[pr0zac]

Well no, but considering that she seems to have followed the correct processes if she had done that I'd have expected the response to be rolling back the commit and a follow up postmortem to document what was missing from the process that allowed it to happen and changes made to the process to prevent it from happening in the future. Not firing the employee. You shouldn't blame workers for system failures.

[scarface74]

What if your manager told you it was okay to post “Make America Great Again” or “Hope” (Obama’s slogan) slogans on everyone’s desk because he was staunch Republican/Democrat - would you just shrug and say “my manager said it was okay”?

[danso]

Again, labor/union messaging has protections that political campaigning does not. If you were a manager and you told your employee to throw away the pro-union pamphlet that you taped to your cubicle wall, your manager would be putting the company in legal trouble.

[scarface74]

Taping it to your wall is acceptable. Posting it to my computer screen isn’t.

[throwaway2048]

why, and more importantly, why is this an "immediately fire" level of offense, would this have been the result if the popup reminded you that its earth day?

Its naive to think her firing had nothing to do with the fact Google doesn't like unions.

[scarface74]

Why? It’s just like religion. If your religion tells you not to drink, I will respect that. If your religion tells you that I’m not allowed to drink I will tell you to f’ off.

[throwaway2048]

The irony being of course, Google's entire business is shoving ads into people's faces that approximately nobody wants to see.