Imagine being fired after only nine days. Sucks to be them, right?
Tuesday Carne had only worked inside a Google data centre for nine days before she was allegedly fired for being "ungoogley."? ?
The temp worker has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against her employer, Modis, and Alphabet Inc.'s Google, putting the world's third-biggest company at the centre of another workplace dispute.
The 29-year-old's job was to maintain the equipment at a Google site in South Carolina.?Google fills many of these roles with contract firms such as Modis, a unit of Adecco Group AG.?
During the second week of her being on the job, Carne attended a regular meeting where managers discussed upcoming schedules. She was informed that employees who worked holidays shifts were entitled to double pay, but she was not eligible?for the same since it only applied to those employees who had worked there for at least six months beforehand.
Carne was not aware of this policy and blurted out, "I basically said, 'That's bulls---,'" she recalled.?
Later that evening, she received an email from a Modis manager that called her behaviour in the meeting "unacceptable and 'ungoogley,'" according to a copy of the message viewed by Bloomberg News. She was fired.?
Carne received help from Alphabet Workers Union, a labour advocacy group.?
In the new complaint from AWU, the labour group said Carne was exercising legally protected speech during the November meeting.?
Representatives from Modis and Google didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
"I just want my job back," said Carne, who had recently moved from Michigan to take the role. "It felt like the winds were taken out of my sails."
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