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Google is struggling to discuss the recent diversity memo controversy internally:
Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, canceled a scheduled all-hands staff meeting—moments before it was scheduled to begin—meant to address concerns over a controversial essay published by former employee James Damore.
In an email to staff, Pichai explained that questions from employees had been leaked and that, in some cases, specific employees' identities were revealed, exposing them to harassment and threats. Instead of today's large-scale meeting, which was to be livestreamed to Google's 60,000 employees worldwide, smaller groups will meet sometime in the future.
"We had hoped to have a frank open discussion today as we always do to bring us together and move forward. But our Dory questions appeared externally this afternoon, and on some websites Googlers are now being named personally," Pichai said in the email.
Also at CNET.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by jmorris on Friday August 11 2017, @05:19PM (2 children)
Kinda hard to hold that position once your employer has openly installed a Political Officer and from the look of things in the sunlight this incident has shone into Google, a pretty high percentage of the employees seem to believe making blacklists and other efforts to gain total political control of the organization is their primary duty, not producing the Evil that Google hired them to do.
This is the Impossibility of SJW Convergence being demonstrated for the world in real time. As an organization devotes ever more attention and resources toward Social Justice it ceases to be able to carry out the function it was created for.
Then there is an entirely different problem with Google. Use their own search engine to look at how involved in politics, both U.S. and world, Google the corporation and the high officers are. To now attempt to make a claim to be exempt from the negative consequences of their political activities would be a demand their opponents would be foolish to grant them. As one of those enemies I say "Kick em while they are down. Finish them!"
Oh, and the Alt-Right is already anticipating the counter attack that will come. Remember that Google knows all. Expect "anonymous insiders" to begin selective leaking to dox anyone who pisses them off. It would tick off two of the Laws of SJW, Doubling down and projecting. Exposure is the one thing all Progs fear most. This will be the one thing that Google could do that would destroy them quickly, we expect them to do it because they really are that dumb.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @08:17PM
They are probably already coming for you, jmorris! Run, jmorris, run! Where you going to go?
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday August 12 2017, @06:13AM
I wonder if we will see employees sue Alphabet Inc. (Google) for being not diverse enough. Then others to sue them for being diverse. While the rest enjoy the popcorn and flames.
So far the GOOG share has since August 7 went from 914.39 to 929.51 US$ a 1.63% drop in 5 days.
Alphabet Inc went from 945.75 to 930.09 a 1.66% drop.
As a comparison United Airlines [soylentnews.org] beating-passenger-share has since April 13 went from 70 to 66 US$ a 5.7% drop.
I think this spectacle also shows why the "nothing to hide" is so hollow. Suppose a person working at google is exposed to have the wrong opinions. Upon exposure they will be IRL flamed and fired.