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Ex-Google Employee's Memo Says Executives Shut Down Pro-Diversity Discussions (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: A memo written by a former Google engineer claims that the company's human resources department and a senior vice president pressured him to stop discussing diversity initiatives on company forums, interactions that ultimately motivated him to leave the company. The document, which was written in 2016 and shared publicly this week, provides a striking counterpoint to allegations made by former Google employees James Damore and David Gudeman in a discrimination lawsuit filed against their former employer. Cory Altheide, the former employee who wrote the memo, began work as a security engineer at Google in 2010 and departed the company in January 2016. He recently published his account in a public Google document. Altheide posted several articles and comments to internal discussion groups that promoted diversity in the workplace and was chastised for doing so, he wrote.
Compare and contrast time.
One employee submitted a single post with supporting references as requested after a diversity seminar.
One employee started a thread on the company forum that was, at the time, off topic.
Much more serious that the difference in content or timing, is the difference of response.
To put it in a more sociable conversation version:
Google: John, what did you think of the movie?
John: Well, it had a number of flaws...
Google: I hate you, never talk to me again.
vs.
Google: Hi John.
John: Have you heard anything about [movie]? Well, skip it, everything as wrong, starting with...
Google: Calm down, I don't want to talk movies now.