Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel
https://medium.com/... X: Dr. Ks / @katejsim : Terminated worker here. Listen when employers tell you exactly who they are McCarthyism is alive and well. Look how terrified they are of worker power 🔥 Solidarity always ✊ we'll keep us safe when we fight together Noah Smith / @noahpinion : 2010s activism taught people all these catchphrases that they just intone ad infinitum even when they make no sense. “Listen when they tell you who they are” “Look how terrified they are of worker power” What are you even talking about? You yelled at your boss and got fired. [image] Ian Bremmer / @ianbremmer : @yashar right call by google. all in favor of conscientious objectors protesting against corporate behavior. they surely knew they were breaking policy to bring public attention to an issue they find important. firings here are appropriate. James Seyffart / @jseyff : @Noahpinion “You yelled at your boss and got fired.” It's kinda wild that people are trying to act like its more complicated than this. hahaha Bob Gonzales / @bobgonzalebob : If this happened at JPM or BlackRock, what would large stakeholders demand from the CEO especially post Gemini catastrophe ?🎯 H/t @Techmeme 🏅 @modestproposal1 : Googles culture of protest has infected the machines Yashar Ali / @yashar : Google has fired 28 employees who staged in sit-in which was protesting the company's $1.2 billion cloud contract with Israeli government. Nine employees were also arrested. In a note sent to employees the company says: “If you're one of the few who are tempted to think we're going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again.” LindyMan / @paulskallas : “I saw an interesting thing happen today. A Google employee was being arrested by the police,” “And rather than protesting on his day off, he decided to protest at work and get fired from his high paying job,” [image] Daniel / @growing_daniel : You'll lose your jobs and we'll all forget this happened in a few weeks, like that guy who set himself on fire for Ukraine @s_phia_ : Read the whole thread, fuck @Google, all solidarity with @NoTechApartheid ! Caroline Haskins / @car0linehaskins : Breaking: -Google just fired 28 workers who protested against its $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract with Israel on Tues. -Among the 28 are 9 workers who were arrested after sit-ins at NY + Sunnyvale offices -Most fired protesters were much less involved https://www.wired.com/... @notechapartheid : Google is terrified of us. @Google is terrified of workers calling for accountability and transparency from our bosses. These mass, illegal firings will not stop us. They only fuel the organic growth of this movement. #NimbusNine #GoogleworkersFired @unusual_whales : Nine Google, $GOOGL, workers have been arrested after staging a sit-in protest at the company's offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, including a livestreamed sit-in at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office, per CNBC. $GOOG has also fired the 28 employees. [image] @qudsnen : Dozens of Google employees have demonstrated outside the tech giant's headquarters in NYC in protest of what the workers described as the corporation's support of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people. [video] Peter Hague PhD / @peterrhague : “Escort your whole self off the premises.” Bryan Beal / @bryanrbeal : As a general rule, no CEO should allow the hiring of any employee who was arrested by law enforcement literally in the office at their previous job. This is such an obvious risk for future problems. @barbariancap : great news- shareholders are not paying you to protest in the office Kyle Becker / @kylenabecker : Instant karma: @Google employees held a sit-in protest of the Big Tech company's business with Israel. They were arrested and fired. Life comes at you fast! [video] Paul Biggar / @paulbiggar : Google mass fired employees protesting Google's part in Israel's genocide Kathleen Tyson / @kathleen_tyson_ : Google dropped 'Don't be evil' as a motto when governments became is largest client base. Kate Willett / @katewillett : It just hurts so much to see all the good people demonized and punished and all the very very bad people getting all the bad things they want. My sense that there is any justice in the world feels like a childish, naive, privileged thing to have ever had. Dr. Omar Suleiman / @omarsuleiman504 : Between the Meta leak on how Israel's AI death machine relies on WhatsApp data, to this from Google. Unbelievable. Rebecca Chan / @rebeccaychan : Fired for participating in anti-war protests. Google was Evil from the get go because it was in bed with the US Government. Alex Hanna / @alexhanna : Holy shit. Google fired 28 workers for protesting against its $1.2 billion contract with the IDF. Solidarity with these workers of conscience. https://medium.com/... @tweetsandboobs : They fucking fired them. I feel like this is a slow moving nightmare. @abierkhatib : G in @Google is for genocide @notechapartheid : BREAKING — Google fires 28 workers in indiscriminate act of mass retaliation https://medium.com/... [image] @ajmoorehealth : Gonna be one delicious lawsuit!! @inlandcaguy : Not exactly shocking. If the company doesn't align with your values and refuses to change, there are two way to protest, this, or resigning in protest. The former seems pretty self serving and it doesn't make any sense for the company to tolerate it. Aidan Kohn-Murphy / @aidankohnmurphy : We are witnessing a free speech crisis in this country. If you speak out against genocide in Gaza, you risk being fired, expelled, arrested, evicted. Companies, colleges, and governments are working together to crush any opposition to israel's mass slaughter. We cannot let them. Hardik Pandya / @hvpandya : ✅ Great move. Activism has absolutely no place in a place of Business. Alex Hanna / @alexhanna : It's not lost on me that the author of this message, Head of Global SecurityChris Rackow, was formerly a Navy SEAL, at the FBI, and a development manager at Raytheon. Military industrial complex and Big Tech going hand-in-glove quite nicely. Alex Tabarrok / @atabarrok : Good. Mission Protocol is the way to sustain cooperation across diverse people. https://marginalrevolution.com/ ... Carolyn Petit / @carolynmichelle : Did we say “Don't be evil”? Sorry, we meant “protesting evil will not be tolerated.” Racha Ghamlouch / @__racha : Remember that when @Google was founded, it's motto was “Don't be evil” I guess shareholder returns trump all principles. Alex Hanna / @alexhanna : Is it against the Google Code of Conduct to aid and abet 40,000 Palestinian deaths? @workstoppagepod : If this is how your bosses treat you, you need a union yesterday. You don't have to put up with these kinds of attacks and threats. Siqi Chen / @blader : brian armstrong walked so google could reluctantly be dragged along to be a mission focused company 4 years later @mmitchell_ai : Alienation catalyzes radicalization. Emotional beatings do not make an organization stronger. Ambereen Dadabhoy / @drdadabhoy : No tech for apartheid. Your job is not worth your would and the lives of Palestinian people. Alex Heath / @alexeheath : I'm unaware of another tech co like Google firing this many people in connection with a protest. 28 at once is a lot Julius / @leomars75 : 2020: bring your whole self to work, we are a family 2024: https://www.theverge.com/... Brad Gerstner / @altcap : “If you're one of the few who are tempted to think we're going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again.” May the spark turn into a 🔥. $GOOG finding its voice, getting fit, & re-claiming its soul will be a good thing. 🙏🏼🚀@sundarpichai [image] Nikita Bier / @nikitabier : Today I was let go from Google. I was in charge of internal protests. If anyone knows of any open roles in workplace activism, I have over 6 years of experience in agitating coworkers while on payroll. My DMs are open. Max Weinbach / @maxwinebach : Ok but seriously did they expect any other outcome Jonah Goldberg / @jonahdispatch : good. 4 stars. No notes. @jason : Google is a business If you work there, you have an obligation to your fellow shareholders, teammates, & customers You're being *highly* compensated to do a *job* The workplace is not a platform to express your political beliefs; it's a place to do your best work. Bravo! 