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posted by martyb on Wednesday October 31 2018, @04:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the integrity-and-ethics-are-more-than-just-words dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @05:52PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @05:52PM (#756089)

    Given the absolute lack of Men's Marches, there are 2 major possibilities:

    1. Men are never victims of anything.

    2. Men are victims, but...

      • men are held to standards of individual liberty/responsibility, while women are not; and/or

      • men are oppressed and ignored, women are not, and collectivist dogmas stating otherwise (including the exact reverse!) are expressions of delusion.

    Which one are you picking? I'm picking #2.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @06:12PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @06:12PM (#756097)

    Nice false dichotomy and you even set-up an easily pushed over strawman.

    Instead of pretending that the lack of "Men's Marches" is due to some underlying individualist:collectivist dogma disagreement, why don't you just start with more obvious lower-hanging fruit reasons like:
    The lower absolute number of male victims of sexual misconduct in the workplace.
    The lower likelihood of male victims to come forward.
    The lower number of serial perpetrators of sexual misconduct that are female.
    Stereotypes of male sex drive.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @06:35PM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @06:35PM (#756103)

      Your sole point of interest is that men are more likely to be perpetrators (and perpetrators are more likely to victimize women). However, that just leads us back to the very top post: #MeToo strongly suggests that women have no agency, and require the protection and guidance of a strong patriarchy.

      Your other examples are evoking #2:

      • Men are held to higher standards of personal responsibility; men have more agency.

      • Men are also more oppressed and ignored, implying the delusion of feminist collectivism.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @07:23PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @07:23PM (#756122)

        Your sole point of interest is

        No, I'm not trying to sell how my political ideology explains the world (or hypothetical worlds that I make up) like you are. I simply provided examples of how the the numbers of victims/perpetrators and societal expectations work against the number of "Men's Marches".

        • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @07:36PM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @07:36PM (#756134)

          I don't know what the point of your reply is or how it connects to anything.

          You seem to be just saying "No" for the sake of it.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @08:14PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @08:14PM (#756149)

            You seemed to be trying to steer the discussion away from why there is a lack of "Men's Marches" to something to do with women's agency.

            The rest of the post I replied to just acknowledged the number discrepancy in victims/perpetrators and said that stereotypes of male sex drive and societal pressure against men admitting being a victim of sexual misconduct are examples of oppression. I don't really disagree with the latter part, but I don't agree with it being due to "feminist collectivism".

            • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @09:34PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @09:34PM (#756187)

              Firstly, the post to which you replied did NOT acknowledge any such discrepancy; it merely played with the idea for the sake of argument: If such a discrepancy is real, then it only serves to prove that women have no agency and must be protected and championed by a fatherly patriarchy; women cannot be trusted to navigate the world as individuals.

              Secondly, this same post does not state that feminist collectivism causes men to be oppressed or held to a higher standard; rather, it states that men being oppressed or held to a higher standard is a logical conclusion of the lack of "Men's Marches", and that this conclusion serves as PROOF that feminist collectivism is delusional (there is no privileged male patriarchy; quite the reverse exists).

              Thirdly, I'll state here that feminist collectivism, by virtue of being both delusional and imposing of change, is indeed contributing to the maltreatment of men.

    • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday October 31 2018, @10:38PM (1 child)

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday October 31 2018, @10:38PM (#756224) Homepage Journal

      He post AC

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @09:25AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @09:25AM (#756379)

        He post good AC. Make Zug want to make zug-zug with he AC.