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posted by Fnord666 on Friday December 01 2017, @12:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-an-essential-relationship dept.

Andy Rubin has taken a leave of absence from Essential Products following the disclosure of the circumstances of his departure from Google:

Essential founder and CEO Andy Rubin has taken a leave of absence from his new company for "personal reasons" following a report on the circumstances of his 2014 departure from Google. According to The Information, Rubin left Google shortly after an investigation found that he had maintained an "inappropriate relationship" with a woman who worked under him and filed a complaint to HR.

The nature of that relationship isn't detailed in the report, and Rubin's spokesperson Mike Sitrick denies the connection. "Any relationship that Mr. Rubin had while at Google was consensual," Sitrick tells The Information. "Mr. Rubin was never told by Google that he engaged in any misconduct while at Google and he did not, either while at Google or since." Rubin is said to have told Essential employees of his leave of absence on Monday after The Information informed Sitrick of its story.

The Information's information about the matter is not extensive. Here is the important paragraph:

Google initiated its investigation after an employee complained to the company's Human Resources division about her relationship with Mr. Rubin, according to three people familiar with the matter. The people declined to elaborate on the specific nature of the woman's complaint against Mr. Rubin.

Essential Products released a high-end Android smartphone in May and will release a "smart" speaker later this year.

Also at Engadget, 9to5Google, and Fast Company.

Update: Here is Essential's Bi-weekly AMA where they basically assured users that the company is still operating, business as usual.


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  • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Saturday December 02 2017, @12:06AM (1 child)

    by Nuke (3162) on Saturday December 02 2017, @12:06AM (#604103)

    I'd say they both [On-line and off-line dating] have about the same track record, for basically the same reason: People almost universally aren't what they present themselves to be.

    Of course people don't necessarily come out with the bad points straight off. Nevertheless, if on-line you can do some filtering before you meet.

    If I approach a girl in a bar/street/concert/dance I know absolutely nothing about her except her looks; not even where she lives - could be 1000 miles away on holiday. On-line, in addition to that, you can learn, or ask about, before you spend or waste an evening with her : interests, lifestyle, location, career, education level, status, politics, religion etc. I don't mean you give them a questionaire, but in the dating organisation I was with you exchanged a few messages before meeting and these things started to emerge. I'm not saying they they are necessarily show-stoppers (I don't mind education level) but they all build a picture. Of course, they can lie, but if a girl in her pre-meeting messages that she is a vegetarian, then she probably is. If she said she has just returned from a communist rally, she is probably a communist. If she says she spends every weekend horse riding, she is probably into horses. You can judge their educational level just by their writing style (how would they fake it up?). And so on.

    I believe that many of those those who deprecate on-line dating make the assumption that you would otherwise meet partners who somehow you already know something about, which is no good if you don't. My parents met in a sports club circle (of about 40 young people with about a 50:50 sex ratio it seems) where everyone came to know something about all the others before the romance started, and most of them ended up marrying each other. My mother was horrified when I joined a dating organisation as her attitude was like "You should only meet people you have already met". None of that helps if you do not know anyone to start with, and joining a club like my parents' is an incredibly innefficient way to start (I have been in clubs where they are almost all old fogies). I never "met" or was introduced to any girl outside dating organisations.

    The other misconception the critics have is assuming that you must marry (or whatever) the person "the computer picks for you". This seems to stem from some earlier systems (computer but pre-internet - "Dateline" in the UK back then) which boasted computer matching and basically you paid per "match" they gave you. In fact however you meet, on or off-line, once you meet you take the situation from there and make up your own minds whether it is going to work between you. When I met girls through the dating organisation, we tended to talk about the organisation for a few minutes and then moved on to other topics, the matter of how we came to talking to each other became irrelevant from then on.

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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday December 02 2017, @11:30PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Saturday December 02 2017, @11:30PM (#604460)

    I never "met" or was introduced to any girl outside dating organisations.

    There's been a small handful of times I've met a girl at a party, but it's just not a great way to meet someone and get to know them. You're not going to meet lots of eligible people there, many of them may already be in a relationship (most parties aren't exclusive to singles), and it takes time to talk to them and find out any show-stoppers. With online dating, you can do a search which filters out obvious deal-breakers like religion, distance, having kids, etc.