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Google Employees Stage Protest Over Handling of Sexual Harassment (nytimes.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Employees at Google offices around the world held a wave of walkouts on Thursday to protest the company's handling of sexual harassment. The walkouts, which started in Asia and spread across continents, were planned for around 11 a.m. in their time zones. Protests were held through the day in Google offices in the United States. The backlash was prompted by an article in The New York Times last week that revealed that Google had paid millions of dollars in exit packages to male executives accused of harassment, while staying silent about the transgressions. As late morning arrived in different time zones on Thursday, Google employees walked away from their work at offices including Singapore; Hyderabad, India; Berlin; Zurich; Dublin; London; New York; and its headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Employees posted photos on social media, but it was unclear how long the protests lasted as many of those who stopped working stayed inside the buildings. The employees who organized the walkout have called on Google to end its use of private arbitration in cases of alleged sexual assault and harassment. They have also demanded the publication of a transparency report on instances of sexual harassment, further disclosures of salaries and compensation, an employee representative on the company board and a chief diversity officer who could speak directly to the board.
Employees posted photos on social media, but it was unclear how long the protests lasted as many of those who stopped working stayed inside the buildings. The employees who organized the walkout have called on Google to end its use of private arbitration in cases of alleged sexual assault and harassment. They have also demanded the publication of a transparency report on instances of sexual harassment, further disclosures of salaries and compensation, an employee representative on the company board and a chief diversity officer who could speak directly to the board.
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Bad enough we had to hear about this politicized nonsense the first time.
These people are reprehensible. #DontHireGooglers
The workers worked so hard getting the best education.
.... ad company.
Loans. All the exams. That wealth someone paid for the best education.
They found work at an
Working for Communist China and helping de rank the internet...
Start your own company with your own great ideas.
Find a really great company that makes product and services you actually like working with.
Thats what your education allows you to do.
The freedom to find work all over the USA.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
im pretty sure that Google Internal Security just face-recognized all of those social media posts, put all those workers on a blacklist, and will have them banned from the tech industry.
young people these days don't seem to understand how mega corporations work. they are not your friend, they are not your community, they are not a family, they have no values, and they have no empathy. they are big, sociopathic lumbering expressions of greed and brutality. if slavery were legal, every single one of them would buy slaves. if murder were legal, every single one of them would engage in murder.
stop trying to change Google. Quit google, and go work for some company that is not a monstrous leviathan of cruelty.
cannot live up to their own standards, should we really be taking pointers on how to implement equality from them?
Half of your co-workers are walking out. You either think they're wrong, or flat out don't care and would rather keep working. If you keep working you're The Enemy in a highly SJW work environment.
wat do? Work, or fuckit take a break?
Do they want the victims to be outed as well? What could go wrong? I mean, of course there won't be any repercussions for ratting out someone.
Posting to "social media" such as G+ would be a bad idea and probably career limiting.
Whether I agree with they way Google hand hdnaled this is not the issue - "They have also demanded the publication of a transparency report on instances of sexual harassment, further disclosures of salaries and compensation, an employee representative on the company board and a chief diversity officer who could speak directly to the board."
INAL, that in mind, I understand that Google are a private company so they don't actually have to do shit and disclose anything, and they can choose to handle this stuff privately. If Google have to disclose this information, then if there were payout to accusers, those too should be made public as well.
And forget a CDO, what a waste of a title and job. We all know that diversity infers "not what and not a man" (an actual man I mean, a white woman transitioned to a man is ok).
Get stupid work stoppages.
And you are fired, or denied any promotions or raises.
Good luck wage slaves.
Is that why gmail is fucking horribly slowly lately?
Hire stupid harassers, get work stoppages. Hire "SJW's and no harassers, get no work stoppages.
I don't respond to AC's.
What will be the next demand? This is starting to look like a college campus and not a company.
This is all that Slashdot cares about anymore. This "SJW" monster they've invented in their minds to vilify people who are angry about things they don't personally care about, but might tangentially affect them eventually. Maybe. We all need a bogeything to rally against, be it "evul femunists" or "anti-meritocratic agents" or whatever other nonsense makes us less threatened when the world around us shows signs of not revolving around us.
What’d they do... sit at their desks with their hands folded on their laps?
#DeleteChrome
That this has only been a thing since said employees began to be butthurt, younger millennials? You could cut a fart and they'd find something sexist about it. Impossible to take seriously. May the Bay at least be pretty when it burns to the ground because of this infantile garbage.
The man is clearly guilty because ... because you don't need a trial to know that every straight man is guilty of harassment.
