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Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?” (www.theverge.com)

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Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?”::During a recent TGIF all-hands meeting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed what sources describe as a growing morale crisis inside the company.

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[+] [email protected] -36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Each and every one of us deserves to work for a company that cares enough about its employees that they don't need a union.

That failing, we need protection from the companies we work for and the only viable opportunity at this point are in fact unions.

Edit: Jesus should I take it back and say that everyone deserves to work for a shithole company with no union protection? I said it would be fucking nice if companies could be nice but unions are needed for protection. Either you're all corporate boot flickers or you can't read for s***.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

We should not base our decisions on the fact that a few companies are generous enough to treat their employees well. Those are exceptions, and will always be exceptions. Capitalism doesn't reward you for doing it beyond some good PR.

Sometimes, those companies aren't even as generous as it first appears, anyway.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Of course we all deserve that kind of employer! Unfortunately, the entire problem is that employers aren’t generally like that.

It’s like saying we shouldn’t need laws against murder if people would just stop the killing, or we shouldn’t have XYZ problems with youth if only the parents would do a good job, etc.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's not how relations between employers and employees work.

It's like saying you don't need a democracy if the king cares enough about his subjects.

It might work for a time, but the power balance is such that you can't rely on the goodwill of leaders alone.