Yes, they absolutely have not sorted it out. However, currently when you're working for a social media company this sort of behavior while not normal, has to be accounted for.
I wish I could be more sympathetic, there are people sharing information and entertainment on youtube that is priceless. But they're working for a faulty employer with a poor history of worker rights. Worker beware.
Having seen my fair shares of people like these, I say it has everything to do with their own personal lives not sorted and them taking it out at workplace. If anything, companies should be extra vigilant in rooting out such workers.
I don't think they even realise this employee is still needed or that they haven't figured out how to deal with this when the employee is gone. As for expecting an employee to make themselves available to a level they're not legally able to contract them to out of some shared passion... naive to say the very least.
And now they need to hire a communications person to review their social media posts as well as figure out who's going to be mercilessly on call in place of the employee in question.
I don't think we can reasonably expect company people to out their own misbehaviour and resolve this conflict. We are never going to know what happened.
I don't generally condone punishing employees for what their employers do, but this is a company whose whole business centers on unauthorized control of private resources. It's not at all a stretch to suppose that they exert such control over their own employees' accounts, or would consider doing so, making those accounts effectively proxies for the company. It's unfortunate that the employees are caught in the middle, but their inconvenience (this is social media not bank accounts) is outweighed by other concerns.
Yeah, and any employee with a shred of self respect would tell the bank to go hang. I've had clients complain about what staff say on social media (not about clients or work!), I just tell them it's none of their or my business, and if they really care, get your lawyers in touch.
If there was, they wouldn't or at least shouldn't blog about it. To me it just feels like a well deserved rant, that hopefully lifts some weight off the author's shoulders, and gives us some interesting topic for discussion.
I've never heard of a lawsuit over emotional/psychological damage done by a difficult work environment (apart from those due to the racism/sexism/abuse-of-power/etc..). I do agree that psychologically difficult work environments are very common and many are not really avoidable even though some (like probably this one) definitely are.
IANAL but I think it would be easy for Google to argue that they're paying their workers exorbitant wages with the idea that they would be working at the highest tier of skill, responsibility, competitiveness and stress. Even though in this particular situation it doesn't seem very warranted.
How many tens thousands of workers are working in soul crushing zombifying factory lines and Amazon warehouses? I've heard that if you work for Amazon in Seattle you literally don't see sunlight for the entire winter. If we're going to defend the brains of our highest paid workers, what about our lowest ones?
Of course, ideally we would both, I'm just saying law makers are probably not very keen on opening that can of worms.
Totally fair - life has nuance and its not clear cut moral high-ground to air all grievances on Twitter.
> That oversimplifies this situation because an employer, regardless of it having outrageous work environment characteristics, has a responsibility to its employees. Like, in court.
Butttttt I gotta say companies routinely violate said legal obligations and intentionally commit resources to continued abuse of said obligations - knowing individuals lack the resources to fight back or institute meaningful change through legal recourse.
Yikes. The company seems to be at fault here, treating employees very (very!) poorly. Ugly stuff.
What worries me about sensationalist media coverage of a story like this one, in the middle of a pandemic-induced global economic slowdown, is that the media coverage itself could motivate other, copycat episodes of employee violence.
Also if her manager has been giving her good feedback, then this is just wrong. How would you supposed to know you're not meeting expectation if you're not getting appropriate feedback. If this is all true, and I there is no reason to believe it isn't, then these companies are just scum.
Maybe so, but the PM is still taking hostile action against the users. If the company requires such behavior and employees go along with it, it's still totally fair to blame the employees as well as the company.
WTF yes they are. Only an utterly dysfunctional corporate culture would tolerate putting people under that amount of stress.
Ignoring "be a decent human being" for a moment, and only looking at the money (because this is one way to communicate with dysfunctional corps): companies have a duty of care to protect their staff from harm, and this includes mental distress. By not addressing the abuse the company is leaving itself open to costly legal action.
I dont agree. 99% of this time this type of stuff stays private because the employee is fearful of repercussions and as a result, new employees never get warned about the mess they are walking into. Thats why I upvoted this- It takes balls to air this publicly and thats the only thing you can do to stop shit behavior like this from happening and scare other companys into treating people right.
So long as companys think they can get away with treating you like shit, most of them will. Stuff like this stops that.
Listen I think it’s important to keep people in the loop and I always do. It’s common courtesy. But after having experienced this as a job seeker countless times it’s hard for me to have sympathy with these companies now that the power dynamics have shifted a bit in favor of employees. Behaviors like this are learned.
If this did happen (seems weird to me not to link to example bad reviews) then it seems to be conflating the bad behavior of some employees with their company.
Surely the company has enough money to figure all this stuff out. The way things are described, it feels like the company is being incredibly disrespectful to its employees.
I have no specific knowledge of this case, but I agree with you this feels off. I have seen this dozen of times during the course of my own career.
The standard playbook anytime an employee whistleblows, makes an HR complaint, etc, is to paint them as disgruntled and look for a legal action they can make against them.
I wish I could be more sympathetic, there are people sharing information and entertainment on youtube that is priceless. But they're working for a faulty employer with a poor history of worker rights. Worker beware.
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