the american at will system at work. I dont judge the content of the protest itself, but that you can be fired for political beliefes is crazy to me as a european
You're not allowed to bring your political beliefs at work, which IMHO is best for everyone. Keep them at home/your private time. Same for religion, sexuality, etc. Your workplace is not your market square for your personal beliefs and activism.
The publicly listed company must do what its shareholders want, it has no obligation to do what its employees want, and as long as the company doesn't break any local government laws and employment laws, then it's in the green. You disagreeing with the company's direction is your own matter to deal with, as in, you are free to walk since the company isn't forcing you to work there against your will.
You have no idea what authoritarianism actually means.
Even if you dont talk about politics you are subject to the forces of it.
I realize you don't want to encourage people discussing politics in the workspace and it being 100% ineffective would improve your arguments.
And no, not all of those discussions end with "keep politics out of f work" and instead focus on how googlers are or arent complicit in powering genocide in t he e project presentation interrupted.
Yes, and Googlers who are against that can put a stop that by quitting their jobs in protest. You can't go around and publicly slander your company calling them genocidal, while still being employed there, just because they don't do what you'd want them to do, without expecting repercussions when you don't follow your contractual agreement.
You are free to do that after you resign and no longer have the responsibility to follow your contract, which probably stated your job is to be a coding cog, not a PR public speaker for the company policies.
Even in Europe(the German speaking countries), if you publicly accuse your employer of causing genocide, you'd better bring some hard proof to back that up(other than your emotional feelings), otherwise you can not only get fired on the spot but also sued for libel/slander and have to pay defamation damages.
Regulatory capture and monopoly are both things shareholders might want but are bad for society.
‘Just doing your job’ doesn’t cut it, we’re are part of a community and should feel a civic duty. That’s what i mean
Everybody does bring their political beliefs to work, and it manifests in things like how they interact with their colleagues and customers.
Choosing whether or not to provide equal benefits to same-sex couples is a political decision. Providing goods or services to an authoritarian regime is a political act. Your maternity policy is a political act. Even your dress code can be a political act.
What you really mean is that people shouldn’t be bringing to work views outside of a small range you deem uncontroversial.
Not it doesn't. How people interact with others at work is a function of their personality and professionalism at their job, not a function of their political color.
If someone at work is being a dick, it only shows that he's a dick, but political junkies will try to justify that it must be because he's of the opposite political beliefs they have, because in their head "all those people behave like that".
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This is even brought up in the second bullet of the linked page.
> The worker stood and shouted during a presentation by Google Israel's managing director.
If you have an issue with being protested, maybe don't directly assist the world's most live-streamed set of daily atrocities.
Nah this person wasn’t working productively any more, as far as I can tell. Worse, they were reducing productivity of others. Possibly making an unsafe work environment.
It’s not about being sensitive or even agreeing. It’s about making product. If we were chopping wood and someone stopped chopping to complain about inner city transit systems. You’d fire them.
If they kept chopping wood it would be fine though.
Why do they not keep chopping wood in your example?
Hecklers only cause is heckling.
Even then, Nazi salute is being used on my country's parties and everyone shrugs.
You have XE protestors shutting down infrastructure. You have Pro-Palestinian/Pro-Hamas marchers chanting extremist stuff like "From London to Gaza, Victory to the intifada", "We will honour all our martyrs", "Praise the martyrs" and "From the river to the sea".
The whole hate speech/free speech thing, and at what point is calling for and glorifying terrorism, and do we as a society allow that?
It's not helped by our incompetent and corrupt government whose primary base is the worst stereotype little Englander. Our police whose handling of protestors ranges from ineffective to Orwellian.
I'm generally pro-Civ-Lib and hands-off, but at this point, it's difficult.
We need to have an adult conversation as a country about where we draw lines, lest we allow extremism to fester or allow authoritarianism to raise its ugly head.
But we're utterly incapable of having an adult conversation about anything. This may change after the general election later in the year, but... It's a hope rather than a certainty.
Doesn't mean I agree with the law, but at least its more fair
It would be a different matter if they were simply attending pro-Palestine protests on their own time.
Uh ... since when?
Some European states also ban left-wing political symbols: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bans_on_communist_symbols
Many of us Americans do as well, but America's rich love it.