PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 5 months ago
If Palestine were using Google Cloud for AI applications like identifying and murdering Israelis, then Pichai would also be justified in telling staffers to sit down, stfu, and get back to work?
I just want to make sure we’re not engaged in identity politics here.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yes.
As someone who’s worked in the corporate world for 30+ years, politics is not tolerated.
If you’re an employee who regularly talks politics, you’ll find yourself not invited to projects, and slowly pushed to the side, as your peer reviews will show communication issues.
If you’re a contractor, you won’t be renewed at contract time.
I’ve seen both of these happen many times.
The workplace is for work, for getting things done. Frankly, most of us don’t have time for this idle chit-chat bs, we’re too busy trying to complete the endless stream of work that needs doing. And what room I have for chat, the last thing I want to talk about is politics - it’s always divisive, and teams need the opposite if that - to build better relationships.
Today I’ll actually leave a room if anyone talks politics. I want no part of that nonsense.
Here’s the heart of the issue: If you lack the sense to know when and where to discuss something like this, what other social skill/communication issues do you have? You’re clearly not someone to be trusted.
You’re a risk. No one wants a risk on their team.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
In a well run company it isn’t. The ceo I work for doesn’t talk politics. Everyone assumes he’s a democrat but I would libertarian based on a few slips.
For the most part he avoids politics. Either way you are making half the people mad and potential alienating half your customers.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Exactly.
Poor leadership permits political talk. Or any talk that is divisive or off-topic.
Talking about your weekend escapades is also frowned upon, for the same reasons - they’re both juvenile, ego-centric, and off topic.
No professional wants to hear about how drunk you got and who you screwed.
This is like business 101 stuff.
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Trigger Warning: Communism
See, this whole conversation is why Marx’s theory of alienation is a thing. It assumes that the employees are at work purely for the sake of working, as if employees consent to how other’s use the product of their work by virtue of their employment. But the relationship between what a worker does and what a company does with it is important. For those of that aren’t genocide supporters and can’t square the circle by abstracting our work from those that use it for murdering other people, talking about it challenges the underlying justification for permitting it in the first place. Like yeah, Google is invested in information technology and all that, but why does that necessarily mean they must have a relationship with Israel to more effectively target Palestinians? Not being allowed to talk about that is quintessential alienation in the Marxian sense.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
This is why the younger generation struggles at work. They don’t get its work. It’s not play time while getting paid.