[pmyteh]

You might get fired for... supporting your bosses' decision to fire someone?

[j4yav]

There is a strange thing in modern discourse where there is an advantage in first establishing yourself as a victim before making your point.

[dx87]

More like, you support the decision, but your immediate boss doesn't, so they start looking for reasons to get rid of you that don't have any official connection to your stance. I remember a while back seeing leaked documents from Google where some managers shared an unofficial blacklist of employees to never promote and try to get rid of because of their political views.

[tehwebguy]

Every non-union employee in every state other than Montana has this potential problem.

The difference is in smaller companies the unspoken rules are often spoken out loud and the employees don’t make Google money.

[dschuler]

How does Montana deal with that problem differently?

[eat_veggies]

Why are we conjuring hypothetical situations in which you are oppressed, instead of condemning the concrete case where Jeff Dean looked for flimsy reasons to get rid of Timnit Gebru?

[dontblink]

CA is an at will state. He can fire her for no reason if he wishes, let alone a "flimsy" one.

[chinesempire]

Is that true?

Why do people call it "the land of the free" then?