Sounds like pre-unionizing to me. Wonder where this will lead to...
>You see, when educated people with excellent credentials band together to advance their collective interest, it’s all part of serving the public good by ensuring a high quality of service, establishing fair working conditions, and giving merit its due. That’s why we do it through “associations,” and with the assistance of fellow professionals wearing white shoes. When working-class people do it—through unions—it’s a violation of the sacred principles of the free market.
Don't know what the Google management is thinking at this point in time. But I'm damn sure, unless you are making it rain hundreds of millions in dollars, and you are a part of these pre-unionizing exercises- You are very likely getting marked up as a trouble maker, and may be already a part of purge lists.
This is also a small industry. You don't want your name to smeared as a person who comes with a high trouble/contribution ratio. Nobody wants to hire people to do their jobs, and get employees running their part time political projects with their fellow colleagues in paid office time, on office issues.
There are also a huge range legal landmines you are likely to step over even without active knowledge that you are.
This is also extremely illegal in the EU. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36242312
I'll just say you weren't a good fit for the "company culture" and that'll be that.
What you are suggesting is called "blacklisting." You may be interested to learn that in many states it is illegal behavior itself. See https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/employee-....
> Nobody wants to hire people to do their jobs, and get employees running their part time political projects with their fellow colleagues in paid office time, on office issues.
Union organizing is not a "part time political project," it is a legally protected right. See https://www.nlrb.gov/rights-we-protect/whats-law/employees/i....
What you are saying is true, but its always impossible to establish intentions. And either way you have to sue. All the best ever getting a job if you are known to do legal fights against prospective employers.
>>Union organizing is not a "part time political project," it is a legally protected right.
One believes in these things only until they become managers themselves. And every one aspires to be one in this industry.
The law isn't Tinker Bell, it doesn't require you to believe in it to exist.
> And every one aspires to be one in this industry.
It's difficult to think of anything sadder than a person who assents to his own exploitation in the hopes that maybe, someday, he will get to exploit someone else.
I also wish you the very best with your activism.
Oh god no, not even close to everyone in this industry aspires to be a manager.
Personally, even if I end up becoming a manager I don't think my opinion on unions will change. Ten years ago people told me that my opinion on taxes would change once I made more money too and if anything I support higher taxes even more now.
This is so far from the truth that I don't know how to make sense of your claim. Either you are living in a bubble or in a place which provides no career path to engineers (thus forcing them to want to be managers) or you are interpreting the data you are faced with incorrectly.
There are so many people in this industry who never want to be a manager that this claim of yours is frankly absurd!
Sadly, impossible to prove.
I can choose to not hire for you a plethora of reasons. I can just give you a few bullshit questions that you can't answer correctly and use that as an excuse.
If only the fact that it's illegal actually stopped it from happening.
And even if this were true, some things are worth taking risks over.
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