So, really everyone just went out to lunch? An 11am walkout is symbolic at best.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Never cross a picket line, and fuck class traitors.
Here's why: I worked at Google. At Google, today, you can't as much as argue with a feminist (and I'd bet money most of Google's female employees consider themselves that), let alone sexually harass anyone for real. I once called out a female SJW on internal Google+ for "kill all white men" type of rhetoric. This promptly resulted in her reporting me to HR for "harassment". This is the kind of offense threshold we're talking about here. Does Google have bad apples? Any company of 85K people has at least a few. Can you get fired for as much as looking at some female co-worker wrong? 100% you can, if you're not Andy Rubin or the like. There is "process" for that: you get reported to HR, and security will walk you out the door for a mere "credible" accusation, no evidence or physical contact required. So the whole thing is SJW bullying plain and simple. If you're not walking out with them, you're misogynist bigot and literally a Nazi. So glad I don't work there anymore.
I definitely don't get this for the life of me. In every country, whether it's legal or not, people can pay for sex. In this case, the guy in question has lots of money. He can pay for as many companies as he'd like. And in most (if not all) cases, he will get much more good looking ones than the ones he tried to harass. Why in the world would he go and try having sex with somebody at work knowing it will get him in trouble? This just doesn't make any sense.
If employees feel they have to protest against their own employer fine
BUT...
I can guarantee you everyone single of them who walked out or protested or went on social media about it is has now effectively destroyed any career at Google. They won't be fired [especially in Europe] but they won't be promoted or advanced and will be first in line if it's redundancy time.
Corporations are self-protecting entities.
Also I'd suggest they Google [heh heh] the concept of "Biting the hand that feeds you"
My phone and email and office softare stopped working and now friendly armed men from the DHS are investigating my family..
The employees wants his head,
but Picachu is very smart, he is with the employees, fully supporting their walk out!
So Smart!
From one of the articles: "The woman, with whom Mr. Rubin had been having an extramarital relationship, said he coerced her into performing oral sex in a hotel room in 2013, according to two company executives with knowledge of the episode"
So they were having a sexual relationship. For some reason after she gave him a blow job she decided he coerced her into doing it. Who knows why?
I can tell you one personal story: I was dating a chick who was into dom/sub stuff. She liked being tied up and for me to be "masterful" with her. She gave me a copy of "The story of O" so I would know what she liked.
Anyway one night after she blows me she looks up and she's in tears. I asked "What's wrong?" and she says "You didn't have to force me". I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I said "How the hell am I supposed to know that THIS time you don't want to be a sub if you don't tell me???" The whole thing freaked me out. I couldn't get away from her fast enough.
They want to be able to anonymously accuse someone of sexual harassment. I'm sure no one would abuse a system that would allow you to destroy someone's life without repercussions.
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In the sjw world it is impossible 4 males to not harass females. Best keep a 59 ft fence between the sexes. That way white and blacks can die out. Sjws have no problem with Latino cat calls, but if a white male says hello to a female you have instant misogyny and racism. Paradoxically if a male ignores a female that is also misogyny. Sjws don't hate misogyny. They hate white males. Fuck it. Let's ignore the criticism and insist a women's place is making babies or sandwiches. Bitches ain't nothing but baby making machines. If a Ho ain't got a good man she is useless. Why the fuck would u hire someone that is going to sue you ass
Isn't sexual harassment illegal. So how can Google require employees to go through private arbitration for crimes? Tell the police, not your HR drone. Same for college students too. Campus police protect the school, not you. Corporate police (HR) protect the company, not you. Real police protect society, which sometimes includes you. At least you'll have a chance and retaliation against you for contacting the police is illegal.
So they "walked out" at 11 then came back? essentially taking a lunch break. I'm sure that's going to drive change at google. If it's so bad then quit.
Leftie: "Everyone should go to University! It's a Human Right!"
Normie: "Er, everyone can go to university. What's the problem?"
Leftie: "NOOO! Poor Brown people can't because Poor, Brown, Misogyny, Racism, Patriarchy, NAZIS!"
Normie: "Huh? We have bursary and scholarship programs. Kids with good grades can fill out a form and get their education paid for. So what's the problem?"
Leftie: "REEEEEEEEEEEE! Everyone should go to University! It's a Human Right! REEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Normie: (sigh) "Ok, assuming you're right, how do you propose to pay for all that. University education is expensive."
Leftie: "Well tax the rich of course! Tax the evillll corporations!"
Normie: "Fuck Off"
Leftie thinks about this for a while rubbing 2 brain cells together then comes back.
