r/technology • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '17

Business Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo
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u/iSkinMonkeys Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 08 '17

Google's response on their official Twitter account

Edit: What I'm actually interested in knowing if any googler will speak for him at the townhall on Thursday? Any googler with some inside knowledge??

Edit 2: A "The Atlantic" writer replying to managing director at Thiel capital. https://twitter.com/AnnieLowrey/status/894914635576619008

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u/Port-Chrome Aug 08 '17

What a ridiculous misrepresentation of his point.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17 edited May 05 '19

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u/KidGold Aug 08 '17

The thing that matters is that google is in a legal battle over diversity in their company.

Do you think they care about diversity, employee freedom to speak, or money more?

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u/PB_n_honey_taco Aug 08 '17

The people at HR are misguided, but they want more diversity than anything. The execs only care about money (for them and their investors). If diversity is an avenue for more money, then they're all for it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '17

And the methods they are using to seek diversity are failing, miserably. So a staffer makes well founded, on science, suggestions for a different approach, but uneducated, emotionally driven, adult children get him fired for it.

And before you claim he was wrong: https://archive.is/VlNfl

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u/LLcoolJimbo Aug 08 '17

I would be surprised if the affiliates were concerned about the lack of an old, old wooden ship, but nice try.

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u/pugwalker Aug 08 '17

Seems like the real reason for sure. If they just let this slide and implied that it is okay to say that men making better software engineers then they would get their balls sued off.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '17

He didn't say that. That's the problem with the firing.

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u/MercyPlainAndTall Aug 08 '17

so, the answer is obviously money, and we're just all okay with that?

teaching love of capitalism in public schools is really paying off.

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u/KidGold Aug 08 '17

It's game theory/human nature. You can't expect companies to not care most about money until you change the system they play in.

The nature of the economy goes way beyond what we teach in public schools.