The infamous Google Diversity Memo - Author Fired

[anaconda]

Not an Onion story: Google actually has an employee with the title "Vice President of Diversity, Integrity, and Governance." She seems to have doubled down in condemning the viral treatise.

https://qz.com/1047826/googles-resp...s-a-classic-conversation-avoidance-technique/

 

[Anti Federalist]

CalExit, please.

 

[specsaregood]

I wouldn't want to own google stock, the people at the helm now are not the people that got the company to its current place in the industry.

"In the first interview of the series, a Google employee (alias “Hal”) speaks of witch-hunts and intolerance at Google, as well as dysfunction at the company’s upper echelons"

Hal: A lot of social justice activists essentially spend all day fighting the culture war, and get nothing done. The company has made it a point to hire more people like this. The diversity gospel has been woven into nearly everything the company does, to the point where senior leaders focus on diversity first and technology second. The companywide “Google Insider” emails used to talk about cool new tech, but now they’re entirely about social justice initiatives. Likewise, the weekly all-hands “TGIF” meetings used to focus on tech, but now they’re split about 50/50 between tech and identity politics signaling

 

[Anti Federalist]

The companywide “Google Insider” emails used to talk about cool new tech, but now they’re entirely about social justice initiatives. Likewise, the weekly all-hands “TGIF” meetings used to focus on tech, but now they’re split about 50/50 between tech and identity politics signaling

That explains why every other day their Screwgle doodle is some obscure woman or "person of color".

Or flying the fa g flag.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Not an Onion story: Google actually has an employee with the title "Vice President of Diversity, Integrity, and Governance." She seems to have doubled down in condemning the viral treatise.

https://qz.com/1047826/googles-resp...s-a-classic-conversation-avoidance-technique/

Most every major US company now has one, or more.

 

[TheCount]

In before alt-right feels are more important than a company's ability to hire and fire as it pleases.

 

[juleswin]

In before alt-right feels are more important than a company's ability to hire and fire as it pleases.

At the hospital that I work at, if you talk about starting a union, you will get fired instantly. They have zero tolerance for that and I am OK with it. They pay well, the benefits are fantastic and I don't even have to pay dues to get it.

I am sure some liberal feeling are hurt and I am also OK with that

 

[shakey1]

 

[Danke]

At the hospital that I work at, if you talk about starting a union, you will get fired instantly. They have zero tolerance for that and I am OK with it. They pay well, the benefits are fantastic and I don't even have to pay dues to get it.

I am sure some liberal feeling are hurt and I am also OK with that

Illegal. I'm sure the company will say the reason for firing is something else.

 

[specsaregood]

At the hospital that I work at, if you talk about starting a union, you will get fired instantly. They have zero tolerance for that and I am OK with it. They pay well, the benefits are fantastic and I don't even have to pay dues to get it.

I am sure some liberal feeling are hurt and I am also OK with that

DW loves her nurses union. I'm not a fan of unions in general, but for her job/workplace it fits. Of course, she is about the only nurse there that has actually read and understands their contract and regularly informs her coworkers of what their rights are under its terms. One of her new bosses tried screwing with her recently, she informed them that they were in breach of the contract and asked for her union rep. They apologized and stopped screwing with her immediately.

 

[juleswin]

Illegal. I'm sure the company will say the reason for firing is something else.

Yea, I don't think it is company's website but that is what the manager of my unit told me. And I don't think she would lie to me.

 

[juleswin]

DW loves her nurses union. I'm not a fan of unions in general, but for her job/workplace it fits. Of course, she is about the only nurse there that has actually read and understands their contract and regularly informs her coworkers of what their rights are under its terms. One of her new bosses tried screwing with her recently, she informed them that they were in breach of the contract and asked for her union rep. They apologized and stopped screwing with her immediately.

Who is DW? and am I supposed to know him/her? we have panels made up of other nurses that look out for our interest but we don't have a union. I have never worked in a unionized hospital so I have nothing to compare it with. I can laugh off now about not having a union until the hospital screws me but just from my experience so far, its been all good.

 

[specsaregood]

Who is DW? and am I supposed to know him/her?

https://www.lifewire.com/what-does-dh-stand-for-2483182

 

[helmuth_hubener]

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has fired an employee who wrote an internal memo blasting the web company’s diversity policies, creating a firestorm across Silicon Valley.

Phew! The cat's back in the bag.
The Progress Train's back on dem tracks!
These racist, sexist truths shan't virate,
Those blissful normies won't learn facts.

 

[helmuth_hubener]

https://basicgestalt.wordpress.com/...-damore-the-only-set-of-balls-left-at-google/

 

[brushfire]

https://www.lifewire.com/what-does-dh-stand-for-2483182

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Most every major US company now has one, or more.

Whole groups now. Running around hysterically hunting witches and the outrage of the day.

It's a shame Sinead O'Conner hasn't found her true calling. She could be a VP.

 

[euphemia]

On the business side, a lot of companies have a disclaimer at the bottom of every email or text that basically says the communication is only for the person for which it was intended, and is not for publication or whatever. In that respect, publishing the memo is a big risk. There is probably a policy in the employee handbook if the employee had bothered to read it.

He makes excellent points, but I think he should have posted them as a stand-alone piece rather than as a response to a work memo.

 

[dannno]

Low value, disinformation post:

In before alt-right feels are more important than a company's ability to hire and fire as it pleases.

How about, in before someone conflates using first amendment to complain about company's policies and bringing up important issues with telling a company who they can hire and fire, on a LIBERTARIAN messageboard no less??

Oh, sorry too late..

 

[euphemia]

Danno, you and I think as reasonable, logical liberty people, realizing liberty extends to all, not just to us. I know in the last two places I've worked, there were clearly defined policy about sharing internal information and publications. If I published such a memo with my own responses, I would be fired, and properly so.

Libertarians need to think less responsively and more proactively. The writer's responses were very sane and logical, but they would have been stronger as a stand alone post rather than setting up Google to be the bad guy, as if they are they only ones. Liberty principles are broad and apply to everyone, not just Google.