“UnGoogley”? Worker says she was fired for questioning no holiday pay

The article doesn&#x27;t do this directly, but to push back against the implicit message:<p>Google directly employs 2 orders of magnitude more people than live in my suburb. It is meaningless - completely meaningless - to hold up one example of a subcontractor as some sort of general case. Especially without context, there is probably more to the story that didn&#x27;t make the article.<p>Also my condolences to this woman if her parents named her Tuesday.

The article&#x27;s author, Jeff Elder, writes:<p>&gt; Now, I don’t know about you, but I have three reactions to this:<p>Now, I don’t know about you, but I have one reaction to this: you&#x27;re a newspaper reporter, Jeff. State the facts; I don&#x27;t care about your opinion.

Regardless of whether you think people should be paid extra for working on a holiday, or whether you think its right that a union is helping this person, what should be <i>immediately obvious</i> is that firing someone for questioning a policy is completely wrong.

She works for a sub, that&#x27;s why they pay the premium, to insulate. This is sorta dumb.

Do people typically get paid more for working on holidays? I can&#x27;t say I&#x27;ve heard of that but I&#x27;ve also always been salaried, where extra work is not directly compensated.

The Alphabet Workers Union members are of course OK with paying twice the price in restaurants and in stores outside of the normal working hours.

I know it&#x27;s not unheard of, but i have never in my career been offered extra money for working holidays.<p>I think it&#x27;s the right thing to do, both for the worker and for the business (don&#x27;t want grumpy workers on the holidays), but yeah if you throw a tantrum (?) for not getting a perk, then that sounds ungoogley.