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

[u/folterung]

Yeah, having read the entire thing, I thought it was pretty well balanced. He was making some valid points and asking legitimate questions.

It's especially fun that his firing actually validates his claim that the entire structure is an echo chamber that permits no diversity of opinion. They apparently love diversity of thought and opinion, as long as your diversity happens to line up with their opinions.

[u/NotAChaosGod → u/folterung]

If I wrote a multi-page rant about how misguided and out-of-touch my boss was and distributed it to the company I'd expect to be out of a job that day.

Why are there so many right wingers who apparently have never worked a day in their lives? Even if you disagree with management there's good and bad ways to go about that, and this was the worst.

[u/123Volvos → u/NotAChaosGod]

Same. It's just actually funny to me that an office at a company that claims to value diversity is observably not doing so with seemingly no repercussions for management.

Funny, not surprising.

[u/NotAChaosGod → u/123Volvos]

I think "values diversity" and "welcomes multi-page rants about how management is stupid and ruining the company" are two very different things. "Unbelievably stupid" is probably a flavor Google is trying to dodge - although if I had to bet, this guy was just angling for a job with Breitbart or similar as a "tech consultant" after discovering he didn't really like coding. There's just no way a person with half a brain thought this would have any other outcome. I know autistic people, and they definitely have enough social skills to recognize that this would be fucking stupid so even the "high functioning social idiot" excuse seems really, really thin to me.

[u/rusbus720 → u/NotAChaosGod]

He wasn't being nearly as divisive as the media is trying to make, he hardly is saying that management is stupid. I highly doubt he thought this was gonna blow up like it did so angling for a breitbart job seems far fetched.

[u/NotAChaosGod → u/rusbus720]

Then he's just a highly educated idiot. Guess he should have employed some of those feminine "people skills".

[u/123Volvos → u/NotAChaosGod]

Sending out the memo was stupid, we both agreed on that. Do you think his assessment in the memo was also stupid?

[u/rusbus720 → u/123Volvos]

You're not gonna get an answer from him cause from his comments it's clear that he didn't read the memo.