You can look through my history and realise I've been nothing but critical at Google for their privacy and product lifecycle issues. Not sure I ever weighed in on their anti-union topics but would have been against them there too.

The point is, I'm not a Google shill.

Still, on this case, on a factual level, the only real dispute is whether this exchange:

"Do X or I quit" "Ok, your final paycheck is in the mail and IT will be in touch to organise equipment returns, effective now"

Is "accepting a resignation" or "firing". Neither side is disputing that this is how it went down.

On an ethical level, again, I'm no fan of Google but Timnit Cebru's previous public actions don't paint her in a good light while Jeff Dean's doesn't have any notable enough to sway my opinion one way or another on his ethical trustworthiness.

So based on that, I (and many others) do end up siding with Google. is that a pro-Google push? is someone co-ordinating this? If they are, they haven't contacted me. Don't mistake the fact that Google is often unpopular here with the idea that no Google action can be supported here without interference

TBH, I dont think so. I think she is toxic and ample evidence for it. Its normaly for people to side with Google here IMO. Would you want to work with a brilliant jerk?