I’m sure you hurt Google in this way but I feel like I have better things to do with my time than waste a few years trying to spite an employer

What does borderline holding a gun to your head actually look like?

I've been there and it is a terrible place to be. unable to be productive where you are and simultaneously too exhausted mentally to extract yourself from it.

Sounds like you were a slacker almost certainly getting paid way above average, and got fired way later than you should have.

No sympathy.

> Basically stopped working until they fired me.

Out of interest how long does that take at google? Where i work it could take a year, and even then they might "promote you out".

It's too harmful to my mental health to do what you did. I just had to quit.

Hard to take this comment seriously since you won't even give a hint of what they did to you that was so bad. All you're telling us is you decided to stop working but still continue to collect a (presumably very very high) paycheck, as some well-deserved retribution.

What exactly is this point of this? Is it some form of virtue signaling or protest to deliberately waste both your and your employer's time? I don't think 1 person's temper tantrum, out of tens of thousands of engineers, "robs" Google of anything material.