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Google employees will walk out on Thursday to protest company's
Days after a New York Times investigation revealed Google gave Android creator Andy Rubin a $90 million exit package despite multiple relationships with other Google staffers and accusations of sexual misconduct, some 200 employees at the search giant are planning a walkout, per BuzzFeed News.
We've reached out to Google for comment.
The walkout, or "women's walk," as it's been referred to in internal company forums, is planned for Thursday.
Following the NYT report, Google chief executive officer Sundar Pichai and its vice president of people operations Eileen Naughton co-signed a company memo admitting that 48 people had been terminated at the company for sexual harassment in the past two years, 13 of which held a senior management position or higher. None of them, according to the memo, received an exit package.
[...] Rubin left Google in 2014 after an internal investigation found accusations of sexual misconduct against him to be credible. The details of his exit, however, were never disclosed. It wasn't until The Information published its own bombshell report on Rubin's wrongdoings last fall that details of his history of sexual harassment began to emerge. In the wake of The Information's story, Rubin took a leave of absence from Essential to "deal with personal matters."
See also: Google is 'bold and inspired' for coming clean about its 'Game of Thrones' culture of sex and power
Update: Alphabet exec Rich DeVaul resigns after harassment allegation
Just days after a New York Times report dug into sexual misconduct by executives within Google and its parent company Alphabet, one of the men named has resigned. Rich DeVaul was a director of Alphabet's X research division (formerly known as Google X), and cofounded Project Loon. As first reported by Axios, DeVaul resigned, and did not receive an exit package.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @05:54PM (10 children)
Spammers are sensitive folk, they can't handle disagreement and must spam their message more and more. If people tell them they are wrong the spam more because might makes right! The more of one message that exists the more correct it is amirite?
While we're at it we should also remove the VIOLENTLY IMPOSED MONOPOLY that allows these super special ynz-peeps to oppress the minority (hey we all know women are born at a higher ratio than men) and implement 1488 globalism tyranny. They just want our precious bodily fluids so they can replace us with sterile machines that, and I quote, "can go all night!"
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @06:44PM (9 children)
If you forcibly replace someone's legitimate words with "Comment Below Threshold", then I repost that person's words.
That's the deal.
(Score: 3, Funny) by requerdanos on Wednesday October 31 2018, @07:11PM
I am sorry that your difficulties with the threshold/breakthrough settings are (further) impairing your ability to discuss Google and its employees. Did you try asking on IRC, or contacting a computer-literate person for help?
(Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday October 31 2018, @07:11PM (6 children)
That's a creative interpretation of "replace". The comments below threshold can be expanded. The "Comment Below Threshold" text is not attributed to you.
Fuck your deal. We will downmod them forever.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @08:08PM (4 children)
Wouldn't it be better just to keep the 50-character subject intact?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday October 31 2018, @08:38PM
Personally, I would not mind it. I browse at -1 in the first place. However, multiple comments can be hidden at the same time under each message. I'll link this comment and see if anyone has anything to add about the threading system.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 31 2018, @09:36PM (2 children)
That was my original idea for it. The other coder types nixed it on the grounds of we'd have people title-spamming stupid bullshit that moderation then wouldn't be able to handle. I did not then nor do I now disagree with them on the issue.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @03:13AM (1 child)
Too bad.
(Score: 2, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 01 2018, @03:32AM
I suggest you find a good list of proxies then. You'll need them when we start banning your IP addresses for spamming.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 01 2018, @03:24PM
Huh? You're going to fuck his deal, then downmod him/her/it? I'll bet you don't even kiss him/her/it.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 31 2018, @09:33PM
Change your Threshold/Breakthrough settings if you dislike it. Reposting someone else's crap will get you a Spam mod because there is no reasonable way to tell the difference between you doing it and them doing it through a proxy/tor/whatever.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.