Leftie: "I've got it! Why not a student loan program! We can setup yet another government bureaucracy to manage it! Big Government YAY!"
Rightie: "Hmmm, my banker friends would like that. They can profiteer from that. I think we need to ask University Administrators what they think of this."
Universities: "So what you're saying is we can take everyone in and we'll just get paid no matter what? HOLY SHIT THAT'S FANTASTIC!!!!"
Results:
Now Universities are all about asses-on-seats and not about higher learning.
It gets worse. Universities pressure professors and threaten their tenure if they fail too many students. Sorry Quantum Field Theory is hard...
It gets worse. Universities emphasize retardo courses like gender studies, intersectionality, postmodernism, Harry Potter, Star Wars, etc..
It gets worse. Kids get saddled with 50000 of debt and useless degrees living at home with mommy and daddy into their 30's.
It gets worse. Now we have a situation where universities can charge whatever they want for tuition fees. 200+% over CPI.
It gets worse. Because courses get dumbed down Industry has trouble finding good candidates and therefore look outside. > 50% PHDs are H1B visas.
Solution: Kill the student loan programs. Whoops not so easy when the Banks, Government and University Administrations all support it.
If you got escorted out by security, then I'd bet my last buck that you did a lot more than simply 'call out' that comment.
Isn't that less of a protest and more of a long lunch? One you need to leave early for, because maybe you have a doctors appointment or need to run to the DMV.
While in some case this is about sex (think clumsy coworker flirting borderline harassment, type) in the case of an executive like that there is a very good chance it was about him using his power and feeling the rush of it, rather than the sex.
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Its hilarious how many of you talk about Google and all these other large companies being greedy, sociopathic companies only interested in profit. But these companies are NOTHING but a reflection of their stockholders. Honestly how many of you dig through your 401k's and portfolios and question the business practices of the companies you hold stock in???? You sit here and criticize them but as a stockholder you DEMAND a return.. or you'll sell. YOU vote with your dollars when it comes to this behavior. If someone told you tomorrow that Googles stock would triple.. you be lined up to buy it in spite of this behavior. So dont blame these companies for simply responding to YOUR demands.
The backlash was prompted by an article in The New York Times last week that revealed that Google had paid millions of dollars in exit packages to male executives accused of harassment, while staying silent about the transgressions.
Isn't it an HR policy to NOT share personal information about someone? Wouldn't this be counter to a persons right of privacy?
Yup, they're a pile of crap for what they did (if they did do it, and it wasn't just a baseless accusation), but does an employer really need to advertise why they got rid of someone? As far as the payouts, I'm sure there was something other than "Well, we think you're a good guy anyway, here, take a pile of money while we fire you for being accused of sexual harassment". Things are never cut and dry. It's not a binary world. There's an infinite distance between that 0 and 1...
Happy Friday!
Sexual assault is a crime. Harassment, in and of itself, generally is not.
And, in many cases, the victims do not want to be identified. Forcing it to be public would prevent a lot of victims from reporting, since THEIR names would be public, too.
If I was there and this was going on it would be an easy decison: "No. Go ahead with out me. I have work to do!"
That was fucking lame and you know it. You've accomplished nothing. Demands? Really? You went back to work you fucking pussies!
Stage a fucking strike or just fuck off. Posting photos on-line show what kind of narcissistic morons you are. Ooo I walked out. Ooo I posted a photo to instagram, then I want back to work. Management is not going to cave to demands if you don't really mean it. Cowards.
Has been changed, to be really good at hiding the evil.
Times fails to mention that one of the demands is that google has to put more "women of color" into upper management positions, with "accountability" if it fails to do so.
Google ceo Sundar Pichai appears to be rather brown, which possibly counts as a color, so maybe a declaration that he identifies as a woman would satisfy that demand?
This folks, is the way republicans actually fucking think.
Notice how he didn't list any republicans that got caught having sex with MEN, then going on speeches condemning gay people.
Notice how he didn't list any of the lies that trump has told us, or grab them by the pussy. Nope, it's all fake news, and of course it's the Democrats fault.
No ones asking for free birth control. We just want the right to do with our body as we please.
Google is a caretaker for its existing products with no meaningful new products in the last X years.
It's in a mid-life crisis.
Exactly where are the new significant as in percentage of Google's top line revenue products?
Stating, as much as I like the language, Go is amazing and used everywhere might be true but really not meaningful to Google's top line revenue.
And a commodity item like a smart speaker in every house is only a tiny short term revenue maker.
Good points, thanks.