#GoogleWalkout Dublin. pic.twitter.com/joL1uHGavJ
— Ciara O’Brien (@ciaraobrien) November 1, 2018
Hundreds of Google staff have taken part in a #GoogleWalkout in #Dublin to protest the treatment of women @PA pic.twitter.com/ExrxMF0pZ3
— Niall Carson (@niallcarsonpa) November 1, 2018
This morning.
Google employees across the world staged a one hour walkout demanding “transparency, accountability, and structural change” following claims made about Android founder, Andy Rubin.
Google workers stage walkout over company’s handling of sexual misconduct allegations (Newstalk)
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(Ciara O’Brien works for the Irish Times)
Any chance of a protest against G-entrification?
Pair of gloves, Ciara? Or just say you are at the protest.
They are droids. They probably got an email from HR telling them. Otherwise they wouldn’t bother their swiss.
PR stunt.
Oh look, its Andrew being contrary.
Oh sorry. I didn’t realise. Is that not allowed now?
I must resist the urge to depart from the groupthink
Yawn
It’s encouraging to see such mass virtue signalling brings a tear to the eye.
which one? there’s not a looker in the bunch. jesus wept.
I just need one more phrase and I’ll have a full line on Butthurt Beta Buzzword Bingo!!
SJW?
something something snowflake?
Fabulous demonstration of the traction of an “outrage” society…..
How many of those protesting know any of the facts or claims of what they are protesting about.
In my opinion it would seem that they are protesting about allegations of “he said, she said”; sure isn’t that enough of a reason to be outraged and show people you are so PC via some carefully staged picture on tweeter or snappychatty…..
“How many … know the facts”
“In my opinion it would seem”
Excellent :)
“How many of those protesting know any of the facts or claims of what they are protesting about”
Ask one of them and maybe they’ll tell you, because it’s looking fairly obvious that you don’t!
Neither do you, but in this post fact society that doesn’t matter.
I read up on it when I saw the hashtag on Twitter. It’s workers standing up for their rights. Nothing to do with “he said, she said”.
Standing up for their rights? have their rights been taken away?
Do they have to be in order to be stood up for?
they have to be under attack at least
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/stand-up-for-sth-sb
I never claimed to know the facts….. Ms Daisy Outraged Chainsaw…..just following the outrage :)
Well aren’t you just the best little sheepie!
I am indeed a good little follower….. careful with the assumed species….,I might have to just walk out of the office here for an hour with outrage at being assumed…….
Nothing to do with the protest as such, but some of the writing in that linked article in the NYT is almost impossible to read. Like this, for example:
Google gave Andy Rubin, the creator of Android mobile software, a hero’s farewell when he left the company in October 2014. “I want to wish Andy all the best with what’s next,” Larry Page, Google’s chief executive then, said in a public statement.
That then made me read the sentence a couple of times before I understood what it meant.
Just me then…?
a couple of years ago, NYT would have used “then-chief executive” but you’ll rarely find anything hyphenated in it now
revised style guide in 2016
I don’t like it. I like an aul hyphen. I love an em-dash––I think everyone does.
There’s pluses and minuses.
between you and me, i’m hazy over the difference between an em dash and an en dash. one day, i’ll look it up.
An em dash is as wide as the letter m.
An en dash is as wide as the letter n.
Even without the hyphen, just writing then chief executive makes it much easier to understand. It’s the position of the then that really bothers me.
Google Dublin is just a big property and money laundering operation these days. How many people are needed to tweak the algo? And probably all done from the states. And all the YouTube beheading videos are censored by an outsourced company.
It’s none of the above.
it’s all sales. Over 3000 people basically working in sales.
Well it is mostly sales but it is very much what Dhaughton99 described also.
*Grumble grumble* Walkout? *Mutter* Lucky they have jobs, pffft
[Insert homeless quote here]
I love the fact that they had to get their safety officers in hi vis to lead the protest.
None of these protesters seem upset with the seriousness of the matter, especially the group in the orange emergency jackets. What’sup with that?
the ones in orange hi-viz are suspected sex offenders. they’re made wear them so everyone else can see them coming..
It’s a fire drill pretending to be something else
A sexual misconduct drill. If every time there was sexual misconduct a sexual misconduct alarm sounded and the building was evacuated, that would be brilliant. Great idea, Andrew.
what about inappropriate thoughts? evacuation?
Ejaculation.
If you’re doing it right.
from your thoughts alone? you’re some man, cian (or a pubescent boy with raging hormones)
Quick access to the Broadsheet comment section where they can be vented harmlessly into the void.
Thank you Cian. Another workplace incident averted,
Day off for Rob G?
Yes, indeed I did have a day off – thank you for asking :)
I just LOVE how google uk policy forces people north-side of the Irish border to now select another search engine within Chrome, delete the google.co.uk installed without consent, re-enter google.ie then make it default.
What was that about equality?
You won’t see this reported in the Irish Times (since they are taking Google money for a digital content project):
Berlin’s cool kids make Google drop campus plan
https://www.ft.com/content/2ccd2cda-ddc3-11e8-8f50-cbae5495d92b?kbc=undefined
#TakeBackTheCity could learn from this kind of resistance.
“Having accepted that the project was no longer viable, Google has decided to hand the Kreuzberg site over to two social enterprises. What was planned as a campus will be a “House of Social Engagement” — less West Coast vibe, more utilitarian purpose with a splash of eastern bloc directive. Google will foot the bill — an arrangement no doubt in keeping with Kreuzberg’s preference for a different type of capitalism.”
That is excellent. The one thing tech giants do not like being challenged on is their social coincidence credentials.
Meanwhile on San Francisco, Proposition C.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/02/tech-industry-homelessness-prop-c-san-francisco
> Berlin’s cool kids make Google drop campus plan
the complete irony of me pasting this into google to read it for free to fact check the ‘google will foot the bill’ statement…
Guess who is pumping money into defeating Prop C:
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/10/san-francisco-prop-c-homeless-ballot-measure/573358/
Stripe, an online payment service backed by Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
$419,999 from Stripe. #Collison