There are many hard lessons in life that one has to pick up along the way and one of those lessons just hit about two dozen workers at Google who learned they are replaceable.
Google fired 28 employees after they were involved in protests against a $1.2 billion contract with Amazon to provide the Israeli government and military with AI and cloud services.
"Yes, you figured it out, you are dispensable. This is not a non-profit, they're in it to make money," WWL's Newell Normand said. "If you don't like the company you work for, quit. You don't need to be disrupting their operations, disrupting what they're doing. Defacing their property ... just leave. Because for every one of you, there are one thousand who want to work for Google."
The protests took place Tuesday at Google offices in New York City, Seattle, and Sunnyvale, California. Protesters in New York and California staged a nearly 10-hour sit-in. Nine of them were arrested Tuesday evening on trespassing charges.
Normand said the protest should have taught them they don't have a First Amendment right to disrupt their workplace.
On Wednesday evening, the workers were informed they were being dismissed by the company, according to a statement from Google staff.
“Physically impeding other employees’ work and preventing them from accessing our facilities is a clear violation of our policies, and completely unacceptable behavior," Google said in a statement about the protesters. “After refusing multiple requests to leave the premises, law enforcement was engaged to remove them to ensure office safety."
