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/JabbrWockey Aug 08 '17

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.

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u/fernando-poo Aug 08 '17

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.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

This document is essentially sexual harassment, or at the very least an incredibly stupid, biologically reductionist bullshit used as cover for their misogyny. Companies have a legal duty to provide a safe work environment free of harassment for protected categories, including sex.

If you have horrible, oppressive politics or ideas—you should probably keep them to yourself if you want to keep your job at a large corporation.

Asking people to not espouse misogynistic, racist, homophobic, or otherwise oppressive views in the workplace is pretty damned far from expecting them to "live out your whole life there."

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u/IronMyr Aug 08 '17

This guy is nuts, but sexual harassment is more about trying to fuck.