On: Facebook Refused No-Poaching Agreement With Google

[billyjobob]

What was that motto? Don't be... ending? Don't be evasive? ... Don't be Evan? No, sorry, it's gone. Can't have been important anyway, or someone would have remembered it.

[badman_ting → billyjobob]

I think it was "Let's choose three words that people will beat us over the head with until the end of time every time we so much as throw a gum wrapper on the ground"

[sharkweek → badman_ting]

I don't care if the company's slogan is "HAIL SATAN, EVIL ROCKS AND CUTE ANIMALS SUCK" -- if they're doing something illegal, they deserve to be beaten over the head.

[badman_ting → sharkweek]

Precisely -- they should be taken to task for their unethical and illegal actions, not some cutesy-poo slogan.

[wavefunction → badman_ting]

Don't pick a cutesy-poo slogan as your corporate motto, do the opposite, and not expect to get grief over it. Why pick that slogan in the first place?

I know "vision-statements" and things like that don't get a lot of mileage here but character matters.

[theonemind → badman_ting]

Well, I believe this sort of agreement violates the law and workers' rights. Perhaps people do expect too much of them because of that slogan, but we can condemn any company for illegal, anti-competitive behavior.

[gress → badman_ting]

Those three words obtained them disproportionate goodwill, so now they deserve the opposite.

[beedogs → badman_ting]

Yeah except this time they absolutely deserve it.

[a3n → billyjobob]

  dont be
    don't be a menace
    don't be hatin
    don't be sad
    don't be evil

https://www.google.com/#q=don%27t+be+evil

Organizing the world's famous last words.