ShoeMoney Sues Google Employee For AdWords Violations
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There are tens of thousands of Google employees who have access to data which is commercially sensitive and worth, literally, millions. (To say nothing of how many search engineers could transfer a million dollars with a single hand-edit to "remove web-spam" on a single keyword.) Most of them are AdWords account reps, Google's dirty little secret: we'll pay you $40,000 to about one step above a call center monkey intellectually, you have no opportunity for advancement, and the work is soul-suckingly boring next to the Wow I Get To Work At Google thoughts that brought you here.
(Disclosure: I was once a call-center monkey, though not at Google.)
In banking or finance, there would be an entire department tasked with nothing but playing Big Brother over these employees. Failure to aggressively monitor for non-compliance would result in regulatory slap-down.
Does Google strike you as the kind of place where they monitor every entry made by employees and have an actual human perform random audits just to be sure?
This resembles what you think goes on inside Google? In what way, pray tell?
Just because it doesn't have the kind of rules around it that you describe doesn't mean it's not analogous. In fact, I thought that analogy and the galling lack of such oversight was your original point.
That should read...
the Google employee in question should be fired, out of a cannon, into the sun.
If this story turns out to be true, I think this might not bode well for Google, given their current position with antitrust and their dominating (monopoly?) position in online advertising.