I'm trying to figure out just what makes me uncomfortable about your comment.
In the end, maybe it comes down to: what you have written are words, which are only an appearance. I don't have any means of verifying your record as an eng manager, and this comment doesn't contain any reference to direct activity in this case--nor should it!--because that is the kind of action that should happen within Google's private mechanics.
That's the discomfort: greetings and farewells are formal gestures, but all-too-often empty ones. Yours ring empty to me.
Everything about your post, whether you intended that or not, is constructed to make you/Google look good. I bet you wouldn't say your intent was to make yourself look good, right? Then what was your objective?
And in any case, is any of that a bad thing? Or is it just another comment on corporate loyalty?
Consider that in the context of a naive intern's post in this post-PRISM world:
>>Google’s radical approach to transparency and commitment to the mantra of "Don't be Evil" is extremely admirable.
Right.
---
Please understand, my reaction is purely contemplative. There is a regrettable urge towards conflict when any ideologies meet, but I like to believe we can still come to peaceable verbal agreements. And forgive the irony of this paragraph, if you can.
In the end, maybe it comes down to: what you have written are words, which are only an appearance. I don't have any means of verifying your record as an eng manager, and this comment doesn't contain any reference to direct activity in this case--nor should it!--because that is the kind of action that should happen within Google's private mechanics.
That's the discomfort: greetings and farewells are formal gestures, but all-too-often empty ones. Yours ring empty to me.
Everything about your post, whether you intended that or not, is constructed to make you/Google look good. I bet you wouldn't say your intent was to make yourself look good, right? Then what was your objective?
And in any case, is any of that a bad thing? Or is it just another comment on corporate loyalty?
Consider that in the context of a naive intern's post in this post-PRISM world:
>>Google’s radical approach to transparency and commitment to the mantra of "Don't be Evil" is extremely admirable.
Right.
---
Please understand, my reaction is purely contemplative. There is a regrettable urge towards conflict when any ideologies meet, but I like to believe we can still come to peaceable verbal agreements. And forgive the irony of this paragraph, if you can.