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.”
The memo looks like it comes straight out of dystopian novel
How did we get here
What's dystopian about it? Employees violated company policy and they were fired because of it. There are acceptable and unacceptable ways to handle it, and those employees chose to handle it unprofessionally.
If they want to protest on their own time and on public property, they should have every right. But protesting on company property shouldn't have any special protections.
I'm no fan of Google and I think their business choices are despicable, but that doesn't change the fact that first amendment protections do not apply in a typical workplace, they only serve to restrict government action. So it's completely unsurprising that Google fired employees who destroyed company property and disrupted the work environment.
I think it's the part where they are ready to go to the extent of hiring a T800 from the future to kill your mother before you were born
I thought they were talking about the firing.
I totally agree with Google's partnership with Israel being dystopic.
Yes, I was only joking...