Google Reportedly Paid Andy Rubin $90 Million After He Allegedly Coerced Sex From Employee (theverge.com)

The New York Times has revealed new details on the circumstances that surrounded Andy Rubin's departure from Google in 2014. According to the report, Google "investigated sexual misconduct claims against Rubin, which revolved around an incident in which he allegedly coerced another Google employee into 'performing oral sex in a hotel room in 2013,'" The Verge reports. "Despite reportedly finding the claims credible -- to the point that Page decided Rubin needed to go -- Google gave him a $90 million exit package. The last $2 million of that agreement will be paid out next month." From the report: Before that payout, and during the initial stages of its investigation in 2014, Google awarded Rubin "a stock grant worth $150 million." The move gave Rubin, at that time a highly-valued executive at the company, major financial incentive for sticking around after he'd moved on from Android to focus his efforts on a robotics unit. The Times says it's unclear whether Page or Google's leadership committee knew about the misconduct allegations when they approved that huge grant. But they certainly did when reaching the $90 million figure as Rubin headed out the door, and Page offered public praise for Rubin in announcing his departure. After he left, Google proceeded to invest in his VC, Playground Ventures. And the company even allowed him to delay paying back a $14 million loan it'd given him "to buy a beach estate in Japan." In a statement to the New York Times, Google said: "[W]e investigate and take action, including termination. In recent years, we've taken a particularly hard line on inappropriate conduct by people in positions of authority. We're working hard to keep improving how we handle this type of behavior."

UPDATE: Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to employees Thursday in response to the report, saying 48 employees have been fired for sexual misconduct over the last two years.

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[Jarwulf]

Humans, at least normal humans, aren't asexual robots who can turn it on and off with the flip of a switch. Sex and eroticism is embedded to our core as one of our primary instincts. Being driven by our sexual impulses all the time, yes even in the workplace, is a feature not a bug as designed by God/evolution. You attempt to suppress this basic drive and it will leak out elsewhere in more destructive ways, ie even deeper perversion or fanaticism. G00gle and other ultra left wing tech companies and modern world in general apparently have forgotten the lessons humanity learned at great cost with its experiences with societal and religious traditions over the past thousands of years.

Re:Coerced?

[losfromla]

There's zero evidence of the claims you are making. You are parroting the talking points of the very demented and unhinged occupier of the WH and his idiot sycophant followers.