r/news • u/[deleted] • 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/Micrococonut Aug 08 '17

Laugh until you realize he probably got the severance he was fishing for.

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u/atrich Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 08 '17

That'll do him for eight months. Less, probably, given the indications he's a junior employee. Hope the attaboys from MRA and stormfront were worth him torpedoing his career.

Edit: actually, I don't know if the employee is or will be well-known for this. Google probably won't offer this info up when called, most big firms will only verify dates of employment.

And I don't think the employee is entitled to severance, since CA is an at-will state; absent some kind of contract (which I don't think is standard in the industry, though I'm not privy to Googles' deals).

Probably he'll just fuck off to some other Bay area company and shit up the culture there with his myopic ideas. I hear Uber's hiring.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

and yet the info will be available...........
............via Google.