Some workers learned of the YouTube Music layoffs while testifying to the Austin city council about Google's refusal to negotiate with the union.

YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions::Some workers learned of the YouTube Music layoffs while testifying to the Austin city council about Google’s refusal to negotiate with the union.

  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    4 months ago

    Well, well, well… who would have thought that the company who said don’t do evil did evil anyway. This is why I don’t trust corporations because their only loyalty is to investors who just wants more money.

    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Genuinely, why is it so difficult to be a good company? There’s that one company that paid all their workers like 70k and the employees would die for the company. Loyalty means something and reinvesting in your workers builds a stronger company, no? What’s the deal? Everyone fights for pennies vs building a strong foundation in a company culture and living it.

      • whoisearth@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Honest answer. Infinite growth is the only business model we universally accept. This puts unrealistic expectations on how we define success.

        It’s not enough to own a successful diner making good cheap food for 500 people a day. Why can’t you do that for 5000 people? 50,000 people? Then in comes efficiency and questions about profit. Meanwhile your Zadie who started the restaurant 60 years ago is long dead and so is the simple life he envisioned for his kids.