Google Fires 28 Employees Who Disrupted Workplaces to Protest Israel Cloud Contract
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/18/google-fires-28
Google Fires 28 Employees Who Disrupted Workplaces to Protest Israel Cloud Contract

Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/17/24133700/google-fires-28-employees-protest-israel-cloud-contract

Daring Fireball
@daringfireball Is there anything a company could do that you wouldn't find a way to claim was OK? The "goofy college kids" were staging a peaceful sit-in to protest something they felt their company shouldn't be doing. You should be holding them up as an example of democracy instead of celebrating their firing by a corporate behemoth who used their global head of security to make a Mafia muscle-like veiled threat against others who might dare to disagree with the company line.

@tubedogg @daringfireball

It's a perfect example of why "at will employment" was created in the first place: to give *employers* a top-level excuse to rid themselves of problems without ever having to address the underlying concern that led to the dismissals. Google never mentions the particulars of the former employees' protest, did you notice? And they won't, because AT WILL EMPLOYMENT.