London Google Workers Stage Walkout Protest Over Mass Layoffs, Ask Company Not to be Evil

Yeah, good luck asking Google not to be evil.

That’s like asking Sanna Marin to not snort coke and suck dick while provoking wars with heterosexual Christian countries.

Google has aged about as well as Sanna, frankly.

I remember when I was a teenager, I would stay up at night reading about the latest Google developments and testing their awesome products. Nowadays, seeing Google’s name on a product is an absolute reason to totally avoid it.

This is similar to the way men used to want to put their dicks on Sanna Marin’s face and now they try to escape out the back exit when they see her brutal visage darken the door.

Reuters:

Hundreds of Google employees staged a walkout at the company’s London offices on Tuesday, following a dispute over layoffs.

In January, Google’s parent company Alphabet announced it was laying off 12,000 employees worldwide, equivalent to 6% of its global workforce.

The move came amid a wave of job cuts across corporate America, particularly in the tech sector, which has so far seen companies shed more than 290,000 workers since the start of the year, according to tracking site Layoffs.fyi.

Trade union Unite, which counts hundreds of Google’s UK employees among its members, said the company had ignored concerns put forward by employees.

Our members are clear: Google needs to listen to its own advice of not being evil,” said Unite regional officer Matt Whaley.

“They and Unite will not back down until Google allows workers full union representation, engages properly with the consultation process and treats its staff with the respect and dignity they deserve.”

Yeah, okay, commie.

As I’ve said: I do not support Google at all.

But are they supposed to keep paying employees that aren’t making them money?

It doesn’t even make sense to protest a company on this basis. You can protest the government for not having stronger worker protection laws, but the company has to do what is in their financial interests. That’s the way business works.

Google does a lot of evil, but responding to a collapsing economy with layoffs is not one of those things.