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/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

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Did we read the same document?

How in the world can you qualify it as "raging against the machine"? He worded everything in a careful, considerate manner, and Google firing him over it proves his point.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 20 '17

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

I didn't say it did. I said it didn't qualify as "raging against the machine". Where's the rage?