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Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract (www.theverge.com)
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[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 84 points 7 months ago

From the Blind discussion

This idiotic behavior is making me feel ashamed for being a lefty 😭

On a positive note, it’s helping me feel more empathy for conservatives & people frustrated with wokeness

Just remember. Not all leftists are pro jihad nutjobs

100% agree.

Scratch a liberal, etc.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 61 points 7 months ago

I'm as Left as they come but I feel more empathy for fascists and racists.

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 24 points 7 months ago

Holy shit they made Facebook exclusively for tech workers? Someone needs to be added to the list

[-] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

leftism is when you kill brown people and the more brown people you kill etc

[-] whatup@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

As a fellow leftie, [insert horrifically racist/transphobic/genocidal comment here]. Ya know, cause true leftists are [insert description of a conservative/liberal].

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

Good lord. Man, I really need to finish my De-Googling process.

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago

"I don't like the aesthetic of conservatives but I agree with them on literally everything"

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 61 points 7 months ago

There was a series of completely non-threatening sit-ins (like a couple hours, out of the way of any work) like five years ago, and Google immediately shat itself and started making concessions before any demands were even made. Interesting to see the difference.

[-] AcidLeaves@hexbear.net 39 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

tech labor market right now is the weakest it has been since dotcom bubble (other than covid which recovered after literally a few months), even worse than the great financial crisis since that didn't really hit tech, while 5 years ago was the strongest it has been in decades

[-] PoisonIvy@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

By and large, tech workers specifically are some of the least amenable to class consciousness I have ever seen- believe me, I've tried. We gave up the single largest leverage white collar labor has had in living memory in order to...sit in an office? Waste hours a day on a commute? They had it all; workers demanded to be remote, until apparently they remembered they had wives and kids they hate and now we need to make up bogeymen about how sitting at home for 8 hours a day makes you fat and unhealthy and unattractive while doing just that at the office magically doesn't (shocker!). I will never get it, and I will never forgive them for just rolling over. The owning class is responding as expected- ruthlessly and with the knowledge that they can get away with anything, because they can.

[-] SugandeseDelegation@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

By and large, tech workers specifically are some of the least amenable to class consciousness I have ever seen- believe me, I’ve tried.

Same here. I swear, working in tech as a communist will drive you insane sooner or later. All the colleagues I've worked with range from grindset hustlers, "work hard" types who gladly chug the corporate koolaid, liberals who conscientiously read mainstream media to "stay informed and not fall for propaganda" i.e. towing the US line on Ukraine, Palestine, China etc - all the way to manosphere chuds, anti-communists and ancap cryptobros and, presumably, crypto-fascists.

I've tried spreading a little class consciousness here and there, but it's hard and if you use a word that sounds just slightly socialist, the discussion is over most of the times.

The incentives to radicalize are just not there. The pay is relatively good, KPIs and decent raises and title changes give you the impression of meritocracy, the job tends to be mentally draining, and often tech workers are passionate about tech and have it as a hobby in their free time. So this usually means less paying attention to current events beyond the easily accessible mainstream news (because it's easier to stay in the same tech context in your spare time, or just chill), and more belief that the system is working and that the poors can be disregarded because it's their failure, not a systemic issue.

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago

By and large, tech workers specifically are some of the least amenable to class consciousness I have ever seen

This thread is about a bunch of them getting fired from great jobs over anti-imperialism. That's a lot more of a commitment than most people have made (probably even most here).

I will never forgive them for just rolling over.

This just isn't accurate. Tons of people insisted on keeping WFH, changed jobs over it, turned down higher pay to keep it, etc., and the companies that really pushed people back to the office had to use all sorts of carrots and sticks to make it happen.

[-] PoisonIvy@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I have been working in this field for almost two decades- I know what they're like, and the ones doing the sit-in are a fraction of a fraction.

How many more are just like this? Or worse? (hint: it's a lot!) https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/4083280

The bosses are correcting for '20-'21, and they are having their way with a crowd of yes-men all the way down. That is the reality. Tech workers will not unionize- that is a tree I've been barking up for just as long as I've been in this industry and of something like five jobs I've had in that time none of them wanted it. There is no solidarity in this income bracket.

and the companies that really pushed people back to the office had to use all sorts of carrots and sticks to make it happen.

Only one of the big 5 does it anymore, last I checked, and it was hybrid- since 2022 they've been pushing RTO, and now (as of early last year at the very latest) they have been requiring full time in-office participation again. The rest of the industry follows whatever they do. Very few people had or have the luxury of "just switching" to remote work when the big players decide non-negotiable RTO and the smaller ones continue to follow. Despite the popular narrative, frequent job hopping is not actually that easy unless you subscribe to nepotism or chronic schmoozing; "the hustle" is not very radical, as it turns out. You have a romanticized view of what happens at the ground level of tech and the type of people working there, and it isn't true.

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago

the ones doing the sit-in are a fraction of a fraction.

It's that way in most industries. Leftists, especially ones willing to get fired over anti-imperialism, are rare everywhere in the U.S.

I broadly agree there's less potential for radicalization in the tech sector compared to many industries, it just might not be as comparatively bad as it looks, because it's not great most places.

they've been pushing RTO, and now (as of early last year at the very latest) they have been requiring full time in-office participation again

This is what I'm saying -- people didn't roll over, they had to be forced back to the office. You still have people clinging to whatever WFH time they have left.

[-] PoisonIvy@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 7 months ago

people didn’t roll over, they had to be forced back to the office.

Over these last four years I saw more “we should be given the choice” and “if you work from home efficiently that’s fine but I don’t” from my colleagues & peers than making remote-only the red line it should have been for all of us. There is no choice if the line is crossed even once. The owning class didn’t have to force anything, not really. There were enough “compradors” holding the door open for them when they decided they’d played the game long enough. That’s what I mean by “rolling over”; that should not have been allowed to happen, but it was.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 37 points 7 months ago

~~don't~~ be evil

[-] Antiwork@hexbear.net 33 points 7 months ago

See evil do evil be evil

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 31 points 7 months ago

"Don't be evil"

"Ok you can be a little evil, as a treat."

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 30 points 7 months ago

The next move should be moving to Cuba and helping them launch their own internet infrastructure

[-] hungrybread@hexbear.net 1 points 7 months ago

If that was on the table I'd be there in a heartbeat

[-] POKEMONGOTOTHEGULAG@hexbear.net 29 points 7 months ago

Yeah, Google is not going to cancel a 1.2B contract over some petty ethical concerns

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

Come along way from "Do no evil." I see.

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago

they ditched that years ago

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