Comments on: The Demands of the Google Walkout Explained https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/11/the-demands-of-the-google-walkout-explained.html Everything to make HR better Mon, 05 Nov 2018 18:33:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: MRS_HELM https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/11/the-demands-of-the-google-walkout-explained.html#comment-212922 Mon, 05 Nov 2018 18:33:58 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5016#comment-212922 The article concludes: “Even if Google concedes to all these demands (which they won’t) the changes will be superficial. ”

It sounds like there’s nothing a big company CAN do once it reaches this point, then? Anything they do is regarded as too little too late, or just meeting demands. No way they can signal “hey, we actually DO mean it”.

]]> By: grannybunny https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/11/the-demands-of-the-google-walkout-explained.html#comment-212919 Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:08:15 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5016#comment-212919 In reply to jdgalt.

Google has a wildly diverse workforce, and is not being run by Social Justice Warriors. As has been widely reported, their employees run the gamut from radical leftists to 4Chan neo-Nazis.

]]> By: Google https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/11/the-demands-of-the-google-walkout-explained.html#comment-212917 Mon, 05 Nov 2018 06:26:56 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5016#comment-212917 In reply to Mr Ma-google.

I note that Google formally dropped “Don’t be evil” from their code of conduct in 2015, and again earlier this year.

]]> By: Mr Ma-google https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/11/the-demands-of-the-google-walkout-explained.html#comment-212916 Sun, 04 Nov 2018 20:07:04 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5016#comment-212916 In reply to Jenny Boxer.

If it was such a good deal, the Silicon Valley anti-poaching pact wouldn’t have existed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation

]]> By: Mr Ma-google https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/11/the-demands-of-the-google-walkout-explained.html#comment-212915 Sun, 04 Nov 2018 20:00:10 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5016#comment-212915 In reply to MariaRose.

Arbitration is evil. Hardly squares with the Google mantra, eh?

]]> By: jdgalt https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/11/the-demands-of-the-google-walkout-explained.html#comment-212914 Sun, 04 Nov 2018 17:59:18 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5016#comment-212914 Google management is complicit in letting Social Justice Warriors run their company. Once you start that, Social Justice replaces making money as the mission of the company, and their demands are never going to stop until they put you out of business.

]]> By: Nacho https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/11/the-demands-of-the-google-walkout-explained.html#comment-212913 Sat, 03 Nov 2018 21:09:12 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5016#comment-212913 In reply to Jenny Boxer.

Yeah, damn those entitled whiners, asking for equal pay and opportunities and publicly disclosed sexual harassment reports and to not handle harassment claims with arbitration that’s inherently biased towards Google and often requires confidentially from those involved as part of the process.

]]> By: Nacho https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/11/the-demands-of-the-google-walkout-explained.html#comment-212912 Sat, 03 Nov 2018 16:54:46 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5016#comment-212912 In reply to Eric.

Walk outs and strikes are pretty normal bargaining tactics, and have been for the past century or so. I know we’re not quite as pro-union as we used to be, but being shocked at the very idea of a walkout is a bit much

]]> By: Jenny Boxer https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/11/the-demands-of-the-google-walkout-explained.html#comment-212911 Sat, 03 Nov 2018 16:10:16 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5016#comment-212911 These employees have a good deal.
They need to remember that they are, in fact, employees and do not run the company. Should sexual harassment complaints be investigated? Absolutely. But the rest of it is hogwash. Mandating females or people of color at higher levels requires people who are actually equally qualified at those levels. The fact is that women do sacrifice their upward mobility to raise kids.

]]> By: MariaRose https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/11/the-demands-of-the-google-walkout-explained.html#comment-212910 Sat, 03 Nov 2018 16:02:45 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5016#comment-212910 When dealing with a company like Google Who is one of the top present day employers and who’s pattern of employment is copied ( work or don’t work to get paid philosophy). If history can give us a reference, then look back to how the railroad barons and the coal miner owners treated their employees whenever they requested benefits. Same idea different time period. When an employer starts to forget that their employees are people rather than the means to profit, sometimes that employer needs a wake up. Admittedly these employees do have great on job benefits, but they are extremely limited in what happens when leaving the job in the arbitration process. You would like a progressive company like Google would have better options.

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