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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, @05:15PM (3 children)
Keep telling yourself that. Maybe one day feminism will take up that position just because you have a problem with it.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Freeman on Wednesday October 31 2018, @05:40PM (2 children)
More like, we've always been at war with eurasia. Please provide citations for male victims of sexual misconduct at work. While I assume it would naturally come out, if it was a large problem as is the issue of female victims of sexual misconduct. Men and women are prejudiced against Men being sexual victims. Which in all honesty is just as much of a problem as the reverse. We should be pushing for respect, regardless of race, identity, etc. Instead we have conservatives who Hate gays or anything like it and liberals who Hate "straight people" or anyone who uses the term "straight". We have feminists who Hate men, because they aren't women. We have Hate. How about instead of hating me for thinking that being gay is a choice and not a very good one at that. You say, it's ok for him to think that and we can still get along just fine. How about instead of hating others for being gay. You say, it's ok for them to be different than me and we can still get along just fine. That doesn't mean, I have to accept being gay as a good thing. That doesn't mean that you have to accept my thoughts on gay lifestyle. What it should mean, is we can have constructive conversations, that are tolerant of both viewpoints, and move onto serious problems. Such as, Political Corruption, Corporate Greed as a Motto, and Intolerance of those that are different than us.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @06:38PM
You seem to have responded to the wrong comment.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @01:53PM
Many gay people don't actually say they chose the gay lifestyle after years of contemplation and study so that they can make an informed choice that suits their needs.
Instead they say they feel attracted to the same gender they are, and often don't know why. Sometimes heterosexuals don't know why they feel the way they do too!