Apr 12 2008
Google is now officially evil
For me, this report confirms that Google’s famous “Don’t be Evil” philosophy is complete B.S.
Here’s the news from ValleyWag:
A recently departed DoubleClicker tells us that Google managers asked employees at the online ad company it acquired last month to sign one-year noncompete agreements. Most agreed, thinking that it would spare their jobs — but then layoffs came a week later. They were “pretty pissed” over the bait-and-switch and were forced to find jobs outside their industry.
Read the text of the noncompete clause here on ValleyWag.
Looks like Google needs to add another “full disclosure” to the bottom of their philosophy:
* Full-disclosure update #2: When we first wrote these “10 things” four years ago, we included the phrase “You can make money without doing evil.” Over time we’ve learned that you can in fact make much more money by doing evil. In that time, we’ve expanded our company by gobbling up others and actions that then seemed unlikely are now key aspects of our philosophy (such as screwing employees of companies that we acquire). This doesn’t mean we’ve changed our core mission (total domination); just that the farther we travel toward achieving it, the more blurry those once lofty ethics have become.
Have you signed any employment contracts recently with non-competes?
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Doesn’t the U.S. have restraint of trade legislation that would strike out those terms as oppressive or harsh?
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