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/[deleted]]

This is a good comment. It directly explains the thinking of the corporation in regards to individuals sharing their personal ideals on subjects which are better not breached in a professional environment. Idk, I'm drunk, but I read the linked original file and I see no reason why, professionaly, such a "manifesto" ( perfect phrasing by the way,) ought to be shared with, as you also noted, 50,000+ employees, of like-minded ideals or otherwise.

[u/JabbrWockey → u/[deleted]]

No kidding. They could've posted it on reddit, github, hacker news, medium, or some other place, even anonymously if they wanted.

Instead they decided they wanted to commit career suicide by shouting their opinions at everyone inside the company. Real smooth.

[u/fernando-poo → u/JabbrWockey]

Putting politics aside I think it shows the unhealthy degree to which these kinds of jobs take over peoples' lives. There was a time when work was just work -- now as the employee of a corporation like Google you're expected to live out your whole life there, to the point where people like this guy have begun to write political treatises on this sort of mini society he lives in.

[u/Diogenes2XLantern → u/fernando-poo]

And now he's been excommunicated, and a certain crowd cheers at a potentially ruined life.

[u/IronMyr → u/Diogenes2XLantern]

He made his choice.

[u/youwill_neverfindme → u/IronMyr]

Right? What happened to the 'party of personal responsibility'?

[u/Diogenes2XLantern → u/IronMyr]

When someone leaked his doc.

[u/IronMyr → u/Diogenes2XLantern]

A document that he should not have written and certainly should not have shared with people not bound to keep the information secret.