Google used to tell workers 'Don't be evil.' Now it just wants them to be quiet, former top exec says

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'It's really just sad to see this company I really believed in…just completely lose its way,' said Ross LaJeunesse, Google's former global head of international relations.

that LaJeunesse lost his role due to the"reorganization of our policy team" and nothing more.

"Doing the right thing," the Senate contender said, has always been important to him."I came out when I was 20 in 1990, which was not an easy thing to do. I did it because I wanted to live a life of truth and I decided that I would never live in a closet again, that I would always live a life of truth."

"I expected it to be controversial, but I didn't expect to be fired over it," said Spiers, who has filed a complaint over the incident with the U.S. National Labor Relations Board. "There wasn't a singular moment," he said."I would use the analogy of the frog, where the water slowly gets warmed and you don't realize it until it's a little too late and you find yourself in boiling water."

The message Google leaders used to try to send to workers, LaJeunesse said, was to"act like an owner. [That] was always something that I would tell my team. We would tell everybody to act like an owner and take responsibility, that you're not just a cog in a giant wheel; you're being hired to speak up and share your views."

 

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