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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: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 18 2021, @05:46AM (4 children)
if the vaccines are so safe, why did the manufacturers demand (and get) total legal immunity from any legal liability?
money talks and bullshit walks.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 18 2021, @07:07AM (1 child)
Because Joe Biden want to eat babies and institute a radical feminist agenda - happy now?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @02:42AM
He's a race traitor of the highest order, and complete tool of the International TalmudicJew.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @01:15AM (1 child)
OK, I'm assuming that you're asking a genuine question, and I'll try to give you a meaningful response.
Let's say you're in the ... oh, I don't know. Let's say the wine business. You make big ol' barrels of wine, day in and day out, turning grapes into pain-go-bye-bye-juice. But there's a process; you don't just stomp them into barrels and then pour and serve a year later. No, you check your contaminants, you clean your equipment, you use proven yeast, you get the result lab-tested, all that good stuff.
That's our steady state. You're a wine maker.
Then one fine day a harried-looking guy comes from the government saying that they need boatloads of mead to quell a viking invasion, and they need it yesterday, so pleasepleasePLEASE make a fuckton of mead, and they'll buy it all, guaranteed.
Viking invasion? That sounds serious! You're down to help, but there's a little hitch: you haven't done mead before. You can do a wicked chenin blanc, but mead is a little outside your experience, you'll need to (at least) run a test batch, and check that things will work properly. In fact, you may need to check whether there are any special flavour elements these viking badasses will need to really quell their appetite for slaughter, not to mention rape and slave-taking.
The government guy says No time for that! Do it! Do all the things, just please do it now! They'll give it a quick taste to check and then serve!
You say OK, but if you're in such a hurry, and people start feasting with it and getting sick, you'd be on the hook. That's part of this whole winery thing, and you don't want to poison people. You understand viking raids are pretty bad, so maybe this is worth the risk, but before you put so much as an ounce of honey in a barrel you want indemnity because ... well, risk.
The government dude says sure. If that's what it'll take, you got it. Immunity. We all trust that we're all working in good faith to fix a huge problem, so you're doing your best.
You make the mead, the vikings are pacified, but a few people get sick or die in vehicle accidents. Outrage! How dare you! You exploitative monster! How could you demand immunity? You knew it was poison! How ... how DARE you?
... and here we are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 19 2021, @06:58AM
St Greta... is that you?