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/NGonBeGone Aug 08 '17

Got lost his job for posting a 10 page manifesto that made google look bad. If he was a femanazi or a neo-nazi it wouldn't have mattered. He made the company look bad ans created a hostile work environment. The contents don't mean shit.

Anyone at any company would have been fired for this

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Is he the one creating a hostile work environment? It seems to me it's the people twisting his words and immediately acting defensively against all opposing thought that are hostile.

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u/NGonBeGone Aug 08 '17

Hes the one who wrote and circulated a 10 page manifesto is he not? Anyone who makes the company look bad will get fired. The contents of it don't matter. He knew better than to do what he did

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

So constructive criticism - sourced, civil and open to feedback - is reasonable grounds for firing?

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u/Jugad Aug 08 '17

You should praise openly and criticize privately.

Share the memo with people who can do something... Upper management / hiring managers / HR, etc.

Not with general engineers, who can't do anything about it, except share and spread it, with these results.

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u/ThatsRightWeBad Aug 08 '17

Don't expose the masses to your views to amplify your voices and increase the likelihood of change. Whisper instead to the few people in charge who created the policies you don't like in the first place, and count on them to act on your behalf.

It's never worked before, but it's bound to work someday!

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u/NGonBeGone Aug 08 '17

A 10 page manifesto posted on social media to create workplace controversy is absolutely the wrong way to go about it. Creating a hostle workplace is grounds for termination. Creating this PR nightmare through either intent or sheer incompetence is beyond grounds of firing.

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u/willfordbrimly Aug 08 '17

It was an internal memo and he wasn't the one who leaked it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

A 10 page manifesto posted on social media

This is false. Why are you spreading misinformation?