There was a viral thread a month or two ago from an ex-Google Maps employee talking about how that'd never be considered, because tl;dr, doing that would be a great example of steering at scale leading to unintended consequences.
Not sure if they misunderstood that thread, or they're just wholesale riffing.
I do!
> but,
buckles up
> sadly, I would not be surprised if it were.
On my end, I'm sad people make up silly things that'd never happen, to claim that it could happen, so they can express their sadness.
There's better options!
ex. here: I'm sad because it's near 4 PM [EDIT: f***, after 4 PM!], and I got a bunch of failing integration tests to fix after rushing a feature, over a long holiday weekend, for an investor who has been AWOL for a week. When I take a step back, my harsh review of myself is I'm unconsciously getting my mind off it, because it makes me feel better because it's easy to be correct when people aren't trying to be. But really, I'm just burning time I could be using to wrap up work.
So, in other words, it's totally made up.
It's got the vibes of: "Now, we can't verify that that's true, but it certainly sounds right." - Tucker Carlson[1]
1: https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/tucker-massive-conflict-w...
You work for Google, though. Why should your word be trusted over the others'?
Why would we limit ourselves to the set of not-Googlers? That is prima facie irrational and incorrect. Best case is there's a googler out here saying it, all you'd have to do is check in a week if they still had a job.
Self-peasantization isn't a virtue