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Depends on the employer, question is do you want to work for someone as a mindless robot as they give you a paycheck or for someone that actually takes personal responsibility when things go wrong. At the end of the day most businesses would choose money

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Most companies aren't looking to hire adults who think they are still in college and think doing a sit-in in the deans office is important use of their time and an effective tactic. Let alone people getting arrested for trespassing.

Some hiring managers might like their tweets and show support in their personal time but when it comes down to actually hiring them they'll wonder if this person will be disruptive and constantly bring their personal activist life into the workplace, making other employees lives difficult, lack self control and say the wrong thing to customers, etc.

You can belittle them but they literally made national headlines with their actions

Surprisingly we are well aware about Whatsapp groups which surfaced few months ago where executives and other high position holders of tech companies targeted tech works who were just posting on their personal regarding this. Why didn't something like that make national headlines and pushed from more accountability? Easy to point finger at employees when employers have the upper hand

You can make "national headlines" by doing stupid shit too. Just go out and shoot a bunch of people. Boom! National headlines.

It's no secret that companies prefer mindless robots. It's just easier to organize them when they don't have their own opinions.

> they'll wonder if this person will be disruptive and constantly bring their personal activist life into the workplace

Corporations very often take stance on political issues, also when interacting with their own employees. For example all the pride events, which Google is known for. So it's not like these employees started bringing politics to the office, but rather they dared to have their own opinion that the system didn't like.

Well yes it’s true at work the only politics you can espouse are those the company generally agrees with.

If you went to Google campuses and protested gay marriage rights then you probably would be fired too.

Nobody cares until you start making nuisance to everyone around you, impeding their work and life because you care about X.

I dont care about X why do I have to deal with your 'protest'?

People who just want to live their their best lives aren't "mindless robots". One could also characterize a "mindless robot" as someone who is willing to sacrifice themselves for a cause that they see in black and white.

If the protesters camped in an execs office for pride and refused to leave, they'd likely also get arrested. It's just that there wouldn't be such a protest in the first place.

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