Like I don't think it makes sense to do these protests at work. I get there are cases where your employer is doing something immoral. But maybe just switch jobs if you are that upset about it?
Are you thinking of this?
Like I don't think it makes sense to do these protests at work. I get there are cases where your employer is doing something immoral (like assisting a genocide). But maybe just switch jobs if you are that upset about it [the extermination]?"
It will be interesting to look back on such comments in the future. At least back then people could have reasonably claimed plausible deniability i.e. that they didn't know about the atrocities. Nowadays we have people be like "You upset about us being complicit in extermination and genocide of people? Just switch jobs lol"
Combine this with the fact that I find the current political situation in the US to be incredibly stress inducing and distracting.
It’s so much better to just keep work about work.
"I know you guys are all upset about the mass extermination of people but 'it’s so much better to just keep work about work.'" - IBM employee of the year 1948
Old school Polaroid employees back in the 1970s started the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers’ Movement to successfully pressure Kodak to stop their secret support for apartheid South Africa.
Labor strikes are also an old school alternative to "just switch jobs."
pbiggar•4h ago
They got Satya's keynote: https://x.com/NoAz4Apartheid/status/1924512658587263410
In the last one, during a security presentation, the presenter accidentally leaked private information as a result: https://www.theverge.com/news/671373/microsoft-ai-security-c...
Aeolun•4h ago
If only there was a very simple and obvious way to prevent that.
jedimind•3h ago