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Black, deaf Google worker who was touted as diversity success story sues tech giant for discrimination
NY Post ^ | March 14, 2024 | Alyona Uvarova

Posted on 03/14/2024 4:35:33 PM PDT by Robwin

A black, deaf Google employee – who had been celebrated at corporate events and on social media as a success story for the search giant’s inclusive workplace – has accused the company of discrimination based on her disability and race.

In an explosive lawsuit filed in the US Northern District of California, Jalon Hall — the first and only black, deaf hire at Google, according to Wired — slammed Google for limiting her access to sign-language interpreters months after starting the job.

In the complaint, the worker painted Google’s management environment as hostile and racially charged.

She cited Google’s manager at the company’s machine-learning research program calling her an “aggressive black deaf woman” and advising her to “keep her mouth shut and take a sales role”. Google also excluded her from roundtable discussions and passed her over for promotion due to “inaccurate evaluation” after three years, according to the suit.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: discrimination; google; goolag
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To: monkeyshine

Does she play a mean pin ball?


41 posted on 03/15/2024 5:26:53 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Robwin

Yep
Hire a ticking time bomb and eventually it will blow up in your face...


42 posted on 03/15/2024 5:35:01 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: Robwin
"...the first and only black, dwarf, lesbian, deaf hire..."

"Oh, the irony! How delicious."

Gosh, with a better agent; she should have been "White House Press Secretary".

Then we'd need two of these:

One for the press; and, one for the press secretary...

43 posted on 03/15/2024 2:29:49 PM PDT by guest7
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To: metmom
"This article portrays her as fully deaf with no options for implants or hearing aids. There's a lot of information missing here."

Exactly. What if she has a very "Progressive Abnormality"; she can't hear "white people"?

Amanda Seales GIF by smartfunnyandblack

44 posted on 03/15/2024 2:43:16 PM PDT by guest7
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