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."
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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: 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.)