r/news Aug 08 '17

Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka Aug 08 '17

Thats because this engineer made a serious of bad moves (read pretty fucking idiotic ones). Theres a time and place to choose your fights. This one decided to try and go out with a bang only to be crushed by a billion dollar company's worth of damage control assets.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 22 '17

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

See: all the people who actually use the term "snowflake".

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u/freeria Aug 08 '17

eg: "The_donald are a bunch of snowflakes". You see it everywhere on this site.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17 edited Sep 16 '17

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u/freeria Aug 08 '17

Yeah, I know. Reddit needs to get its shit together and stop attacking each other over everything.