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At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment and Bias Complaints (bloomberg.com)
A group of Google employees have begun a message board for employees to submit worker complaints that's then emailed weekly as a digest, according to a report on Bloomberg. The email list -- called "Yes, at Google" -- has been around since October and allows employees to talk openly about work situations in which they felt uncomfortable; most submissions are anonymized. From the article: Google management is aware of the list. "We work really hard to promote and preserve a culture of respect and inclusion," a Google spokesperson said in a statement. "Our employees have numerous ways to raise issues -- both negative and positive -- with us, including through grassroots transparency efforts like this one. We take concerns seriously and take appropriate measures to address them." The list is run by a group of workers across different product areas, according to a person familiar with the list, though it's not clear who runs the list and how or whether the submissions are vetted before being distributed. Usually, the people in the complaints are not named, though one submission described an instance when, during a large company meeting in late April, Alphabet Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt allegedly interrupted Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat when she had a question addressed to her, which the post categorized as a "gender-related" complaint. A person who attended the meeting said Schmidt answered the question to make a joke. Messages sometimes include job titles and other details.
This is a trap, they just want to fire people that try to report rape.
>gender-related
I'd rather be unemployed than work with people who have nothing better to do than either harass others or keep tabs on harassment. I mean, really, just fuck off, all of you!
Remember, bias in metrics of job performance are a function of reviewer bias and the quality of work from the person being reviewed. Clearly the bias is mostly due to quotas resulting in most of the female programmers and engineers being less qualified than their male counterparts. This is intuitive and no further evidence of this is required.
ref: B.A ... R.B.A. (obscure references, it was the mid/late 90's)
mob-justice.
Not surprised.
Companies can have all the friendly, inclusive policies they want - but the problem is that people have to follow them. Larger companies have more people, and the odds of having a sociopath or other ethics-adverse person in a management role increases.
If you have a manager who wants to discriminate against you - they will. Smarter people will find ways to squeak under/within the rules. Sociopaths have the added skill of patience. It may take a year to screw you over, but they will put in the effort.
From my unpleasant experience, the only proper way to handle harassment and discrimination is to leave. HR is there to protect the company from lawsuits. That's it. My harassment got markedly worse after contacting HR. Boss & his boss had the nerve to tell me "you should never have contacted HR." A lawyer told me I had a good case, but would take 2+ years and limited payout. Best bet was to get a new job.
Yet another social justice story. Slashdot is being reduce to a propaganda machine for totalitarian leftists, churning out non-story after non-story to suit SJWs.
Have fun cratering your investment the same way DC comics cratered theirs.
Hint to the mono-maniacs whose lives have been reduced to a hamster wheel of rightthink- everyone hates you for a reason.
What a way to live
Not nearly good enough, you misogynerds! It's all the fault, collectively and severally, of you inferior beings who can't give birth to a child that there are no womyn-born-womyn in tech careers!
Nothing is good enough until the womyn-born-womyn programmers start precipitating out of the æther!
To report that Sergey Brin fucks goats. I'm glad we can have open discussion and disclosure of such useful information.
hahahahahahahahah get fucked google! All you fucking leftist pieces of shit GET FUCKED BY YOUR OWN BULLSHIT!
The existence of a list like this was motivated by unmet needs for company oversight and review of workplace conduct between employees. Google's policy for controlling and eliminating harassment is inadequate because their employees say it is.
While I know the list is usually anonymous, this kind of thing seems like it could potentially morph into a trial by mod situations. I'm not sure allegations alone are enough for something so serious. I'm not sure any serious HR org would discipline an employee on a single accusation.
It's ironic that this list is supposed to report harassment but is essentially a list of high-school-tier rumors.
Seems the whiny little bitches move more towards 100% of the work force.
Worked more like this
That someone feels the need to complain to an entire company about a verbal interruption is laughable.
The fact that there is a public list created and maintained specifically for complaining about other workers is absurd.
he fact that Bloomberg pats Google on the back for such undertaking borers on insanity.
Anyone who is familiar with basic human psychology and dynamics of large organizations should immediately see that such a list is a patently idiotic idea. Just to list one of out many, many problems with such an idea: every large corporation has its share of office politics, rivalries and dysfunctional employees. The list creates a giant force multiplier to be (ab)used by any sociopath with an agenda. And if your company has enough legitimate harassment cases to generate a weekly email, it's guaranteed you have plenty of sociopaths to worry about.
> ...the men's restrooms in the San Francisco offices have menstruation products to accommodate men who have periods.
Employee has to post something every time he hears that his group is "overrepresented", or - if he or she is white - that his or her group has "too much power", or - if he is a man - complains about "patriarchy" or "wage gap". It can be fun!