Following a protest against Google contracts with Is real, Google tells workers not to talk politics
Google: Don't discuss politics.
Also Google: BLM, pride month, HR explicitly promoting relocation to pro-choice states, massive donations
In reality, everyone is entitled to share Google's opinion, which is made up on the fly to make money
Their marketing strategy for their phone is that it's not racist lol
Google created an environment for their employees to get political (and fire anyone who shared opposing opinions) and now act shocked that they've groomed an entire corporate structure of activists.
Something about chickens and coming home to roost.
We had a massive fight in Slack over abortion between two offices, an ultra liberal Seattle and another was a podunk ultra-religious town in Utah where the company was founded. It got so stupidly heated that a bunch of people were threatened with discipline and one women @here'd everyone and said she would adopt any babies they didn't want and also wanted to tell them all her faith testimony.
At another company, a woman almost quit during a very heated argument about what "real" BBQ was . . .
Whichever side of the politics you are on, it may seem like a good time to unionize so the workers can at least negotiate their end instead of being dictated terms.
our first demand is the right to spend the entire workday screeching about politics
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