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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @07:06PM (4 children)
That is the real injustice here actually. The monetary divide creates the culture of power imbalance because that is how our society measures worth. A few of us are not so crazy, but too many are. We've been sold the lie that rich people are better than everyone else, what a crock.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday October 31 2018, @09:54PM (3 children)
Not better. Better off. More powerful. Able to make people do their bidding with money.
And on the other end, poverty and debt can add unnecessary stress and hardship to one's life. It can make them go crazy. Not to say that rich people can't go crazy, but the circumstances are worse.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @10:12PM (2 children)
Being not insane you understand, now go out and meet the people who literally think rich people are better / more deserving.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @02:40AM (1 child)
Are you talking about khallow?
(Score: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Thursday November 01 2018, @09:33AM
Poor khallow! If he is so smart, why isn't he rich? And if they are so rich, why aren't they smart? (A certain Rapper comes to mind, a stable genius, who just unstablized.)