Here‘s what she writes on Medium:
Part of my job was to write browser notifications so that my coworkers can be automatically notified of employee guidelines and company policies while they surf the web.
Further down:
I created a little notification, only a few lines of code, that pops up in the corner of the browser whenever my coworkers visited the union busters’ website or the community guidelines policy. The notification said: “Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities.”
and then:
We frequently add things to make our jobs easier or even to just share hobbies or interests. For example,
And then there‘s no example that matches what she did.
So Google argues the tool she used was for alerting people to Google‘s official guidelines and policies relating to websites the user is browsing. AFAIK she used it to point out what the law is, not Google‘s policy.
Of course Google is pissed, and uses that to retaliate. What did she expect?
For the record: I don‘t like the way Google does things, and I don’t think that can be changed from within, Google/Alphabet needs to be broken into smaller companies, and the industry needs heavy regulation. I avoid their services like the plague, and every time one of their recruiters contacted me, I told them in no ambiguous terms I would never work for them.
