Former Google engineer Manu Cornet describes his time at Google in two phases. He mentions the first as "there were malfunctions in the wonderland" while the second as "disappointment".
These two descriptions are in fact the subtitles for the two comic book volumes published by Cornet about his former employer. He calls them comics Goomics.
Although Cornet was an engineer, 11 of his 14 years at Google created comics about employees, quirks, culture and, ultimately, the biggest social and ethical issues facing the company and its employees.
Some of these issues περιελάμβαναν συμβάσεις της Google με κυβερνητικές υπηρεσίες όπως το ICE, ή την ανάπτυξη μιας ειδικής μηχανής search για την κυβέρνηση της Κίνας που συμμορφώνεται με την λογοκρισία της χώρας και πολλά άλλα.
The problems αυτά έκαναν τον Cornet να προβληματιστεί για τη θέση του στην Google και τον ώθησαν να κάνει μια αλλαγή. Ο Cornet εγκατέλειψε recently his position and took a new job (at Twitter, a company he says he has fewer ethical problems with). He is the latest employee at a major tech company (including employees at Facebook and Amazon) to resign in protest at the company's overall behavior.
"As the years went by, there were more and more things that caused me to have moral concerns about what the company was doing at a higher level," Cornet said. "I had to look at the bigger picture and think that maybe I would be better off elsewhere."
Cornet posted the comics on the company's message board and employees could sign up to receive the new designs in their inbox. Over the years, about 10 percent of employees had registered, and eventually subscribers reached 13 to 14. At one point, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt had placed a print of one of Cornet's comics on his office door.
Now that Cornet has left Google, he's making the Goomics archive public free online and in two book volumes. It tells the “story of a tech company”, or as Cornet puts it: the “evolution from a colorful 'no evil' company, an idealistic view of Google that wasn't too far from reality" to "a company just like the others .”
