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re: This woman was fired from Google for "sending an email" and she's pissed

Posted on 12/4/20 at 5:28 pm to
Posted by hob
Member since Dec 2017
2386 posts
Posted on 12/4/20 at 5:28 pm to
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She worked for Google, publishes a research paper about a Google product, and then asked by Google to either remove paper or “remove her name and the names of the other Google employees.”


Seems reasonable. I find the story lacking details.

Most tech companies have an internal review process that all papers submitted for external presentation or publication must pass prior to submission. The review is usually technical and legal.
Posted by PhilipMarlowe
Member since Mar 2013
21922 posts
Posted on 12/4/20 at 5:39 pm to
Lol, broad played herself.
Posted by GetCocky11
Calgary, AB
Member since Oct 2012
53509 posts
Posted on 12/4/20 at 5:49 pm to
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This woman was fired from Google for


Looks to me like she quit
This post was edited on 12/4/20 at 5:50 pm
Posted by IAmNERD
Member since May 2017
24238 posts
Posted on 12/4/20 at 6:50 pm to
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We cannot agree to #1 and #2 as you are requesting. We respect your decision to leave Google as a result, and we are accepting your resignation.”

I'll suspend my animosity towards Google long enough to stand and give them a slow clap on this one.
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
35494 posts
Posted on 12/4/20 at 6:55 pm to
She’s claiming her employer censored her? Do these POS POC idiots not think workplace rules apply to them?

Her work product is owned by Google and they can censor it all they want.
Posted by SeeeeK
some where
Member since Sep 2012
30763 posts
Posted on 12/4/20 at 7:21 pm to
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So Google can’t handle criticism of the way they approach hiring minorities? Lmao.


yeah, that's why she got fired.LOL

Posted by Amadeo
Member since Jan 2004
4893 posts
Posted on 12/4/20 at 7:23 pm to
That was actually badass the way Google handled that situation.
Posted by BoardReader
Arkansas
Member since Dec 2007
7393 posts
Posted on 12/4/20 at 7:47 pm to
Those woke assholes deserve to be the target of their own medicine; you can never be Woke Enough for the mob, they'll just lynch you a little later than the rest- so bargaining with them like Google has, deserves every bit of the comeuppance they get for trying to satisfy these people.
Posted by SeeeeK
some where
Member since Sep 2012
30763 posts
Posted on 12/4/20 at 7:50 pm to
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NYT


It's where i go for the true story.
Posted by Penrod
Member since Jan 2011
55508 posts
Posted on 12/4/20 at 7:55 pm to
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They had piles and piles of documentation outlining the just firing, but nevertheless, the company ended up settling with her for $10K.

My company had massive layoffs this spring/summer due to CV-19 and the oil bust. A handful of AAs were caught up in it. We pretty much have to pay about $20 k to make those go away. Whites and Asians get nothing of course.
Posted by ClientNumber9
Member since Feb 2009
10108 posts
Posted on 12/4/20 at 8:42 pm to
If I ran a company I would never hire a black person for this reason alone. If you have to part ways one day, which will likely be the case as few people work for the same company for 40 years anymore, it'll probably end with a lawsuit.
Posted by Fat and Happy
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2013
19954 posts
Posted on 12/4/20 at 8:56 pm to
So is this one of those cases that without even knowing what’s up, sides should be taken based off the fact that she is saying she was let go over being a minority female?
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
35494 posts
Posted on 12/4/20 at 9:59 pm to
She sent out a bitchy email to a list that included non-management employees.


quote:

Timnit Gebru, a technical co-lead of Google's Ethical A.I. team, who researches algorithmic bias and data mining, has been an outspoken advocate for diversity in technology, claimed, in a series of tweets, she was fired for refusing to retract a research paper that outlines how A.I. discriminates against minorities and also due to a complaint in an email to colleagues.


quote:


"Thanks for making your conditions clear. We cannot agree to #1 and #2 as you are requesting. We respect your decision to leave Google as a result, and we are accepting your resignation.

"However, we believe the end of your employment should happen faster than your email reflects because certain aspects of the email you sent last night to non-management employees in the brain group reflect behavior that is inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager.

"As a result, we are accepting your resignation immediately, effective today. We will send your final paycheck to your address in Workday. When you return from your vacation, PeopleOps will reach out to you to coordinate


She had also already sued Google at least once. She was just a pain in the arse employee and they were just waiting for her to break a rule so they could fire her.
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I was in the middle of a potential lawsuit for which Kat Herller and I hired feminist lawyers who threatened to sue Google (which is when they backed off--before that Google lawyers were prepared to throw us under the bus and our leaders were following as instructed) and the next day I get some random "impact award." Pure gaslighting.






Here is a better article
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
Premium Member
Member since Jan 2005
80855 posts
Posted on 12/4/20 at 10:08 pm to
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Those woke a-holes deserve to be the target of their own medicine; you can never be Woke Enough for the mob,
.
That's why this is a Two Red Buttons scenario for me.
Posted by rintintin
Life is Life
Member since Nov 2008
17062 posts
Posted on 12/4/20 at 10:17 pm to
Ever seen the movie Parasite? These type of people are parasites and are a better representation of reality.

Their livelihood is built on searching how to be a victim and how to profit off of it.

Unfortunately our society is tripping over themselves to champion these types of people and have no problem fully obliging them.
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
35494 posts
Posted on 12/4/20 at 10:28 pm to
Yea, frick these people.

I can’t imagine suing my employer and expecting to keep my job.

If one of my employees ever breathed the word “lawsuit” at me the would be fired immediately.
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
103998 posts
Posted on 12/5/20 at 1:28 pm to
The fricked up part is that the people making Parasite thought the people living off the family were the real victims and the successful family they leeched off of was the real parasite.
Posted by Free888
Member since Oct 2019
3273 posts
Posted on 12/5/20 at 1:56 pm to
It’s pretty dumb to put anything in an email to your company about threatening resignation, not returning to work, etc. The bar is pretty low about what constitutes a “formal” resignation.
Posted by tylercsbn9
Cypress, TX
Member since Feb 2004
66973 posts
Posted on 12/5/20 at 1:57 pm to
If woke google fired her then she must have been a shite employee
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
74846 posts
Posted on 12/5/20 at 2:37 pm to
Naw baw, I’m just not feeling it.

IWNHI

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