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Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday.

In a memo sent to all employees on Wednesday, Chris Rackow, Google’s head of global security, said that “behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it.”

He also warned that the company would take more action if needed: “The overwhelming majority of our employees do the right thing. If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again. The company takes this extremely seriously, and we will continue to apply our longstanding policies to take action against disruptive behavior — up to and including termination.”

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Proton suite of apps have 1:1 replacements for the entire Gsuite. Some things are locked behind a subscription (email is fully free), so if you're not into that there's NextCloud if you can/want to self-host. Tuta is also a decent Gmail replacement. As for Gapps, there isn't really any good replacements; MicroG breaks a lot of things and sandboxed google play services is the only other alternative (which is only available on GrapheneOS afaik).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Proton suite of apps have 1:1 replacements for the entire Gsuite

That's just not true, they don't have office applications or video chat. I wish they did though. Also, their storage is pretty expensive.

Their email is pretty good though, and they have a decent VPN service as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

they don’t have office applications or video chat

Oh right, true. I forget Google has those.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Google Sheets is the last thing really holding my back from abandoning Google. It's just so convenient, and I'm more comfortable with it than LibreOffice. I like that I can edit things on my phone, which I haven't found an alternative for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

OnlyOffice

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Does that support something like the GOOGLEFINANCE API, or at least some kind of scripting where I could add it? I really like looking up stock quotes.