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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) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @08:08PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @08:08PM (#756146)

    Wouldn't it be better just to keep the 50-character subject intact?

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday October 31 2018, @08:38PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday October 31 2018, @08:38PM (#756163) Journal

    Personally, I would not mind it. I browse at -1 in the first place. However, multiple comments can be hidden at the same time under each message. I'll link this comment and see if anyone has anything to add about the threading system.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 31 2018, @09:36PM (2 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday October 31 2018, @09:36PM (#756188) Homepage Journal

    That was my original idea for it. The other coder types nixed it on the grounds of we'd have people title-spamming stupid bullshit that moderation then wouldn't be able to handle. I did not then nor do I now disagree with them on the issue.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @03:13AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @03:13AM (#756317)

      Too bad.