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If you're posting on arrdrama.net your convictions are probably r-slurred
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What in the world led you to believe that anyone here has any sincerely held beliefs?
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Having strong convinctions is for nerds. Like every dramachad my values change to become what will most annoy the person I am arguing with
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they are wearings masks for fricks sake
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Being fooled into having strong convictions by propaganda is not the same as having strong convictions
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Being pro-IDF is like the most propagandized position you can have
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I'm not pro-either, I don't give a frick
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The masks lmao
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They provided real value for the company that went on to support genocide? Sis, you're complicit too then.
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This EVIL corporation values MONEY more than my FEELINGS
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Something is deeply wrong, I almost liked Pichai for a moment
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who wouldn't fire 22 bozos if it would cost 1.2 billion to keep them on? I don't think the NFL would fork out 1.2 billion if they had 22 Tom Bradys even.
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straight white men not seeming too bad now
Follower of Christ
Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.
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Lmao so a somewhat stressful workday?
No way!
Imagine getting fired from your cushy job at google because you just had to virtue signal your support for palestinoids
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Bro, they're Google Cloud employees. Nothing cushy, they're all on incredibly thin ice making a garage product with layoffs every few months. Like literally the only reason to use cloud is if your company is you really like the Google business integration (basic dashboards) or your employees are too r-slurred for AWS.
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Keep telling yourself that sweaty.
I'm sure it makes you feel better after your application got denied for your dream job at Google.
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If I have to spend more than three hours on task I'm taking a mental health day afterwards
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I honestly don't know wtf is wrong with zoomers that they think they can play these r-slurred games outside of really permissive colleges. Even the hippies understood that you have to partially grow up if you want one of these jobs.
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Tbf, Google pretends that it is exactly like a really permissive college, only it pays you hundreds of thousands of dollars instead of the other way around.
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If google allowed dumb as excrement protests in the past, then they might have a case for wrongful firing
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They had a "walkout" for #metoo but it was dumb and performative and didn't involve taking over offices or being disruptive.
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I am sick and tired of these men! They are vile and will try to r*pe or harass you. Watch out for them!
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"MEN could be here" she thought, "I've never been in this neighborhood before. There could be MEN anywhere." The cool wind felt good against her bald head. "I HATE MEN" she thought.
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ou're forgetting the part about being a foid
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With a peepee you can go anywhere you want
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Yet it was endorsed by google but not jew hate hmmmm
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They had absolutely no consequences when they did these things before, most obviously during the Summer of Love. So they've just presumed that still holds true.
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They forgot that this is the one left-wing cause that the big ESG corporations don't support.
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Fight
jews and you will lose
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lmao HR accusing the protestors of retaliation is just
The irony is too perfect.
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darvo isn't just something to sneed about, it's a playbook for winners
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No longer formerly twitter huh?
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I will take whosever side
@sandkwinn takes because I'm in love with her
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It costs $1.2 billion?
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It would be utterly shocking if there was corruption in Israeli defense contracts.
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They were wearing masks
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Uhhh, yeah. Of course it does. It's a fricking corporation. Anyone who ever thought otherwise needs their head checked.
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Lmao. The contract is creating a lot of value for the executives and shareholders, $1.2bn to be precise. Meanwhile theyve probably already interviewed 20 H1B sexy Indian dudes for each of the 28 open positions.
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Total sexy Indian dude victory
It's over for yts
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Do. Not. Redeem.
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#marseysoypointgold:
The goldens really be breaking out nowadays
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Oh look, it's my new favourite emote.
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#goldenshower:
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Lmao it's literally pennies for Google. Like holy shit dude it's your job I would literally do anything for a paycheck if a decent enough size
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Google will probably try to cuck these folks out of their severances too.
Its also a mild nightmare for codecel job market in California too.
For 300k+TC, I would call Mark Zuckerberg a living saint and use this as my wallpaper on my company laptop.
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Another fat L for the palestards. Jewbros stay winning.
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THE GLA WILL BE VICTORIUS
Anyway, I kinda wanna know what this 1.2B deal is about. That's a lot of moolah.
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Average Palestinian things
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I think I'll debug my potty over the upcoming weekend.
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The top posts in all these threads give me a headache lmfao
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How do they do it?
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An open interval is the special case that needs clarification god I hate midwits
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you say you program in rust, but it seems you haven't actually released any software, curious?
Snapshots:
https://nypost.com/2024/04/17/business/google-fires-28-employees-involved-in-sit-in-protest-over-1-2b-israel-contract/:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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