Posted on 08/08/2017 6:53:27 AM PDT by C19fan
Google employee James Damore has been reportedly fired for “perpetuating gender stereotypes.” The senior software engineer authored a 10-page “manifesto” condemning Google’s diversity efforts and claiming men are biologically more predisposed to working in the tech industry than women. In an internal memo to Google employees, CEO Sundar Pichai says he has cut his family vacation short to return to work and tackle the issues raised in the manifesto.
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Looks like Mr. Pichai has doublethink down pat.
First, let me say that we strongly support the right of Googlers to express themselves, and much of what was in that memo is fair to debate, regardless of whether a vast majority of Googlers disagree with it.
The guy was still fired.
At the same time, there are co-workers who are questioning whether they can safely express their views in the workplace (especially those with a minority viewpoint). They too feel under threat, and that is also not OK. People must feel free to express dissent.
The guy was still fired
I’d encourage each of you to make an effort over the coming days to reach out to those who might have different perspectives from your own. I will be doing the same.
But if we don't like what you said you too will be fired.
Again, the movie The Circle nails this perfectly, the groupthink liberal mentality.
And they even LIE durin gtheir explanations...
He did not say “men are biologically more predisposed” he said that gender disparities DO NOT ALWAYS MEAN sexism.
Ok, so Google creates a Hostile Work Environment, a Whistleblower publicly outs Google as a company that perpetuates a Hostile Work Environment, then they FIRE the whistleblower.
Sounds like one Hell of a Wrongful Termination and Discrimination Lawsuit to me.
Sounds like a good time for a female to launch a sex discrimination suit against Google. After all, their engineers are 80% male - clear evidence of sex discrimination, once the explanation that Google is now on the record as officially denying is not available as a defense.
They got a lot of money too. Maybe a class action suit with numbers in the hundreds of billions might wake them up.
They can fire anyone at will.
Don’t like it, but a company is not forced to employ him.
Don’t like it, but a company is not forced to employ him.
As a matter of philosophy, I agree with you. As a practical matter, I say that every means to hurt them as badly as possible should be employed against them.
Google is an evil monster that needs to be brought low, by any means available.
Google-NSA and the feds being lobbied by Google means they are not a completely private entity imo.
Google encouraged employees to share their opinions. This guy shared his opinion and did so in an intelligent, thoughtful, and sensitive way.
Then he gets canned.
I would be very much in favor of Congress crafting a law which made it a federal crime to fire someone for expressing a personal opinion, no matter how offensive.
So long as that person made it clear that it was his/her opinion and the opinion did not involve encouraging violence, expressing that opinion should not endanger a person's career.
OTOH, people who say they are unable to work with someone else because they don't like, or feel threatened, by someone else's expressed opinions should be fired on the spot.
Google reminds me of the Borg....
If you post something on Facebook/whatever, and post something about your employer, don’t be surprised if you get canned.
Many companies are moving to restrict your private use of social media. If a potential customer sees you like X and makes a fuss, what will your boss do?
I just rented it on your recommendation.
....I’d encourage each of you to make an effort over the coming days to reach out to those who might have different perspectives from your own. I will be doing the same...
Does that include Trump supporters who work for Google, like my relative?
Blacklisting someone from from future employment is illegal in California and some managers at Google are bragging about doing it. This guy will have a big payday.
Thanks. I hope you enjoy it.
Once the truth has been written and disseminated, it cannot be forced back into the box.
This debate will rage at Google...and all of corporate America for another couple of decades. It will be the subject of innumerable university studies and government studies.
And everyone who holds the view of this software engineer will be shunned and punished.
It will be the war on truth. It’s what the left does.
“Don’t like it, but a company is not forced to employ him.”
Correct.
However, as soon as a company states a REASON for termination they open themselves up to wrongful termination suits...especially if they are a big company.
Certainly if a person castigates his own company in a public forum then that would be cause for firing. However, this guy wasn't castigating Google. He was encouraging Google to follow their own code and be more ethical. And he did it on a private forum within the company. Someone else published it without his permission.
I imagine it wouldn't take them that long to reverse engineer every login at FreeRepublic and attach them to real persons.
I would not last long at Google.
Have to think this wasn't addressed in the employee handbook or any potential contract. Wonder if this guys got a wrongful termination case? Be entertaining to see this absurdity drug through the media some more.
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