Former Google Employee Files Lawsuit Alleging the Company Fired Him Over Pro-Diversity Posts (theverge.com)

According to court documents filed today, a former Google engineer is suing the company for discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination. "Tim Chevalier, a software developer and former site-reliability engineer at Google, claims that Google fired him when he responded with internal posts and memes to racist and sexist encounters within the company and the general response to the now-infamous James Damore memo," reports The Verge. From the report: Chevalier said in a statement to The Verge, "It is a cruel irony that Google attempted to justify firing me by claiming that my social networking posts showed bias against my harassers." Chevalier, who is also disabled and transgender, alleges that his internal posts that defended women of color and marginalized people led directly to his termination in November 2017. He had worked at Google for a little under two years. Notably, Chevalier's posts had been quoted in Damore's lawsuit against Google -- in which Damore sued the company for discrimination against conservative white men -- as evidence Google permitted liberals to speak out at the company unpunished. Chevalier's lawsuit alleges that his firing is, in fact, a form of punishment. The lawsuit was filed in San Francisco County Superior Court and Chevalier is seeking damages for lost wages, emotional distress, punitive damages, and injunctive relief against those alleged harmful acts. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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[AmiMoJo]

For example, I have ME, also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

ME can range from mild to severe. It can change day to day. Sometimes it is a kind of disability, in that there are things I can't do that I used to be able to, and sometimes it has little impact.

So do I tick the disabled box on the form? And if I do tick it, what happens?

I decide on an ad-hoc basis. If I'm booking a flight I probably won't tick it, there is little benefit in telling them that I have a disability and I don't really want to explain it to them. On the other hand, if I'm starting a new job and HR asks I will tell them, and they will tell my manager and help with any necessary adjustments.

Oh, and queer just means someone who doesn't conform to binary gender or binary sexuality.