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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.
Bad enough we had to hear about this politicized nonsense the first time.
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.
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?
Software and hardware that allows ads more time with users is still part of been an ad company AC.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
They didn't claim they were perfect. They just acted like it when lecturing us and trying to force us into their morality through lobbying and propaganda.
Get stupid work stoppages.
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.
I would like to know when Google claimed they were a perfect company, rather than a company trying to do better, that has a ways to go in spite of their efforts so far.
In politics we call these people limousine liberals. The self-righteous, sanctimonious assholes that preach that they're better, their actions are better, and if you don't do what they tell you? You're a terrible person. This of course is while they're carrying on like normal or acting even worse then what they claim they're fighting for/against/etc.
It's really no difference then the old catholic indulgence system. All sins can be forgiven as long as you virtue signal hard enough, and throw enough money at *insert special/pet cause* showing how "woke" you are.
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So I guess that means that, before all of these SJWs started creating work stoppages, there were no harrassers?
Boy, the 1950s must have been wonderful. Totally harassment free!
Nah bro. There's always something to offend a feminist. The goalposts always change. When the entire culture is based on gaining power and prestige by taking offence, offence will be taken.
They spend more time on facebook and slashdot compaining than working even when they do choose to show up. Don't hire them and you won't get your career ruined later when they witchhunt you for using the word "Dude" in your username or having a penis, or other not-woke-enough nonsense.
Exactly. They've not only mass jumped on a #metoo opportunity, but they're also talking how big G is too dominated by males. Google is about to let itself be overrun in leftist politics.
Why can't we go back to using jumpers to configure slot adapter cards? Why? I say!
College loans that you spend half your life paying back are mostly an American thing. Most of these protestors are outside the USA, where education is much more affordable. The downside is that they have no student rec centers with saunas, climbing walls, and acai bowl bars.
The man is clearly guilty because ... because you don't need a trial to know that every straight man is guilty of harassment.
At this point I can tell if trolls like this are American or Ukranian....
Would you be happier if I called them baizuo instead? By the way, it's a common term in Canada as well. Someone in the Ukraine would be more likely to use a local version of champagne socialist, noting the heavy communist influence on the country.
Wish I could.
Don't worry, one day you'll have learned enough of the world that it'll either drive you insane or make you a realist.
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No need. Big Brother Google already fired all their competent engineers. All that's left now are H1-Bs and screaming social just-us activists. I mean, seriously, have you seen the utter shit quality of Google's recent software?
It is difficult for an outsider to know which is the truth.
But we do all know how Damore was treated.
Only one data point. But went to the CEO.
I have a friend in Google who is Constantly telling me what the op said. It's full sjw infestation "with us or against us"
Having now actually visited a campus, it was EXACTLY how the movies, tv and gtav depict.
I saw /mostly/ women, mostly young and mostly hip looking types. I'm 40 and out of the 300 ppl I saw, I'd say teen were my age or older.
I saw less then 5 "typical nerds" that we generally look like, balding, overweight dudes who look a bit shy / insure of themselves.
My contact tells me the vast majority of real work is done by about 15% of the staff. It was seriously like a high school cafeteria.
Yup. The corporate social just-us nazis at Google et al. remind me very much of the "fundamentalist Christians" who were prominent a couple decades ago.
The same huffy self-righteousness. The same raging hypocrisy. The same burning desire to force their morality on an unwilling public. The same mean spirited, small minded, small hearted outlook on life.
The social just-us nazis do seem rather better financed than the fundie fake-Christians were. (I guess suitcase full of cash from the Chinese intelligence services can come in handy.) But they are just as tiny a fraction of the population. And just as intensely unpopular with the average Joe.
They found work at an .... ad company.
Yes they did, and it completely irrelevant. You see the type of primary work a company does is completely irrelevant to a desire to work for a company unless your overriding decision is affected by some moral opinion about said company.
What actually matters to most people:
- The type of work.
- The type of development opportunities.
- The long term investment in the type of work.
- The type of prestige.
- Getting paid what you're worth
This is why the likes of AI / image recognition experts will line up to be paid money with lots of zeros on the end to work at an "ad company". It's why datacentre designers and hardware experts line up to be paid money with lots of zeros by an "ad company".
Start your own company with your own great ideas.
If it were easy then everyone would do it. But it's not. It's far easier to be paid for your expertise than to branch out into something that you have no experience in. The fact that you actually suggested this shows that you've never started your own company before.
Find a really great company that makes product and services you actually like working with.
They did. Most educated and capable people do not work very long for a company they aren't happy with.
Thats what your education allows you to do.
The freedom to find work all over the USA.
Which begs the question, why is it that you are more upset that these people work at an "ad company" than the people themselves?