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Google engineer who criticized company in viral comics on why he finally quit:
Former Google engineer Manu Cornet describes his time at Google in two phases. First, there were "glitches in wonderland." Then, there was "disillusionment."
Those two descriptions are actually the sub-headings for Cornet's two volumes of comics he has published about his former employer, which he called Goomics. Though Cornet was an engineer, he also spent 11 of his 14 years at Google drawing comics about employees, quirks, culture, and, eventually, larger societal and ethical issues facing the company and its workers. Some of those topics included Google contracts with government agencies like ICE, making a search engine for China's government that complies with censorship laws, and more.
Chronicling those issues allowed Cornet to reflect on his place at Google, and prompted him to make a change. Cornet recently quit, and has taken a new job (at Twitter, a company with whom he says he has fewer ethical qualms). He is now the latest big tech employee — including employees at Facebook and Amazon — to publicly resign from their positions in protest of the company's overall behavior.
"As the years passed by there were more and more things to have ethical qualms about that the company was doing at a higher level," Cornet said. "I had to look at the bigger picture and think that maybe I would be better elsewhere."
[...] Unfortunately, Cornet found plenty of fodder for less-buoying Goomics. What infuriates him most — and provides frequent inspiration for his comics — is what he views as hypocrisy at the company.
"The mismatch between what they say and what they really do is growing," Cornet said. "The thicker the gap is, the easier it is to point out that hypocrisy."
That extended to both major news items at the executive level, and changes within the company that affected employees. Google made headlines in 2019 for banning political discussion on employee message boards. But Cornet described one of their internal mottos as "bring your whole self to work." He sees a gap between messaging the company uses to attract employees, and the needs of shareholders.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 18 2021, @01:56AM (4 children)
You're not kidding. I'm actually interviewing for other jobs after having seen some truly nightmarish and evil management and HR decisions at the hospital I'm at now--and it's not even one of the big ones! I may very well go back to outpatient and just accept lower pay for a work environment that does make my conscience scream so hard and a job so easy I could do it in my sleep.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 18 2021, @02:31AM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @02:14AM
oh yeah right. it's because they're just trying to do god's work. kind of like the catholic priests, huh?
No, the reason it's so fucked up is because there's a lot of money involved and once people get paid way more than they are worth they start thinking it's because they are so fucking smart.
no, you're just a dumb whore who did what they were told their whole life, could memorize your drug supplier's sales pitch or how to studiously not prevent diseases that are easily preventable, cut out any body part that causes trouble after years of abuse/neglect or poison people to death while making them rack up enormous debt to steal their life savings. You have no fucking integrity and you are not an authority figure, you dirty skanks.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 18 2021, @06:57AM (1 child)
Azuma, you can remove the glass shards from my shattering ring-piece after I try to push a lightbulb in there - again - any time.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 18 2021, @07:27PM
Given that you constantly talk out your ass, I'd recommend shoving a bunch more light bulbs up there and then doing a hip-drop onto a concrete sidewalk from 2 stories up. It's a matter of public health (other peoples'). Make sure they're CFLs too; the libs don't want you to know that mercury cures Covid.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...