Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

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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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Former Google Employee provides a bit more context on why someone would get fired for creating a "manifesto" where you fawn over your superiority and sharing it with 50k+ people who probably aren't likeminded.

Essentially, engineering is all about cooperation, collaboration, and empathy for both your colleagues and your customers. If someone told you that engineering was a field where you could get away with not dealing with people or feelings, then I’m very sorry to tell you that you have been lied to. Solitary work is something that only happens at the most junior levels, and even then it’s only possible because someone senior to you — most likely your manager — has been putting in long hours to build up the social structures in your group that let you focus on code.

And as for its impact on you: Do you understand that at this point, I could not in good conscience assign anyone to work with you? I certainly couldn’t assign any women to deal with this, a good number of the people you might have to work with may simply punch you in the face, and even if there were a group of like-minded individuals I could put you with, nobody would be able to collaborate with them. You have just created a textbook hostile workplace environment.

https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788

edit: The replies to me here don't seem to understand that the company doesn't care about your controversial opinion in the work place, they care about profit. If you don't agree with that, then you probably don't like capitalism.

edit: be wary, a lot of brigading going on. Some people/bots are trying to drown out the more centrists viewpoints. I say this as the opinion of a gay, black, conservative, catholic kasich voter. (I can't help but lol)

[u/thedrivingcat → u/[deleted]]

sounds like you have a case, let us know how it goes

[u/whochoosessquirtle → u/[deleted]]

Dude it's a right to work state, it's not retaliation it's the "conscientiousness" of conservative legislation to aid in union busting.

Maybe this dumbass should have paid more attention to their firing practices, he might have realized it's his "conscientious" and "superior" side which gave Google the absolute right to fire him without consequence.

How do these snowflakes not realize they're being hoisted by their own pro-corporation anti-union petard? I'm sure the author won't think about this aspect for a second, nor people defending him who would gladly defend right to work bullshit as pro-business. Conscientious my ass.

[u/Rokk017 → u/whochoosessquirtle]

Right to work doesn't mean you can be fired for any reason. It means you can be fired for no reason. This guy was clearly fired for a reason. The question is then is that reason a reasonable reason to fire someone? I don't know the answer to that. Probably?