Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract
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The employees were protesting against “Project Nimbus.”

Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday.

In a memo sent to all employees on Wednesday, Chris Rackow, Google’s head of global security, said that “behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it.”

He also warned that the company would take more action if needed: “The overwhelming majority of our employees do the right thing. If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again. The company takes this extremely seriously, and we will continue to apply our longstanding policies to take action against disruptive behavior — up to and including termination.”

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    72·
    7 months ago

    The Proton suite of apps have 1:1 replacements for the entire Gsuite

    That’s just not true, they don’t have office applications or video chat. I wish they did though. Also, their storage is pretty expensive.

    Their email is pretty good though, and they have a decent VPN service as well.

    • Gluten6970@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      they don’t have office applications or video chat

      Oh right, true. I forget Google has those.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        Google Sheets is the last thing really holding my back from abandoning Google. It’s just so convenient, and I’m more comfortable with it than LibreOffice. I like that I can edit things on my phone, which I haven’t found an alternative for.