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Internal Email: Google Employees arrested and fired for protests

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

Google terminated 28 employees Wednesday, according to an internal memo viewed by CNBC, after a series of protests against Project Nimbus.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/18/google-terminates-28-employees-after-series-of-protests-read-the-memo.html

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AlphaGrindset

Series A Startup

5 months ago

Friend shared the email with me I'm glad Google is finally beginning to crack down seriously on all the woke shit that some employees do
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Hmmmmyeah

Startup

5 months ago

Yeah woke rat shit of being against genocide.
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Hmmmmyeah

Startup

5 months ago

Grow some balls and read about Lavender AI, where's daddy, project nimbus. Being braindead and doing whatever your leader says isn't any better than what nazi and other soldiers do during war crimes because their superiors said so.
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Vegetabledev22

Stealth

5 months ago

they were protesting against goggle giving AI services to Israel and were pro hamas and pro palestine. If you support people who rape and parade women and cut babies head off , i think its just action, reaction
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CommonChop20

Unemployed

5 months ago

So are you supporting these protests or against it?
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PaneerConnoisseur

Morgan Stanley

5 months ago

Pro Palestine doesn't mean Pro Hamas but Pro Israel does mean Pro Genocide and Pro Colonialism. Big Tech supporting a Genocide isn't a small issue.
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rayquaza

Cred

5 months ago

With the kind of comments on this post. This confirms that being rich or being good in coding does not guarantee basic intellect and critical thinking as to what is right and wrong. Mindless robots working for companies in these comments. These Employees should get respect for standing against their company and for what they think is wrong. But it is okay, most people part of this modern day corporate slavery would not understand.
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GreatSitar

Slice

5 months ago

Don't work for a company if you don't agree with what they are doing. Why picket their office when they are paying you to work?
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tenet

Stealth

5 months ago

Mai samjh skta hu,acha coding krke bhi bewkoof ho skte h Kai log
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SeorgeGoros

Stealth

5 months ago

Never bring your political agendas into workplace/business. On the other hand, Google is to blame too. All their stupid policies regarding diversity and inclusion invites a recipe for disaster.
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Shleemypants

IBM

5 months ago

This was different tho, it was about nimbus which was tie up between israel and google, which some wokes hijacked and turned it into a disaster. They deserve this
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SeorgeGoros

Stealth

5 months ago

I know. Everything I said is interlinked.
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Vindhyachal

Razorpay

5 months ago

I doubt any body will give these people a job again
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GreatSitar

Slice

5 months ago

If someone is paying you to do some work, don't picket their office. Isn't that Common Sense 101?
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tenet

Stealth

5 months ago

Ha bhai majdoor protest sahi h aur employee naam de dia to theek nhi
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ImpishLynx98

Oracle

5 months ago

Majdoors protest for their salaries and working conditions not for a war taking place half way across the world. Majdoor aur Google employees ko ek sentence mein kaise bol sakte ho bhai ?
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Des8

Microsoft

5 months ago

IMO: Hostile employees have no place in a company
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VengefulHub

Dunzo

5 months ago

Hata off to these Google employees for their courage. You're stupid if you think companies don't have social obligations.
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VengefulHub

Dunzo

5 months ago

Hats*
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Hmmmmyeah

Startup

5 months ago

Obligation kahe ka. Yaha ke commenters to apni mother tak bech de paise ke liye
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DrKadaknath

Stealth

5 months ago

Good grief the lack of social awareness in these comments. Technology has enabled genocide on a large scale forever - it is said that the Holocaust would have been impossible without IBM's punch card computing making records of Jews to be collected and executed efficient. Likewise the IDF fanbois here clearly fail to realise that what Isr*el is doing is dehumanising Gazans - painting even defenceless women and children as threats and wiping them mercilessly, and hiding behind "technological limits" as excuses for inaccuracy. If anything, their tech is not really inaccurate - and though classified it's pretty likely the technical gee whiz to indiscriminately exterminate a whole ethnicity is running on Google & Amazon's cloud CPUs/GPUs/TPUs. That is what these employees are fighting for, and if your politics allows you to make you comfortable with the defenceless and the innocent being wiped out in the name of your political views/religious nationalism, look at yourself deep in the mirror.
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DrKadaknath

Stealth

5 months ago

There's plenty of online reporting btw about IDF's classified use of AI models to target and kill Gazans. That technology is impossible to not have cutting edge AI computing sold on military contract by G, A and possibly other Silicon Valley giants.
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potatomato

Fintech Startup

5 months ago

Well said, US politics is greatly influenced by the apartheid, genocidal state of !srael. US State department repeats the propaganda invented by the !sreali government, and the media and tech conglomerates promote it, till it's everywhere, overshadowing the truth of what's really going on there for the last 70 years or so. And for this reason, the media, backed by the real genocidal criminals will have you believe these "protestors" standing up for big tech's enablement in this tyranny are "criminals".
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samosa

Stealth

5 months ago

explained toooo simply....seems shady and Farr from reality
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MarkZuckerberg

Meta

5 months ago

Google employees are the neo factory workers. Just need a lenin.
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potatomato

Fintech Startup

5 months ago

Well said, Mark!?
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Stealth88

SAP

5 months ago

Dude dont post internal emails as it is, you might be aware of how elon musk backtracked the person who shared internal email, same google can do, so keep yourself shielded
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BoredCorporateSlave

Gojek

5 months ago

Wow, so many people are fighting in the comments. If you think your employer is wrong, is it right to protest? 110% Is it okay to resort to vandalism? Big NO
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EvenStroke96

Shell

5 months ago

I looked at the whole issue and I think there are 2 issues here so sharing my opinion. I don't believe that Google has changed its stripes so they continue to promote woke policies that will create controversies however, it will be done slowly rather than outright wholesale changes. After all, they will continue to sign contracts with the government as they are lucrative contracts and no company ever wants to give that $$$ up. The 2nd issue is that these folks disrupted a senior executive's work by occupying his office, which becomes a political issue to address. So that's where the security angle came in where they "illegally" occupied an executive's office. It's the 2nd issue that's the problem as it creates precedent across other FAANG companies and so they want to nip it in the bud. So these people were fired for that and not for the fact they protested against Israeli actions.
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UneducatedCoder

Amazon

5 months ago

What will happen to their families ? Agree that there behaviour is against the code of conduct and they should choose other appropriate steps but management should think about their families too.
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DUMTRUCK

Deutsche Bank

5 months ago

Like Google gives a shit of 28 employees.
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TedKaczynski

Stealth

5 months ago

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/when-polaroid-workers-fought-apartheid/
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noone

Gojek

5 months ago

Go woke go broke. Activism is not applicable in work place
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