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Google May Be In Trouble For Firing James Damore (inc.com)
Google fired engineer James Damore after he wrote a 10-page document about "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber." taustin writes from a report via Inc. about the potential legal trouble the company may face from firing the "anti-diversity" engineer: Whether Demore is right or wrong, whether one agrees with him or not, Google may have legal trouble for firing him. Employees are protected by federal law when they discuss working conditions with other employees (and this was an internal memo). His memo could be considered whistleblowing, which is also protected (and it is very clear that he was fired as retribution). And, in California, political opinions are protected in the work place as well. Just because one side is wrong doesn't mean the other side is right.
It's not whisteblowing (he didn't claim illegal activity really), and while you can say he was discussing working conditions, another group of people claim that it represents harassment, and the latter argument seems likely to prevail. He might have had a better chance if he didn't outright claim that women were inherently not cut out for those jobs and instead just stuck to complaining about diversity being too highly prioritized and that the culture was suppressing any criticism of that.
In general, if you write a '10 page manifesto' about anything, you are probably going to come off as a nutjob and probably won't go well for you professionally.
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Just because one side is wrong doesn't mean the other side is right.
Gotta love that unbiased, non-judgmental journalistic addition. I mean, of course Mr. Damore was in the wrong, right? How dare he internally reveal concerns for company direction... especially with wrong ideas.
By the way, all of you defending what he wrote, you're wrong too. Remember, everything is racist, everything is sexist.
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Google didn't do any of that. They fired him because he said that women are inferior engineers and dismissed the issues they face as biology. Since Google has a system where employees are involved in evaluating each other, and he was in some kind of managerial position with power over others, that made his position untenable.
Google couldn't expect other employees to accept being evaluated by him or working under him after that. It almost looks like he martyred himself, based on the precision with which he made his job unworkable.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
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Can't read that paper for free, but did you notice how all they claim is a correlation? Not a cause, just a correlation.
The cause is the important bit. I don't mean the testosterone, I mean why does pre-natal exposure to it cause this correlation later in life on this particular test? And can we make education and testing less a measure of pre-natal exposure to testosterone and more a measure of Java programming ability, or are the two somehow the same thing in which case is it all computer languages, or computers themselves, and what can we do about that, if anything?
At best this raises further questions. It doesn't prove what you think it proves.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Both are political issues, but that's irrelevant in this case. The issue is not that his views are political, it's that he created a hostile work environment and made his job, which includes evaluating other employees, impossible for him to perform as the content of the memo would be used to question every criticism and decision he made.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC