On the flipside, in these manufacturing plants - have you ever heard any "locker room" talk that posted on a Google intranet would also face similar backlash?

Is it ok to say things, just not have them recorded and referable to be nitpicked by the entire internet?

thanks for comparing me to the greatest home run hitter of all time, you are too kind

Do people actually need it explaining that you can't just send out personal political manifestos at work and not have it be a problem?

Let the market decided! Wait no google.....

Apparently somebody was trying to tell the GroupThinkers that at Google. He was just fired.

There's nothing unique about manufacturing. In the US, if you are an at-will employee, the bosses can fire you at any time, for any reason, or for no reason at all. This includes both inappropriate communications via private company means, and any public communications... such as letters to the editor, or private postings on the interwebs/etc, of pretty much anything the bosses find rubs them the wrong way.

People get fired for this shiz all-day-every-day. This isn't news.

No. Employees have -zero- 1st-A rights in the work place, on -or- off the clock. Things have been that way since day-1... long before electricity, never mind the interwebs.

Uh, I'm the one making the points here. So... you're saying I'm missing my own damn point? Once again, that don't make a lick-o-sense.

I don't know why you deplorables are so much in denial about this shiz. Try this experiment...

Go upstairs to ground level. Offer your parent's a whole month's worth of your own allowance to pull the same kinda stunt at their IRL job, as this ex-google fool did at his IRL ex-job. Listen to what they say. Report back to us.

Unsurprisingly the right wing posters itt have no idea how actual labour law works but prefer to live in a fantasy world.

Cliff's: you have virtually no free speech at work.

who said theres free speech at work

IDK, you tell me. WTF do you deplorables have your panties all in a twist about anyways?

don't read emotion into things where there are no emotion

Spock tamer is sad google kicked manifesto-zinged stereotyping bro-dude out the door.

Lighten up Clarence, it's a figure of speech. Although one job I had did involve panties, and occasionally the (price of ) the panties would get all twisted up... so I did enjoy asking literally whenever that happened.

What are you fools carrying on about, perhaps in an emotional, perhaps in a non-emotional, manner ??

the **** you talking about m8

We're trying to figure out what the complaint is here.

Google has policies for workers, and the freedom to fire those workers. Google fired a worker.

You're supposed to just pray to the free market to punish them and wait for the righteous retribution if you don't like it.

What we can't figure out is that given none of you seem to think workers should have any right to not be fired for this, why you'd suddenly act outraged about it.

I'm talking about this ex-google fool. Why are you posting about him? What does he have to do with regarding this "virtue signalling"?

youtubes are at the forefront of political thought. peer reviewed articles are completely useless.

its pretty amazing to watch.

like, I get why ryan hollins showed up every day. he was paid some nice money to get dunked on by his betters. really have no idea why jiggy would show up to repeatedly get dunked on every day.

Where am I complaining, a google employee circulated a controversial personal memorandum which is pretty common at google and for this google fired him for wrong think, its causing deep division in google according to internal polling

for a company which heavily rely on top tier talent and independent work its bad for google in the long term. We thought Microsoft would have a thousand year reich and now google is thought of in the same category. When companys go social justice they start failing look at lol twitter, and google is going down the same path.

from my favorite movie the watchman "Without condoning... or condemning. I understand"

They fired him for violating codes of conduct he agreed to upon entering employment with them.

Good lying though! You'll be president some day if you keep it up!

yes the bundle of vague legalise that every company makes you sign that absolves the company of any responsibility and can put you in trouble for anything

and you guys are accusing me of being naive

LOL

No they did not . The CEO said why he got the boot. Look it up.

This is crazy town conspiracy theory talk. Flat out.

California is an at will state dumbass. ANYTHING the employee does can be grounds for termination. They don't need a code of conduct to back up their firing, but the employee agreed to abide by it upon employment and he didnt.

A place I once worked had in the code of conduct that we do everything we can to help the customer have a good experience. If I told a customer to **** off, there is no legal issue, but I've violated a code of conduct. Do I deserve my termination?

Forget about whether they're within their rights to dismiss the guy on account of violating some code of conduct... seeing someone post that kind of a manifesto in the work place is enough to seriously question their competency. This is the type of thing that, if you work in management, you discuss with other high level managers... not something an engineer publicly opines on in his spare time.

I agree with this, however the question is going to arrise when he brings suit on whether the firing was justified, and it's a simple yes through a number of paths and should be established early.

I both chuckle at the number of delusional redpillers that are going to donate money to this idiot and cringe at the amount of money he will make from this bull****