<story><title>Workers Leaving the Googleplex</title><url>http://www.andrewnormanwilson.com/portfolios/70411-workers-leaving-the-googleplex</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>systems</author><text>Hey, first I am from Egypt.&lt;p&gt;Second, I have to admit, I am kind of struct by most of the comments here. Most of the comment are pro google and think andrew here got it for himself.&lt;p&gt;I believe this have to do a lot with cultural differences here. Most people in Egypt, would stand with the employee against the corporation. Most egyptians would definitely be pro andrew. I believe the reason here is that most Egyptians are either employees or owners of very small businesses, and would not perceive themselves as even potentially large business owners. Egypt being a poorer country and all. This is why most Egyptian would never try to put themselves in google&apos;s foot and try to see things from their perspective.&lt;p&gt;I guess the opposite is true from most of the ppl commenting here, they must think if I was google, I would have done the same, and it&apos;s probably because they don&apos;t see it as too far fetched. Either that or the western population is becomming alarmingly submissive to authority and unwilling to question their action.&lt;p&gt;Google are clearly being unfair, this should not be acceptable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trotsky</author><text>You have to understand that in the US there has been a significant anti-labor campaign, both in the media and in politics for at least the last 40 or 50 years. It&apos;s been reasonably effective, and took serious hold in the 1980&apos;s - many of the posters here have grown up in a world where labor issues are mostly only discussed in a context of how worker demands are holding back corporations. It&apos;s difficult to not have your attitudes effectively co-opted if you&apos;re only exposed to one side of the argument for most of your life.</text></comment>
<story><title>Workers Leaving the Googleplex</title><url>http://www.andrewnormanwilson.com/portfolios/70411-workers-leaving-the-googleplex</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>systems</author><text>Hey, first I am from Egypt.&lt;p&gt;Second, I have to admit, I am kind of struct by most of the comments here. Most of the comment are pro google and think andrew here got it for himself.&lt;p&gt;I believe this have to do a lot with cultural differences here. Most people in Egypt, would stand with the employee against the corporation. Most egyptians would definitely be pro andrew. I believe the reason here is that most Egyptians are either employees or owners of very small businesses, and would not perceive themselves as even potentially large business owners. Egypt being a poorer country and all. This is why most Egyptian would never try to put themselves in google&apos;s foot and try to see things from their perspective.&lt;p&gt;I guess the opposite is true from most of the ppl commenting here, they must think if I was google, I would have done the same, and it&apos;s probably because they don&apos;t see it as too far fetched. Either that or the western population is becomming alarmingly submissive to authority and unwilling to question their action.&lt;p&gt;Google are clearly being unfair, this should not be acceptable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nkassis</author><text>It&apos;s not that we think Google did it because they were hiding something but imaging those insinuations he was making end up in the press, and snowball, they decided they didn&apos;t want to deal with it and let him go, which is completely legal in most of the US with no reason needed.&lt;p&gt;Employment in the US is at-will or whatever it&apos;s called. You can leave your employment when you want and your employer can fire you when they want. This can obviously be overridden by a contract. I don&apos;t know what his said but it probably put some severance package in there. (1 month pay or whatever).&lt;p&gt;Not that might sound crazy why would that be OK but I prefer to work for someone who wants me to work for them then have some laws telling them they can&apos;t fire me without some crazy reason and have to go through a large process to do so.&lt;p&gt;As for the 4 classes of employees, I dunno about that but I mean those perks aren&apos;t rights they are used to entice people to work for a company and stay there. If they can get employees without them then why not. It&apos;s a for profit thing is it not?&lt;p&gt;And all this is why you can just go out and start your own company and never have to deal with that stuff ;p</text></comment>