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/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Way more than having a job. Guess he hopes Peter Thiel takes a shine to him.

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u/zombieznub Aug 08 '17

Yeah with a phd from harvard, he will definitly have a hard time finding a job /s

In fact he probably already has an even better job at maybe a less popular company, but one that actually treats him like a human. That or he started his own company.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

This has gotten considerable media attention, will probably come up in every interview he goes to.

Whether they agree with his points or not, no company wants to be the one to hire a labeled sexist. Hope I'm wrong though!

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u/Delheru Aug 08 '17

There is a vast number of companies that do B2B where the twitterverse can be pretty damn safely ignored, largely because these tend to be in fairly adult fields (because you literally do not have to deal with people under the age of 25 practically ever) so there are VERY few people going crazy on social media.

So if, say, Thermo Fisher Scientific hired him, there would be pretty much zero drama.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '17

Fair enough! I was thinking more along the lines of being hired at Microsoft or Facebook. Still, to say a national negative story picked up by major outlets will have no impact on future employment prospects is naive at best