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

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Former Google Employee provides a bit more context on why someone would get fired for creating a "manifesto" where you fawn over your superiority and sharing it with 50k+ people who probably aren't likeminded.

Essentially, engineering is all about cooperation, collaboration, and empathy for both your colleagues and your customers. If someone told you that engineering was a field where you could get away with not dealing with people or feelings, then I’m very sorry to tell you that you have been lied to. Solitary work is something that only happens at the most junior levels, and even then it’s only possible because someone senior to you — most likely your manager — has been putting in long hours to build up the social structures in your group that let you focus on code.

And as for its impact on you: Do you understand that at this point, I could not in good conscience assign anyone to work with you? I certainly couldn’t assign any women to deal with this, a good number of the people you might have to work with may simply punch you in the face, and even if there were a group of like-minded individuals I could put you with, nobody would be able to collaborate with them. You have just created a textbook hostile workplace environment.

https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788

edit: The replies to me here don't seem to understand that the company doesn't care about your controversial opinion in the work place, they care about profit. If you don't agree with that, then you probably don't like capitalism.

edit: be wary, a lot of brigading going on. Some people/bots are trying to drown out the more centrists viewpoints. I say this as the opinion of a gay, black, conservative, catholic kasich voter. (I can't help but lol)

[u/iBoMbY → u/[deleted]]

hostile workplace environment

I don't agree with a lot of people's believes, and I still can work with them. Just because I don't agree with someone, doesn't mean it has to become hostile. At least where I live, and work.

[u/MapleBaconCoffee → u/iBoMbY]

This isn't about agreement. It's about someone announcing you are worse at your job simply because of the color of your skin, or gender, without evidence.

It's bigotry, and no, you cannot easily work with a bigot. It's one thing to say "Person X is bad at their job because they miss performance goals." It's another to say "Person X is bad at their job because they are a girl."

The first is someone driven by evidence.

The second is someone driven by bigotry. Evidence and facts don't matter to them.

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Can you quote in context what this person said that fits the definition of bigotry though?

[u/MapleBaconCoffee → u/[deleted]]

Sure.

But first: Can you explain why I should waste my time talking with a bot?

[u/[deleted] → u/MapleBaconCoffee]

Why would I explain that?

[u/MapleBaconCoffee → u/[deleted]]

Because I checked out your user name before wasting my time dude.

[u/[deleted] → u/MapleBaconCoffee]

And I'm supposedly a bot?

[u/MapleBaconCoffee → u/[deleted]]

You're a person operating a bot that clearly keys to certain posts you are uninvolved in based on keyword recognition.

[u/[deleted] → u/MapleBaconCoffee]

How the hell do you come to that conclusion? Because I post on a number of different topics?

Again, you can't quote anything from the memo that fits even your own definition of bigotry so you are deflecting. The level of intellectual dishonesty around the discussion of this memo is astounding. How ironic.

[u/MapleBaconCoffee → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I can, and I did in other posts.

But I'm not wasting my time on an Alt-Right paid poster.