Except it wasn’t a personal agenda. It was protected labor organizing by law.

American corporations hate their employees?

I mean, I know what I’ve read and I know what her co-workers have said. This ain’t rocket science.

*It should be Golem.  The creature created from clay which the creator loses control of and goes on a rampage destroying and killing.  Old jewish folklore.

“And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!”

Be Evil-er.

This. This is what it’s all about. Silicon Valley companies are notoriously libertarian, and they will fight the dirty fight to keep it that way.

Silicon Valley left Utopia a long time ago. These young people have no understanding of the violent history of union organizing in the USA. When employees start organizing and opposing corporate management, employers have always been willing to take the gloves off and do a little bare-knuckle boxing.

The Principle of Least Interest, really. Whoever is coldest and cares least in a relationship has all the power. CEOs trend unempathetic because if they don’t care about their workers, said workers are still going to stick around because they need the work, and then the company will make more money because it doesn’t…

I get that. But I also get people like Spiers, who are doing work they love/want to do/enjoy doing, and it’s really tough for me to argue against their desires to better the workplace.

She’s 19 and a security engineer for Google?  

I got recruited by Google about 4 years ago to go be a management employee in their Boulder, CO office. I went through a month’s worth of phone interviews, was told that they wanted me to fly there for a F2F. The next day, they said “oops, sorry, that position is no longer there - it’s now in San Francisco” i said, “um…

I feel like companies very publicly going to war against their workforces has been one of the main themes of 2019.

Google propaganda at it's finest. Hope they paid you well.

The founders walked away because they know they created a golum.  What started as a project at MIT turned into a global sensation and they wanted to create a moral company.  But it has turned into a very evil company, but what company isn’t really.  So they just walked away, and the new CEO is more than happy to put…

the tolerant left

maybe you should try reading the article again

As the article says she got approval and her code was reviewed before it was pushed.

Don’t be evil is now just evil.