wrote about burnout and loneliness and the mental prep to blow up your google (or any, really) career techsupport.substack.com/p/is-there-a-c…

I've been incredibly fortunate, and that was only possible with many, many mentors, friends, and supportive family, chosen and blood. I'm hoping to pass that on, so with UW-Madison Sociology I've started a scholarship fund targeting QTPOC undergrads in sociology. secure.supportuw.org/give/?id=99224…

Social media = “a non-Euclidian costume party where the hosts left and the theme keeps changing” -Taylor Black One of many brilliant ideas from this recent workshop w Kimay Pelayo and others 👇🏽👇 lovely writeup by claire stapleton

NEW: B/w 2018 and 2020, Google had a secret anti-union project described by an executive as an initiative to “convince [employees] that unions suck." Part of this project included having a "respected voice" pen an anti-union oped about tech worker unions. vice.com/en/article/v7d…

NEW: Google’s motto is “Don’t Be Evil.” Its labor & business practices are anything but. When workers mobilized against Google’s contract with CBP & work on the U.S. military’s drone program, Google fired the lead organizers. We spoke with the workers terminated for organizing.

some day i will stop talking about google and its infinite institutional hypocrisies but that day is not today techsupport.substack.com/p/the-harassme…

New Deep Voices - music for mourning. Featuring Peter Garland, Doubling Riders, Himangshu Biswas, Sky H1, Barbara Manning, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, and @BillCallaman deepvoices.substack.com/p/deep-voices-…

if you're not reading claire stapleton' Tech Support, you're missing out techsupport.substack.com

One of the joys of book-writing was talking to and reading claire stapleton Now you can hear her talk! On an excellent pod with Lizzie O'Leary & yours truly. slate.com/podcasts/what-…

wonderful company celebrating the whole person! if you want to commiserate abt today's tech layoffs pls join our industry disillusionment-themed discord: discord.gg/TBFkYJyHf7

As always claire stapleton speaking with unwavering clarity about the lie of "do what you love" and the workplace as a "family" in the aftermath of tech layoffs. techsupport.substack.com/p/game-over

“We were supposed to be the most empowered workplace in the world. Why did people not feel like they could actually raise a complaint?” claire stapleton, a former Google and YouTube employee, tells @lourdesgnavarro about her Big Tech career. nyti.ms/3IiJtlO

Big Tech holds a special place in our workplace culture. It exported alot of ideas and language about mission driven work and employees' place in corporate America. But companies aren't your family and claire stapleton says we all need to learn the lesson "Work Won't Love You Back"

Great interview with ex-Googler ⁦claire stapleton⁩ on RNZ about the rise and fall of careers in Silicon Valley, and how what seemed like dream jobs turned toxic. I understand Claire’s point of view—the world is riddled with toxic workplaces. 🇺🇸 🇳🇿 rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

A new claire stapleton newsletter about Google ladder-climbers? Immediate read. techsupport.substack.com/p/managing-up?…

I immediately fell in love with claire stapleton's fierce & smart & wickedly funny voice on the page, and her story-- about giving your whole self to work, and the slow-then-fast waking up and radicalization that follows- is one as important as it is profoundly relatable

thrilled/blessed/scared to be writing a book about crashing out of my corporate good girl era and the journey to figure out some better ways to work, live, and be in the world...shoutout to my wonderful agent Caroline Eisenmann and angel editor Hannah Phillips for making it real