scardycat

So? Facebook makes profit, the gas station down the street makes profit.

How does a software engineer at Google worth more value than one at timbuktu? No, they are not. They just are not in the right place at the right time.

Do you think selling ads is changing the world? Do you think that makes you worth more than someone else? Wake up and smell the coffee.

> Sure "it's a business" but does that give it a green card to act how it pleases?

of course, yes! As long as it stays within the boundaries set by the law. Do you not act as you please? Do you not eat a $40 meal while a homeless person is lying outside in the cold? DO you not send your kid to a private school at $100k/year while the kid down the street (down the highway) struggles for school supplies?

> So please, stop telling people how to behave and act and protest. We're not putting in 100 hour weeks because someone before you had the audacity to go say the current system is inhumane.

I am not tell you how to behave, I am tell you to not tell the company how to behave. You are free to leave and go do what you think is right.

> Google employees provide a lot more value to Google than they are compensated for.

how? can you justify what makes these people (you) so special? IN all honesty, they are probably overvalued in every sense.

>Absolutely incorrect. Paychecks have nothing to do with whether you as a person find the company's policies palatable or not

You are right because they already made their money and can afford to quit over whatever. Of course it has to do with money. Anyone who thinks otherwise is lying to themselves. If money did not matter, they would have not worked at Google, there are other ways to make the world a better place than add snow effect on photos.

I currently work at Google, but I am a newbie, i.e less than 5 years at Google.

I frequently run in to people who are: 1) always been at Google and enjoyed the fruits of its rise or at another similar environment 2) never had to deal with frugality or lack of funding for anything 3) see themselves are superior to everyone else - in terms of how enlightened they are, how they know whats best for everyone 4) feel that they have an absolute say in anything Google does

These people do not know the realities of the world. Plain and simple. They had a good life and think that is it.

One thing they dont seem to realize is that almost everyone else has had to deal with growth challenges, lack of capital and access to resources. No one exists to only make the world better. Contrary to their disbelief, most people and organizations, including themselves and Google, have the first priority to survive, to grow, to flourish and to abide by all applicable laws. Once this is satisfied, they move on to grander things like charity, investing in the well being of others etc.

The very reason these people have the capability to leave their jobs for whatever reason is that they already took care of the first priority - to survive and thrive, courtesy Google.

Google is a business, and as a business it has the fiduciary duty to serve itself and its interests first.

If these people have any conscience that they claim to have, they need to stop pointing at Google, stop riding in their luxury SUVs, stop eating in insanely expensive restaurants, stop vacationing in luxury resorts, stop purchasing multi million dollar homes, and first go try to serve in the government to change the laws and society in which we all live and abide by.

Stop trying to tell a large corporation to stop doing business and make profits, go change the society in which it operates. Then we will talk.

Enough of the BS.

You dont like working here, move on. Let us have the opportunity to contribute and grow and be successful.