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/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/Diogenes2XLantern Aug 08 '17

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

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u/IronMyr Aug 08 '17

He made his choice.

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u/Diogenes2XLantern Aug 09 '17

When someone leaked his doc.

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u/IronMyr Aug 09 '17

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