If you work at a large tech company, won't you take a minute to go with me down the list of senators who just voted to confirm Kavanaugh?
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@Google is the only tech company that's a top-tier supporter of the Federalist Society. It's absolutely shameful, but unfortunately most employees don't care.pic.twitter.com/3PJNWevq1s
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Regarding the caring or not, many are desperate for jobs and feel they have no say in company policy. It’s easy to slap labels on people, but people are complicated. Especially when it comes to needing to pay rent.
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Tech employees are some of the best-paid in the country, and enjoy an incredibly competitive labor market. They have more agency than any other class of worker I can imagine
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Enough agency to rock the boat in a big way? There seems to be a lot of pressure in those companies to conform or else. The only innovation they want is in code and data-mining. I guess the other side is maybe only those who will conform and step in line are hired?
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Individual employees quitting one by one don't really matter; they're largely interchangeable cogs. The thing that matters more long-term is perception: Google will find it hard to hire people if it's seen as a shitty place to work.
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Replying to @mcmillen @cstampeen and
A bunch of employees quitting in concert over one thing will get attention though (as it did with Maven.)
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The only concession on Maven was a promise not to renew it down the line. I worry you guys played yourselves there.
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I'm not sure what better outcome one could hope for. Google engineers creating a Nerd Special Ops unit, storming the datacenters, and deleting all the copies of the code from tape?
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Getting it actually cancelled?
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At this point, Dragonfly is way more dangerous, anyway.
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