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1. charli+Cf[view] [source] 2019-07-16 14:40:08
>>tech-h+(OP)
I don't really understand why it's surprising to anyone that they would face "internal retaliation" after exposing their employer as evil and boycott worthy to the entire world. By publicizing it to the degree that they did and attaching their name to it, they were putting their interests over the company. If my company started doing business practices that I didn't approve of, I would try my hardest to change the direction from the inside out or I would leave and then criticize. I don't understand the desire to stay with a company and accept paychecks while simultaneously publicly denouncing and leading protests against them.
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2. KirinD+zh[view] [source] 2019-07-16 14:51:11
>>charli+Cf
It's literally illegal. There are laws against retaliation against whistleblowers. That is why it is surprising.

> I don't understand the desire to stay with a company and accept paychecks while simultaneously publicly denouncing and leading protests against them.

Because you don't want to see the thing you worked so hard to build misused to build killer robots and "war minds"? Seems reasonable to me. Google's got a different mission and sometimes the leadership forgets it, and needs to be reminded.

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3. kpU8ef+fi[view] [source] 2019-07-16 14:56:05
>>KirinD+zh
What laws? Source for that please.
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4. KirinD+Km[view] [source] 2019-07-16 15:23:10
>>kpU8ef+fi
Are you perhaps forgetting that this person was involved in organizing the women's march? Do I actually need to find a source for US law suggesting that retaliation against women reporting sexism is in fact illegal?

This is basic compliance training for any US employment, and the EU has similar laws. Where do you live and work that you don't know this?

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5. quibbl+Wr[view] [source] 2019-07-16 15:57:06
>>KirinD+Km
Organizing the women's march is like reporting sexism? I don't think so.
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