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Google didn't violate labor laws by firing engineer James Damore for a memo criticizing the company's diversity program, according to a recently disclosed letter from the US National Labor Relations Board. The lightly redacted statement is written by Jayme Sophir, associate general counsel of the NLRB's division of advice; it dates to January, but was released yesterday, according to Law.com. Sophir concludes that while some parts of Damore's memo were legally protected by workplace regulations, "the statements regarding biological differences between the sexes were so harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive as to be unprotected."
Damore filed an NLRB complaint in August of 2017, after being fired for internally circulating a memo opposing Google's diversity efforts. Sophir recommends dismissing the case; Bloomberg reports that Damore withdrew it in January, and that his lawyer says he's focusing on a separate lawsuit alleging discrimination against conservative white men at Google. NLRB records state that its case was closed on January 19th.
There are White House Staff positions open, I hear.
Previously: Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences
Google Cancels "Town Hall" Due to Leaks
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday February 20 2018, @02:37AM (7 children)
I've noticed that the quality of the formerly top-notch Google services and Youtube has been declining over the past few years anyway. Spam filters in E-mail filter out obviously legitimate e-mails, Youtube search seems deliberately designed to obfuscate even benign (apolitical) content. Specifically, searching for a song by a band, a song which had always been easy to find, but the search results posted every song by that band except the one I was looking for. They want to see how much you are willing to work to get what you want, as if you are a starved rat in their maze. I solved the problem not by jumping through their hoops but by searching "Google are Jews" instead.
The Gmail spam problem could be attributed to more and more idiots adopting Gmail, but the latter based on real events has me convinced that Google are engaging in experiments to piss off their users or otherwise see what they can tolerate (for example, you probably noticed that a few years ago the audio quality in some of their songs seemed like it was deliberately reduced, and searching for other videos of the same track was confirmation of what you weren't willing to tolerate).
Of course, Google were always in bed with, if not a direct arm of, alphabet soup agencies.
Perhaps I lit myself up on Google's radar for calling Eric Schmidt a "Greedy Jew" during a live chat regarding one of Google's services, prompting the chat bot to disconnect the conversation, and they were having a little fun with me after placing me on their shit-list.
(Score: 5, Touché) by jelizondo on Tuesday February 20 2018, @03:00AM
That the name of Google´s parent company is Alphabet in no way implies... WAIT A MINUTE!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @03:02AM (5 children)
(Score: 4, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday February 20 2018, @03:07AM (4 children)
Ahh, so you're saying that the Whites left and the ones remaining are H1-B stinkoids and insectoids?
You, my friend, are a racist.
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Tuesday February 20 2018, @03:30AM (1 child)
You, my friend, are a racist.
there's no mod setting for "-2, head asplode"
or maybe "x/0 exception"
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @03:48AM
Well he is a troll, apparently an equal opportunity one at that!
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @03:50AM (1 child)
These days, pretty much everyone is racist, unless you're discriminating against white people. Then, somehow, it's A-OK, because some people think "equality" means revenge.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday February 20 2018, @03:57AM
Or "diversity" means "anybody but Whites."
Go to Qualcomm's campus and tell me how "diverse" it is. All Chinese and Indians, and even in border California the only Hispanics there are the security guards. No wonder why they're slim pickins for Broadcom.