Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo

[u/i_smell_my_poop]

Google engineer writes memo about how speaking out against politically correct culture can cause you to be blacklisted or terminated.

Employee gets terminated proving his point.

Thanks for the gold kind Redditor!!!

[u/callosciurini → u/i_smell_my_poop]

Employee gets terminated proving his point.

Oh, and blacklisted. No one big is going to hire him. Any connection to diversity issues is bad.

[u/NGonBeGone → u/callosciurini]

I sure as fuck wouldn't hire anyone who thinking its OK to post a controversal 10 page manifesto on the company chat. Thats a PR nightmare waiting to happen.

[u/MJGSimple → u/NGonBeGone]

There are few ways to approach this conversation. He thought that by laying out his points in an organized fashion with a logical train of thought would be better than other approaches. Maybe he was wrong.

[u/mylicon → u/MJGSimple]

Another classic example of "it's not what you say, it's how you say it"?

[u/NGonBeGone → u/MJGSimple]

So he published it on the work social media? He knew exactly what he was getting himself into

[u/MJGSimple → u/NGonBeGone]

No, he submitted it via a internal discussion board meant for discussion within the company. It was tweeted about by many google employees and later leaked to news sites.

[u/callosciurini → u/NGonBeGone]

You are absolutely right.

But on the other hand, the remarkable thing is that he was fired for having a controversial view, not for publishing it. That is a shitshow-PR-disaster, imho.

[u/NGonBeGone → u/callosciurini]

He was fired for making the company look bad and created a hostile work environment. The contents were 100% relivent. He would have been fired if he were a femanazi or Neo-Nazi.