• TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The fact that they call their employees “Googlers” is very strange and kinda makes me feel a little uncomfy.

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      7 months ago

      I’m pretty sure it started off self-driven but it’s definitely more cult than culture now.

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        7 months ago

        Reminds me of those super creepy Walmart chants they did (still do?) at the beginning of the shift.

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        7 months ago

        You mean that the employees of Amazon AREN’T exclusively mythical warrior women from the South American rainforest?! 😱

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      7 months ago

      Not as bad as metamates. It’s amazing how much money is accumulated by people who are so far removed from basic human sensibilities. I don’t know if the money makes them detached or if their detachment is somehow a key to them making so much money.

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      7 months ago

      Every tech company names their employees tbf and I think that’s a cool way to promote culture. “Employee” feels impersonal and un-team like, it has this conotation of Employer-employee relationship which we all try to delude ourselves is not real lol

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        7 months ago

        Frankly, you won’t get fair treatment unless you treat it like an employer-employee relationship; It reminds me of workplaces that say ‘we’re family’. I have personally found those kinds of workplaces to be some of the most exploitative, because they want you to feel like you owe them something when you honestly don’t.

        In my opinion, companies intentionally use tactics like this to abstract away from that fact.

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        7 months ago

        Having worked in some of these tech companies with company names, I’ve got to disagree. It’s very cringy.

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        7 months ago

        Every tech company names their employees

        That doesn’t make it any less cringy and manipulative.

        a cool way to promote culture

        It’s actually a manipulative way to try to make employees think “we’re all in this together” when in reality they’re treated as completely disposable the moment a dollar of extra profit is available.

        “Employee” feels impersonal and un-team like

        Which it SHOULD. Google isn’t a team. It’s a vehicle for turning labor and ads into corporate profits. Any company loyalty is as one-sided as that towards Donald Trump.

        it has this conotation of Employer-employee relationship

        Well, duh!

        we all try to delude ourselves is not real lol

        Speak for yourself. Some of us try to avoid delusions and manipulative business practices rather than celebrate them.

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            7 months ago

            Yeah, the fat cats at the head of Google and other companies like them hurt us all. The difference is that I’m not falling for their gaslighting like you seem to be determined to.

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                7 months ago

                If you don’t hate what the Google leadership does, you’re not paying attention or you’re willfully ignorant. I suspect that it’s both in your case.