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Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass
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The removal of “don’t be evil” wasn’t a hint?
you could read the thing, he goes into that
Yes, and they stayed past that removal.
The claim that it was removed is false. From the Google code of conduct:
They sprinkle it around randomly in various public documents but generally refuse to actually acknowledge it officially. It used to be prominently and clearly stated at the front of that same document. Now it lives on as a footnote at the end. Overall, they are very cagey about it, which is exactly what they would be if they were in fact evil. (which they are).
So did the employees stand up, did Google become less evil on their watch? This seems even worse to me.
Didn’t they trespass employees who protested their sale of tech to assist in the genocide of Gazans?
I wonder if there were Nazis that in 1944 said something like “ok, that’s the last straw, I’m going to have to quit the Nazi party.”
I mean just compare today and it will probably give you a good idea. Many people in Maga didn’t give a damn about concentration camps, loss of our rights, the destruction of our institutions, fellow Americans being abducted/killed by ICE, the corruption, and children being raped, but the moment gas prices started going up some of them were no longer on board with this.
Likely, but it probably looked a little different than the kind of “quitting” we would picture ourselves. For example, I like to imagine that’s more or less what Hitler was thinking one particularly fateful day in 1945.
Most people can’t really face their mistakes once they have gone that deep. They may not even be willing to admit that they were actually mistakes, they’ll probably still blame others.
They didn’t lose it, they threw it away. They know where it is, they just don’t want it.
Wait, its 2026 and you think Google just lost their moral compass? Were you in a fucking coma for the last decade or so?
As a lifetime sufferer of the Microsoft way of doing business, I had so much hope when Google started its ascent back in the early 2000’s. Alas…..
Folks, let’s not rush to conclusions… Maybe this person was blinded by money and couldn’t see the evil because it was like staring into the sun. Maybe they were paid partly in stocks that only vested just now and they couldn’t find their moral compass because of greed. It might be that they were able to land a new job that pays even more and only had the financial freedom to criticize Google because of it.
I’m just saying, we shouldn’t assume that they didn’t know Google was evil the whole time. They must be intelligent or they wouldn’t have got the job.
/sarcasm (because some people are too stupid to be on the internet without an adult watching over them. i get that sarcasm is difficult to discern now that everything has become so outlandish, but you really shouldn’t be using the internet if this went over your head.)
That’s actually extremely good
Another article in English about this
https://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/post/leaving-google/