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2019-08-25 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Google tells workers to avoid arguing politics in house

[DAWN] Google on Friday told employees to focus on work instead of heated debates about politics with colleagues at the internet company, which has long been known for encouraging people to speak their minds.

Updated workplace guidelines for "Googlers" called on them to be responsible, helpful, and thoughtful during exchanges on internal message boards or other conversation forums.

"While sharing information and ideas with colleagues helps build community, disrupting the workday to have a raging debate over politics or the latest news story does not," the updated guidelines stated.

"Our primary responsibility is to do the work we've each been hired to do, not to spend working time on debates about non-work topics."

The updated guidelines pointed out that comments made internally by Google employees, no matter the intent, could go public and be wrongly attributed to the company, leading to mistaken impressions.

Posted by Fred 2019-08-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 Yet more evidence that GOOG is a fat happy monopoly, abusing its market power.
Any company that's facing real competition will have employees focused on their work, not wasting time arguing about politics.
Most people at Google today are engaged in nothing more than greasing the wheels of a government-enabled steamroller.

Posted by Lex 2019-08-25 00:28|| 2019-08-25 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Google is sounding more and more like a cult than a business... just saying.

Posted by magpie 2019-08-25 03:59|| 2019-08-25 03:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Google tells workers to avoid arguing politics in house

Unfortunately, for the Left that's like giving up life itself. When you make everything political (and racists) you just can't avoid it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-08-25 07:45|| 2019-08-25 07:45|| Front Page Top

#4 What a strange idea - that you should go to work to work.

Posted by SteveS 2019-08-25 12:03|| 2019-08-25 12:03|| Front Page Top

#5 If they're all leftists, what is there to argue about? Who hates Trump more? How to have free everything and get the "rich" to pay for it?

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2019-08-25 13:00|| 2019-08-25 13:00|| Front Page Top

#6 "No Discussion! No Arguments! You *WILL* follow the Google Groupthink!"

Posted by CrazyFool 2019-08-25 13:02|| 2019-08-25 13:02|| Front Page Top

#7 How can there be argument when everyone agrees?

Posted by gorb 2019-08-25 13:14|| 2019-08-25 13:14|| Front Page Top

#8 IOW: If you're a conservative and you wanna keep working here, just do as you're told and keep your mouth shut.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-08-25 14:25|| 2019-08-25 14:25|| Front Page Top

#9 It saves then from having to weasel a way to get rid of them.

Posted by gorb 2019-08-25 15:24|| 2019-08-25 15:24|| Front Page Top

#10 If they're all leftists, what is there to argue about?

Trotsky could not be reached for comment.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-08-25 16:11|| 2019-08-25 16:11|| Front Page Top

#11 "No one will profess any ideology or political doctrine until we're being investigated. Any activism has to be done in code. Those who can't help but wear their colors to work, will be fired ! Let's see which way the wind blows til 2020."

Posted by Dron66046 2019-08-25 16:18|| 2019-08-25 16:18|| Front Page Top

#12 "Ixnay on the oliticspay until eathay is ffoay!"

If they're all leftists, what is there to argue about?

Mao vs Stalin, Pol Pot vs the Kims, Los Bros Castro vs Los Bros Ortega.

Sooo many topics to fill a day between manipulating, censoring and deplatforming.

Posted by charger 2019-08-25 18:35|| 2019-08-25 18:35|| Front Page Top

#13 When are we finally going to tell it like it is: Google is evil. And we need to shun them. Using other platforms is not easy, but those on the right need to quit supporting them.

Posted by anymouse 2019-08-25 20:48|| 2019-08-25 20:48|| Front Page Top

#14 It was a huge mistake to pretend that a tech company "platform" is not or cannot also be a publisher.

I.e. a shaper of opinion, a political actor.

A member of the Fourth Estate that needs to be watched and criticized and regulated if we are to preserve the integrity of our public discourse and our free political institutions.

What a huge mess was created when Congress opted for the idiot-libertarians' wet dream of an anything-goes, Wild West internet.

Posted by Lex 2019-08-25 21:17|| 2019-08-25 21:17|| Front Page Top

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