👏 Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : How it started vs. How it's going [image] Alex Heath / @alexeheath : Google just announced internally that 28 employees have been fired in connection with sit-in office protests this week over the company's cloud contract with Israel. Follows 9 employees being arrested yesterday. Full memo to Google employees warns that “if you're one of the few... [image] Davey Alba / @daveyalba : @byJuliaLove One detail that might fly under the radar but that I find really striking: some workers involved in the protests rallied or passed out flyers outside, and never went into the office buildings. Google still identified them somehow and fired them, employees tell us. [image] @notechapartheid : BREAKING — Google fires 28 workers in indiscriminate act of mass retaliation https://medium.com/... [image] Davey Alba / @daveyalba : NEW w/ @byJuliaLove: We spoke to workers who were involved in Project Nimbus protests at several Google campuses on Tuesday. On Wednesday evening, 28 workers learned that they had been fired by the company https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image] Richard Goldberg / @rich_goldberg : Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract They badged into work but wore masks for their protest to hide their identities. Googlers' average IQ score just skyrocketed! https://nypost.com/... John Podhoretz / @jpodhoretz : I mean...sanity needs some restoring https://nypost.com/... Moustafa Bayoumi / @bayoumimoustafa : Google fires over two dozen workers who have been organizing against the company's Project Nimbus. “Google workers have the right to peacefully protest about terms and conditions of our labor,” they say. “These firings were clearly retaliatory.” https://link.medium.com/... David Ulevitch / @davidu : These people are too weak to quit, so Google should just fire them all. https://archive.is/... Michael Gartenberg / @gartenberg : “We cannot comprehend how these men are able to sleep at night..” I'm guessing they're sleeping just fine https://nypost.com/... Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : Google fired 28 employees involved in a takeover of office space for “No Tech For Apartheid.” Full statement from Google security VP Chris Rackow, via @nypost https://nypost.com/... [image] LinkedIn: Timnit Gebru : Not even 24 hrs after making history as the first company to mass fire workers for pro-Palestine protests, by summarily firing 28 people … Elliot Horowitz : This is what happens when you're entitled, lack any real education and don't want to work when you're being paid to actually work. … Animah Kosai : “This evening, Google indiscriminately fired over two dozen workers, including those among us who did not directly participate in yesterday's historic, bicoastal 10-hour sit-in protests. … Forums: Hacker News : Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract r/Bahrain : These are real heroes. Risking their jobs because they don't want to support the genocide. (keep boycotting and eventually inshallah we will see large organizations crumble and leave our country) r/WayOfTheBern : Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract / In an internal memo, Google warns that “if you're one of the few … r/conservatives : Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract r/GenZionist : Google fires 28 Pro Palestine/Hamas supporters for defacing Property r/China_irl : 谷歌開除 28名參與抗 議12億美元 以色列合 同 … r/Asmongold : Google fires 28 employees involved in protest over Israel contract r/byebyejob : Google terminates 28 employees after multi-city protests r/WorkReform : Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract r/technews : Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract r/OhNoConsequences : Google employees lock themselves in CEO's office in “protest”. Get immediately fired. r/LateStageCapitalism : Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract r/bayarea : Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract r/Conservative : Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract r/technology : Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract
Terminated worker here. Listen when employers tell you exactly who they are McCarthyism is alive and well. Look how terrified they are of worker power 🔥 Solidarity always ✊ we'll keep us safe when we fight together
2010s activism taught people all these catchphrases that they just intone ad infinitum even when they make no sense. “Listen when they tell you who they are” “Look how terrified they are of worker power” What are you even talking about? You yelled at your boss and got fired. [ima…
@yashar right call by google. all in favor of conscientious objectors protesting against corporate behavior. they surely knew they were breaking policy to bring public attention to an issue they find important. firings here are appropriate.
