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YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions (www.businessinsider.com)

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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.

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[–] SuperIce@lemmy.world 82 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (58 children)

Cognizant, a professional services company that Alphabet contracted the YouTube Music team through, said in a statement that the workers were let go after their contract ended at its intended date, according to KXAN in Austin.

A spokesperson for Google told Business Insider that Cognizant is responsible for ending the workers' employment, not Google.

"Contracts with our suppliers across the company routinely end on their natural expiry date, which was agreed to with Cognizant," the company said in a statement.

Not sure how much of the fault is from Google's side here since the employees contracted from another company.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 106 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I am not defending Google here, but Cognizant is trash. I run a firm of specialist and a bulk of our work is cleaning up after outfits like Cognizant , Infosys, etc.

All that said, firing a group of 43 workers that chose to unionize during an Austin City Council meeting as it was being live streamed is all sorts of spicy. Google and Cognizant fucked up.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How's that work, is there lots of hair pulling? Or are you able to charge an arm and a leg and set your timelines because the clients don't have much of a choice?

[–] enoqe@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also curious about this. I don’t run a firm, but I do have to cleanup and maintain consultancy projects after they get dumped on me / "my team". I’ve been trying to think of ways to prevent contracts with "certain" companies, but since I am one of few technical people interacting with these projects it is proving harder said than done. My complaints on quality of code, maintainability, et cetera are met with "they move faster", "they have more expertise doing projects like this", and "they help keep us lean".

I do feel like my position in the company is mostly herding cats (read: consultancy projects), which is a bit unfortunate given it wasn’t really what I thought I was being hired to do.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

My complaints on quality of code, maintainability, et cetera are met with “they move faster”, “they have more expertise doing projects like this”, and “they help keep us lean”.

This is all corpo speak for "they were cheap and their H1Bs were close to expiration"

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