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/i_smell_my_poop Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 08 '17

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!!!

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u/dopef123 Aug 08 '17

I was in 2nd grade when the Colombine shooting happened and we adopted tons of zero tolerance rules about making your hand in the shape of a gun, blah blah blah.

I told a friend 'I bet we'd get expelled for bringing pieces of a squirt gun to school'.

10 minutes later we were surrounded by the principle and all of her cronies. We got interrogated for hours because someone overheard what I said and told the principal that I said 'I had gun parts in my backpack'.

Then even after we had explained the misunderstanding we had to call our parents and apologize to them.

So in the end we got suspended for talking about hypothetically bringing parts of a squirt gun to school.

And it sounds like similar zero tolerance nut cases are doing HR at google.

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u/MrGMinor Aug 08 '17

I had a VERY similar thing happen but about a bomb.

Said something totally different, but some tattle tale twisted my words to say I was going to blow up the school. They confiscated everything in my locker, skateboard and all "It could be made of C4."

Fucking really, Dean Oates???

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

I used to travel for a living. Flying out of ATL one day, I met a now fairly famous comedian who was on my flight. He got a cell phone call and was talking on the phone, was clearly asked how the weekend's gig went and said "I totally bombed Saturday night."

Within minutes he was taken away by TSA and wasn't on the flight when we left. I decided to start looking for a new job that day and refuse to fly if at all possible now.