For generations, if you are an individual, if you landed a job with the government, it was deemed as a safe and secure place to work and for the most part the job was insulated from the cycles of the economy. When the economy was down, the job was reasonably safe, when the economy is up, there are choices but the job is reasonably safe. If you are work for a private business, gaining a government contract is a good thing.

In an article written by Tripp Mickle of the New York Times News Agencies, a business with government contracts is receiving pushback from the employees. More than 800 employees called on management in a petition to be transparent about how Google’s technology supports the federal immigration agencies and urged the company to stop business with those organizations..

They asked the company to take safety measures to protect employees after a reported attempt to protect employees after a reported attempt by Immigration and Customs agents to enter the company’s campus in Cambridge, Mass.

Tech workers, who have largely stayed quiet as executives cozied up to the Trump administration, are beginning to push some of the world’s largest companies to pressure the White House to change its policies.

Many employees in Google believe in the company’s informal motto: Don’t be evil.

A Google spokesperson said the Department of Homeland Security used commercially available cloud infrastructure through Google’s customers, including basic cloud computing and storage services.

Linking to dividend paying stocks, anytime the client is the government, there will things it does that some will not like, there be other things that people love. Government contracts tend to be consistent and they help pay the bills. No having government contracts is hard because many things overlap, but ideally having them means better policies exist or could exist.

There are more questions than answers, till the next time – to raising questions.