In 6th grade I read a book about how Larry & Sergey created Google. I knew it was where I wanted to work one day. I dropped out at 16, by 19 I became (I think!) the youngest security engineer ever hired. I care deeply about Google users, I loved writing code to keep them safe.
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This month should've been a big one for me: I was promoted by Google about a month ago and was hoping to celebrate over the holidays. My performance was judged to be "superb," in the top 2% of Google workers. Instead, I got fired. I'm spending the holidays looking for jobs.
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Hours after pushing the notification live they took my devices & put me on administrative leave. They then ‘investigated me’ and on Friday, after three weeks on admin leave, fired me for a policy they couldn’t explain. Here's pic of the popup.pic.twitter.com/Ltfef8dSc0
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I was involved with past organizing at Google. This includes protesting Google developing drones for the military and speaking out against Google’s work for CBP —tech is not amoral.
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As tech workers we must take responsibility over the products we build. We cannot let upper management dictate how we use our labor. Google would be a far better firm—smarter and more ethical—if workers had more control over what they create. That's what I was fighting for.
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And I don’t plan to stop fighting. With help from
@cwaunion my lawyer filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge yesterday to the@NLRB. Here it is.pic.twitter.com/3xaPVS4qSi
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Google claims to value transparency. It's billed itself as a moral, open company since the beginning, but recent actions have eroded this culture. When this was pointed out to management, it doubled down and retaliated against organizers.
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Everybody talks about how people died for our right to vote, but a lot of people also died for our right to be in a Union too. Yet somehow we seem to have ceded much of that right without a real struggle. And then we bemoan wealth inequality.
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Hell. People died to get the 5 day work week, 8 hr day, COFFEE BREAKS for f**k sake!Anyone who has ever been paid time & a half for overtime can thank unions. Anyone who’s worked it at straight pay has been robbed (it’s called wage theft). The Labour Code only works if protected
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you should have read the documents you signed when you were hired
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I did read those same documents. They didn't mention that you get fired for exercising rights granted by federal law.
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Only speaking on behalf of myself