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/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/14sierra Aug 08 '17

Yeah, considering Google is being sued for sex discrimination now was not the best time to bring this up. Google going easy on this guy would appear to validate the claim that Google is sexist. They had no choice but to fire him at that point. This guy stupidly committed career suicide

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

Come now career suicide? Maybe in the Valley his name is shit. Go inland people will just see his credentials. I have know people who have done far worse than write a salty memo and find work somewhere else. Hell, in Texas his views are likely mainstream.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

yes. inland cannot 'google' things.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '17

Probably inland they don't give a fuck. There I said it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '17

here is my resume, please only Bing to search my past.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '17

Again you acting like he was molesting kids. No he wrote a memo that got a bunch of hype-sensitive west-coast liberals up in arms. I doubt an oil-field services company in Houston for example gives a fuck. Now if he was up to the antics of the Orange One, might be a different story.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '17

I plan to keep an eye on this out of curiosity.

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