Google has fired 28 employees who staged in sit-in which was protesting the company's $1.2 billion cloud contract with Israeli government. Nine employees were also arrested. In a note sent to employees the company says: “If you're one of the few who are tempted to think we're g…
“I saw an interesting thing happen today. A Google employee was being arrested by the police,” “And rather than protesting on his day off, he decided to protest at work and get fired from his high paying job,” [image]
Breaking: -Google just fired 28 workers who protested against its $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract with Israel on Tues. -Among the 28 are 9 workers who were arrested after sit-ins at NY + Sunnyvale offices -Most fired protesters were much less involved https://www.wired.com/.…
Google is terrified of us. @Google is terrified of workers calling for accountability and transparency from our bosses. These mass, illegal firings will not stop us. They only fuel the organic growth of this movement. #NimbusNine #GoogleworkersFired
Nine Google, $GOOGL, workers have been arrested after staging a sit-in protest at the company's offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, including a livestreamed sit-in at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office, per CNBC. $GOOG has also fired the 28 employees. [image]
Dozens of Google employees have demonstrated outside the tech giant's headquarters in NYC in protest of what the workers described as the corporation's support of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people. [video]
As a general rule, no CEO should allow the hiring of any employee who was arrested by law enforcement literally in the office at their previous job. This is such an obvious risk for future problems.
Instant karma: @Google employees held a sit-in protest of the Big Tech company's business with Israel. They were arrested and fired. Life comes at you fast! [video]
It just hurts so much to see all the good people demonized and punished and all the very very bad people getting all the bad things they want. My sense that there is any justice in the world feels like a childish, naive, privileged thing to have ever had.
Holy shit. Google fired 28 workers for protesting against its $1.2 billion contract with the IDF. Solidarity with these workers of conscience. https://medium.com/...
Not exactly shocking. If the company doesn't align with your values and refuses to change, there are two way to protest, this, or resigning in protest. The former seems pretty self serving and it doesn't make any sense for the company to tolerate it.
We are witnessing a free speech crisis in this country. If you speak out against genocide in Gaza, you risk being fired, expelled, arrested, evicted. Companies, colleges, and governments are working together to crush any opposition to israel's mass slaughter. We cannot let them.
It's not lost on me that the author of this message, Head of Global Security Chris Rackow, was formerly a Navy SEAL, at the FBI, and a development manager at Raytheon. Military industrial complex and Big Tech going hand-in-glove quite nicely.
“If you're one of the few who are tempted to think we're going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again.” May the spark turn into a 🔥. $GOOG finding its voice, getting fit, & re-claiming its soul will be a good thing. 🙏🏼🚀@sundarpichai [image]
Today I was let go from Google. I was in charge of internal protests. If anyone knows of any open roles in workplace activism, I have over 6 years of experience in agitating coworkers while on payroll. My DMs are open.
Google is a business If you work there, you have an obligation to your fellow shareholders, teammates, & customers You're being *highly* compensated to do a *job* The workplace is not a platform to express your political beliefs; it's a place to do your best work. Bravo! 👏
Google just announced internally that 28 employees have been fired in connection with sit-in office protests this week over the company's cloud contract with Israel. Follows 9 employees being arrested yesterday. Full memo to Google employees warns that “if you're one of the few..…
@byJuliaLove One detail that might fly under the radar but that I find really striking: some workers involved in the protests rallied or passed out flyers outside, and never went into the office buildings. Google still identified them somehow and fired them, employees tell us. [i…
NEW w/ @byJuliaLove: We spoke to workers who were involved in Project Nimbus protests at several Google campuses on Tuesday. On Wednesday evening, 28 workers learned that they had been fired by the company https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract They badged into work but wore masks for their protest to hide their identities. Googlers' average IQ score just skyrocketed! https://nypost.com/...
Google fires over two dozen workers who have been organizing against the company's Project Nimbus. “Google workers have the right to peacefully protest about terms and conditions of our labor,” they say. “These firings were clearly retaliatory.” https://link.medium.com/...
Google fired 28 employees involved in a takeover of office space for “No Tech For Apartheid.” Full statement from Google security VP Chris Rackow, via @nypost https://nypost.com/... [image]
These are real heroes. Risking their jobs because they don't want to support the genocide. (keep boycotting and eventually inshallah we will see large organizations crumble and leave our country)