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> earlier this month, more than 1,000 employees called on the company to cancel deals with oil and gas companies.

what's wrong with these employees? Keep your political opinions to yourself. So they propose that my company lose money because of your activism. Don't agree! What if some employees asked that Google cancel any deals with climate change NGOs? How would these employees feel about it?

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What's wrong with asking? The company doesn't have to agree, but there is no harm in asking.

They aren't really asking, are they? Asking is a question at TGIF. What these people were doing is trying to create a bloc of activists that comes with the implied or explicit threat of coordinated employee action or pressure, as they've engaged in previously. They're pushing the boundaries to see how much control over management they really have.

Good! The idea that management should by right have all the power in its relationship with workers is very convenient for management, but I don't see why that obligates anyone else to take it seriously.

I disagree, this shows that it is not a niche concern, and management should be aware of the workers concerns, they can overrule them if they want, but your workers are you first set of customers, so you can expect a similar pushback from your main customer base. So again if you want to overrule concerns you have a better idea of what they are and how to challenge them.

of course this works only for some political opinions. Others, like the ones expressed by Damore grant you fired.

Some people care what they do with their lives.

How would you feel if instead of Google it was Facebook, and instead of oil and gas they were raising privacy concerns?

homo sapiens is a political animal and you can't just pretend (or expect) that for 8 hours in day it isn't true. you couldn't expect that from slaves so why would you expect that from employees?

Spotted the irritating person to work with.

false dichotomy. you’re free to ask my colleagues.

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Didn't notice given there's no way to see if you have an unread reply. Sorry!

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