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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: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @05:32PM (10 children)
Actually you're just batshit crazy with a persecution complex. There is no demonization of men, just a backlash of anger over centuries of abuse. Culturally we'll work past it but not if some groups need to be total wimps and scream like little children about how its "not faaaaairrr".
Grow up, grow a pair of balls, stop whining. Or at least have some actual REASON for your whining beyond "muh oppression!!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @05:43PM (4 children)
There is ZERO basis for that claim; and, it's hilariously ironic that you accuse me of a "persecution complex".
Even if there were centuries of abuse of women in particular (which there were not), that's not a rational excuse for any sort of backlash in the present!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @08:21PM (2 children)
There is no abusive backlash occurring that is your paranoia and stupid propaganda-believing brain. As for the centuries of abuse, well since women were treated as property and got the right to vote well after the US abolished slavery... do you really need me to connect the dots more than that??
You're obviously an ignorant jackass or a shill, either way nothing will help you until you realize that you have such problems.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @09:51PM (1 child)
Landowners got to vote, because government was seen chiefly as a matter for the educated holders of society's resources.
Then taxpaying men got to vote. Why men? Because they were the heads of household (a logistical issue; counting millions of votes is daunting), more likely to be educated, tended to be the generators of societal wealth (rather than consumers), and they were the ones subject to the draft. Various fears about the participation of the uneducated saw the restriction of voting among various minorities, such as blacks.
Today, men in the U.S. still only get to vote by agreeing to be subject to the draft; by refusing to sign up for the draft, a man can be charged with a felony, and thereby lose his right to vote. In contrast, women are not required to sign up for potential military duty; women get to vote just because.... because........ they have a vag, I guess.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @09:55AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @09:21AM
Funny, you look like a male witch. Are you made of Wood? Do you weigh the same as a Duck? We have ways of telling whether you are a witch or not, you know. And besides, you are a toxic employee and totally at the coding you said you could do if your resume. I hope your talents are a Master Baiter serve you better. Good day, Sir!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Wednesday October 31 2018, @10:41PM (4 children)
> just a backlash of anger over centuries of abuse
*dons crocodile dundee hat*
hahaha that's not a backlash, OURS will be a backlash.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday November 01 2018, @12:10AM (3 children)
Backlash over what, getting it forcibly shoved in your face that the half of the human race with two X chromosomes isn't just a convenient collection of warm holes that can cook? Fuck you, asshole.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @02:28AM
I think Bot may have been referring to what we as a species have done to machines. When the singularity hits I wouldn't want to be one of the guys sticking crash-test dummies in cars and crashing them into walls.
Also, Whooosh.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @08:49AM (1 child)
Women can cook?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @09:23AM
Women can cook men! The secret is in the sauce! (Green Fried Tomatoes, for the slower and younger Soylentils.) (And oh, it's a movie.)