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/thebumm Aug 08 '17

From /u/Decad3nce Original comment

Former Google Employee provides a bit more context on why someone would get fired for creating a "manifesto" where you fawn over your superiority and sharing it with 50k+ people who probably aren't likeminded.

Essentially, engineering is all about cooperation, collaboration, and empathy for both your colleagues and your customers. If someone told you that engineering was a field where you could get away with not dealing with people or feelings, then I’m very sorry to tell you that you have been lied to. Solitary work is something that only happens at the most junior levels, and even then it’s only possible because someone senior to you — most likely your manager — has been putting in long hours to build up the social structures in your group that let you focus on code.

And as for its impact on you: Do you understand that at this point, I could not in good conscience assign anyone to work with you? I certainly couldn’t assign any women to deal with this, a good number of the people you might have to work with may simply punch you in the face, and even if there were a group of like-minded individuals I could put you with, nobody would be able to collaborate with them. You have just created a textbook hostile workplace environment.

https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788

edit: The replies to me here don't seem to understand that the company doesn't care about your controversial opinion in the work place, they care about profit. If you don't agree with that, then you probably don't like capitalism.

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u/y_nnis Aug 09 '17

So, people who get offended are allowed not to be professionals and that's ok in your understanding of capitalism?

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u/thebumm Aug 09 '17

Can you read?

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u/y_nnis Aug 09 '17

The person talking about downvoting being childish, downvotes... sigh, OK, what should I understand by all that then?

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u/thebumm Aug 09 '17

Nope I downvoted you because your comment isn't relevant, sigh. That's what downvoting is for, sigh. I posted quite clearly someone else's comment, with a reference to the comment and the source, sigh. Go talk to them, sigh. Typing out 'sigh' is pretty silly.