NEWS 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.” Googlers, You may have seen reports of protests at some of our offices yesterday. Unfortunately, a number of employees brought the event into our buildings in New York and Sunnyvale. They took over office spaces, defaced our property, and physically impeded the work of other Googlers. Their behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made coworkers feel threatened. We placed employees involved under investigation and cut their access to our systems. Those who refused to leave were arrested by law enforcement and removed from our offices. Following investigation, today we terminated the employment of twenty-eight employees found to be involved. We will continue to investigate and take action as needed. Behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it. It clearly violates multiple policies that all employees must adhere to - including our Code of Conduct and Policy on Harassment, Discrimination, Retaliation, Standards of Conduct, and Workplace Concerns. We are a place of business and every Googler is expected to read our policies and apply them to how they conduct themselves and communicate in our workplace. The overwhelming majority of our employees do the right thing. If you're one of the few who are tempted to think we're going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again. The company takes this extremely seriously, and we will continue to apply our longstanding policies to take action against disruptive behavior — up to and including termination. You should expect to hear more from leaders about standards of behavior and discourse in the workplace.
@yashar Normal people stand with resistance movements against illegal occupation and massacres
@yashar This may be the first time some of these ex-Googlers have ever faced the consequences of their actions. I have zero sympathy for them.
@yashar “Violates our policy of supporting and creating technology to aid genocide”
@yashar LOL. It’s a workplace. If you disrupt business, you get fired. It doesn’t matter what you think you are supporting. You go to work to do whatever job you were hired to do. Does nobody understand what a job is?
@yashar Good. They need to do the same to the Jew hating students in Universities
@yashar Public their names so they can't a job anywhere except at the UN!