Posted on Aug 9, 2017
Google may face lawsuit alleging gender discrimination
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In a lot of companies with policies like this there is usually a "hey, you messed up, we got a report, you have to show us for the next 3 months you changed your ways". Then, if another infraction, a full on Personal Improvement Program (3-6 months) before being fired. So, either there has been a fairly long HR documented problem between this engineer and Google or they had a knee jerk firing. Will be interested in the results of any lawsuits that come out of this...
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SGT Kevin Berman
I agree - I've read the internal memo written and find it really hard to see how violates Google's policies. If there are no earlier infractions, I see Google having a hard time in court explaining what part is in violation (though I'd expect Google to settle first, no way do they want an open court hearing w/ a jury).
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What happens to civilisations that punish smart people (in this case the Google employee) for speaking the truth (i.e. the employees memo), in order to intimidate others into silence?
https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed [login to see]
https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed [login to see]
Exclusive: Here's The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google...
Update 7:25pm ET: Google’s new Vice President of Diversity, Integrity & Governance Danielle Brown has issued her own memo to Google employees in response to the now-viral memo, “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber.” Brown’s statement, obtained by Motherboard, can be found in full at the end of this article.
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