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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.
Show the company why men earn more: Get work done even when others don't.
Complain to HR that you are being made to feel bullied by not participating in their walkout and you no longer feel safe at work.
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.
You can't be bullied by a SJW. If a SJW bullies you, then you, by definition, deserve it. So it's not bullying. You're just bullying them more than you already do, by making them bully you.
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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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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