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Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics (wapo.st)
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[–] Trollception@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Would you walk out of your 250,000/year software engineer gig over this? Most people won't and don't. Go to work, get paid, and live your life how you want.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is 250k the average wage or just the superstars?

[–] Trollception@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Average total comp for a software engineer at Google. The principals can make close to a million a year total comp

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

When my co-workers get terminated for political criticism? Yeah, I would. Lots of tech workers would and do — remember the Blizzard walkout several years ago? At the very least, this is the type of thing that spurs white collars to form unions.