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Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday.

In a memo sent to all employees on Wednesday, Chris Rackow, Google’s head of global security, said that “behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it.”

He also warned that the company would take more action if needed: “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.”

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[–] huginn@feddit.it 2 points 7 months ago (7 children)

The original motto was retained in Google's code of conduct, now a subsidiary of Alphabet. Between 21 April and 4 May 2018, the motto was removed from the code of conduct's preface and retained in its last sentence.[6]

The original motto was retained.

You're mistaking "it's not the first line" with "it got removed"

Linking news articles from click bait sites doesn't help your argument.

[–] realbadat@programming.dev 0 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Dude.

Please read what I said. ALPHABET.

ALPHABET HAS A DIFFERENT HANDBOOK. I have said this multiple times now.

And I will say again - Alphabet copied the handbook in restructuring then removed it.

The Google handbook IS NOT RELEVANT AT ALL. READ WHAT I WROTE.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Read your own quote dude...

Following Google’s corporate restructuring under the conglomerate Alphabet Inc. in October 2015, Alphabet took “Do the right thing” as its motto, also forming the opening of its corporate code of conduct.[1][2][3][4][5] The original motto was retained in Google’s code of conduct, now a subsidiary of Alphabet. Between 21 April and 4 May 2018, the motto was removed from the code of conduct’s preface and retained in its last sentence.[6]

Bold is my own. "RETAINED IN ITS LAST SENTENCE". Meaning it's not in the preface, but still exists as the last sentence of CoC, presumably the same one the other user claims they signed. THIS IS FROM YOUR OWN SOURCE THAT YOU QUOTED.

[–] realbadat@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

GOOGLE KEPT IT IN THEIRS.

ALPHABET DID NOT.

Holy shit dude. Read.

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