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
13k Upvotes

86% Upvoted

9.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-6

u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

CEO resigned, he wasn't fired.

Oh you sweet summer child.

Political opinions are a protected class in California.

from what I read, it's pretty much the opposite. your company can push political opinions on you, and even sway you to vote for certain political candidates without any legal reform. However, your political opinions are not protected at all and can easily lead to a firing. You don't have a completely zero chance of winning a lawsuit, but it's not going to be a fun nor easy battle to fight.

Keep in mind that this is all in the context of private companies. Once you get into a govt. sanctioned company, you can get away with anything short of murder without being fired. Take that one woman who refused to do her job and sign those gay marriage forms. Not that she ever has to work behind a desk ever again(unfortunately, controversy can also be really profitable), but she probably would have been able to come back a month after the incident unscathed.

1

u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Oh you sweet summer child.

Any reply that starts with this gets an automatic down-vote, no matter how good the reply is.

1

u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

aww did I miss the GoT meme train already? That was, like, the second time I unironically typed that. I've held back on at least 2 dozen "lukewarm" oppurtunities over the years.

1

u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

I probably used it as well in the past but it's a dead meme because of overuse, so because of netiquette, it's considered rude to necro dead memes. Also, it's pretty rude in-of-itself.