If you missed the news, Oracle founder Larry Ellison is hosting a fundraiser for Donald Trump.
He’s a Silicon Valley billionaire tech founder, so this has triggered some of his tech worker employees.
Vox has decided to highlight their suffering.
Some Oracle employees plan to walk off the job to protest Larry Ellison’s Trump fundraiser
Oracle activists are calling the Thursday plan: “No Ethics / No Work.”
On Thursday, some Oracle employees announced plans to stop working for a few hours in order to protest their boss’s fundraiser, Recode has learned, part of a push described as “No Ethics / No Work.” A group of activists at Oracle are calling on employees to spend their afternoons volunteering with community or advocacy groups, technically part of a “log off” since so many employees work remotely.
Having failed to pressure Ellison into canceling the event, these workers are now calling on Ellison and Oracle’s board to “host a fundraiser or commit funds to a humanitarian cause of their choice” and to issue a statement “denouncing the administration’s reckless, divisive political tactics, reaffirming our company’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, and committing to diversifying the Board of Directors.”
Woke employees making demands that Oracle bend over backwards to the woke scolds.
We’re not talking about a CEO who is dumping Chrome Six into a water source or something like that. This is much worse than that. The CEO, in his personal time, is raising money for the reelection campaign of the duly elected Republican President of the United States.
The Oracle employees’ reaction reflects how toxic Trump remains in Silicon Valley — and the ire that top tech executives can draw when they align themselves with the president. And it’s revealing that it’s happening at Oracle, which employees say has a conservative culture that has not been touched by the current bouts of workforce activism sweeping major tech companies.
“It signals what I and many others have always feared,” one current Oracle employee told Recode. “Culturally, Oracle is the type of place where you’ll work with many lovely people who you share common ideals with, but those ideals have to be left at the door in service of the company.”
What Progressive oracle employees fear is having to work for a Conservative and not being able to transform Oracle into a Woke failure. Oh, the horror.
On Friday, employees began circulating a petition addressed to Ellison that now has almost 6,000 signatures, although non-Oracle employees can sign it as well. The petition calls on him to cancel the fundraising event. Oracle employees are also adding the link to the petition in their email signatures and are publicizing it in internal Oracle forums, trying to drum up pressure in a company not known for activism.
“Larry Ellison’s personal implicit endorsement and financial support of Donald Trump not only damages our brand perception and misrepresents the diverse views of our company, but it adversely affects the morale of the individuals and communities who comprise Oracle,” said the group behind the petition, called Oracle Employees for Ethics.
“This fundraiser is a slap in the face to all of us, especially as Larry champions the environment and is building a hospital,” this employee said, referring to Ellison’s personal philanthropy. “This shows that he cares about money over all else. And that is what matters. But what is the average employee to do?”
What every average employee who wants to silence their boss can do is get fucked. I hope Ellison fires every single employee who signed that petition.
It is the fucking hypocrisy that pisses me off the most.
My example of Chrome Six was not made up. Apple subcontractors dumped heavy metals into drinking water overseas. Apple employees didn’t state a walkout demanding that apple not do business with them. Neither did they walk out when it was exposed that iPhones are built by slave labor in China.
Google will not work with the US military, but it will work with the Chinese government to censor and spy on Chinese citizens. They claimed to have killed Project Dragonfly, but in name only. They are still developing Chinese government approved products. I’ve never seen a Google employee walk out of that.
Facebook sold American Facebook user data to China. No Facebook employee walkouts.
Twitter worked with the Chinese government to censor the social media app. No walkouts there either.
Silicon Valley tech workers don’t seem to care if their technology is used to oppress people in China, harm American privacy rights, hurt America’s national security, pollute the planet, or support modern-day slavery.
They seem to support all those things with alacrity because it makes them big fat bonuses.
Supporting Donald Trump, on the other hand, is an ethical violation they just can’t get over.
So each and every one of those Oracle workers can fuck themselves with a hot poker and quit or get fired and do something more in line with their ethics, like develop a direct to consumer subscription service for low-cost pet food from China tainted with melamine.
Sure, it puts American workers out of a job and kills family pets, but that’s just what it takes to become a tech mogul that can afford to buy a house in San Francisco, and you don’t have to do anything really icky, like work for a guy who supports a Republican.
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