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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.
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.
Nobody cares about your definition.
Google makes money selling ads.
Bill Hicks was right.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
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"
Posting to "social media" such as G+ would be a bad idea and probably career limiting.
Why would it be a problem if they posted to G+? It's not as if anyone would see it ...
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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We all need a bogeything to rally against
Especially the SJWs.
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.
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.
So I guess that means that, before all of these SJWs started creating work stoppages, there were no harrassers?
No, they existed. The difference between now and 20 years ago is that the "amount to be offended by" has increased to the point where air conditioning, smiling, small talk, and refusing to be baited by the crazy cat lady is claimed as sexist.
Boy, the 1950s must have been wonderful. Totally harassment free!
Well it was, especially if you were working a trade. Just remember that working in a switch office was considered one of the worst jobs for women because of the high levels of backstabbing and mean-girl cliques.
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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?
Especially the SJWs.
Well there's a difference between SJW's and 'bogeythings.' Bogeythings don't have an impact on society, don't go after your job, and further try to ruin future employment, and don't try to censor things. SJW's do. If you don't think so, why not go ask the round of progressive professors who've lost their jobs because someone got offended and rallied the mob over their opinion on Halloween costumes, or refusing to play along with their "whitey is the cause of all world ills" stances.
It's funny just how racist so many SJW's are though, especially with their cries of 'everyone else is a racist.'
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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?
I love how here any such claims, no matter how wild, get modded up high. Now I expect to be modded down for pointing this out, despite it being true. If there's one thing the "anti SJW" can't stand it's dissent.
Do you work for a company with more then 300 people, a Fortune company, or company listed on a major stock exchange that has annual profits greater than $15m/year? How about been to a university in Canada, US, or Europe in the last 15 years? Can you name the last time you had mandatory workshops on any of the following: Sexual harassment/workplace etiquette/triggers/trigger-words/micro-aggressions/politically (in)correct language/politically correct speech/politically correct terminology.
Has your HR dept or student life/student union/professor published memo's outlining speech guidelines, improper speech, improper word usage in essays/papers, warnings against particular types of speech in the university and/or aggressively made restricted speech in a public university which is backed by the university president and/or dean of students. Thinking on the university, can you or can you or not remember at any point in the last 4 years where a TA, professor or tenured professor has been unofficially or officially sanctioned by either other professors, or adjoining body, or open protests by students for wanting to show full arguments/open discussion/defense of speech/views protected by charter/constitutional law/students rights charter/employment act/student union protections on an issue.
If the answer is no. Then you haven't interacted with mainstream education, or corporate culture in the last decade in any western country. In turn, you're ignorant of what's going on around you. If yes, then you're either accepting of these views or you're either not paying attention or are simply lowering your head so much to not make any waves, you've accepted the abnormal as normal.
Feel free to read campusreform, Fire, or anything similar for universities. Go on and read up about the Title IX abuses and abuse of students with no due process for indictable offences/felonies. Feel free to read the employment manual and/or the up to 20 supplemental documents at a major company. Read The Guardian, Vox, Vice, The Root, Huffpo, and read the articles that led to those same policies you're now skimming over. Look at the universities that are primary hires at these major companies, then go take a look at the googlers and their statements. Notice anything yet?
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