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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: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday November 01 2018, @12:18AM (11 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday November 01 2018, @12:18AM (#756252) Journal

    For everyone going "what about the male victims," I have this to say:

    Organize. Speak up. Do what we're doing. Don't stay silent. Don't suffer all alone.

    Do you know what keeps male victims silent? Other men. Fear of what other men will do to them if they speak up or report it. And this is WRONG. Maybe it's a weird thing to hear coming from a lesbian feminist, but my position on this is that sexual assault is an evil of itself. It does not matter who is doing it. It does not matter who it is done to. It is Wrong with a capital W.

    But because men fear losing their masculinity and the attendant societal privileges, because men fear, let's face it, *being compared to women,* when it happens to you, *you don't speak out.* And this, too, is wrong. You suffer just like we do, and in some ways worse, because what other men are telling you constantly is "this doesn't happen to men." So you get the same life-destroying feeling of your own body not belonging to you, your skin being soiled in a way no shower however hot will ever, ever wash clean, and on top of that, *other asshat men* telling you "sit down and shut up, faggot."

    It's. Not. Women. Doing. This. To. You. It's other men. Wake up, go get help, maybe even ask women. And the ones who don't believe you or who mock you? They're shit people too.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @01:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @01:01AM (#756272)

    Better idea:

    Keep doing what men have successfully done for centuries. Leave the politics out of it, go elsewhere and built your own cool thing.

    People are having palpitations about diversity in the movie industry, or lack thereof. Go indie.

    People are angry (no, really) about how many songwriters and music producers are male (I guess this is kind of an industry insider perspective) but even if the big labels start identity-checking their studios, can't stop the little guys (who aren't getting any special breaks anyway, this is Big Music we're talking about) going indie. And they do.

    You don't have to fight anything. Just keep doing your own thing. In the long run, it works.

    Or go back in history and tell Agatha Christie how she's not allowed to be successful because in her era women are, like, totally oppressed, don't you know?

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @02:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @02:38AM (#756301)

    Oh look, an extremely obvious SJW NPC parroting the same horseshit. How's that "pay no attention to the latinx womxn behind the curtain!" thing working out? Hmm? Idiot.

  • (Score: 2) by deimtee on Thursday November 01 2018, @02:58AM (1 child)

    by deimtee (3272) on Thursday November 01 2018, @02:58AM (#756308) Journal

    The difference is about 20 to 30 years. 30 years ago, women were afraid to come forward and complain because "no one will believe you", "you'll be called a troublemaker and no-one else will ever hire you", "you must have asked for it", "take it as a compliment, someone thinks you're attractive". Feminists and other decent people started to push back against that crap.

    20 years ago things still weren't great, but it was no longer a career ender for a woman to lodge a complaint. They were taken seriously, and it could damage a man's career to be accused.

    We are now somewhere between the two with regard to men being harassed.

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    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @06:30AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @06:30AM (#756340)

      The problem is these women all come out when the man is about to get or achieve something. If they did it randomly, instead of at a perfect time to hurt somebody, they'd be taken more seriously. Their timing makes it look like they're making false claims or are whining about other people being better off than them. They seem to care less that they get justice and more that he doesn't get ahead in life.

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @03:20AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @03:20AM (#756318)

    I think the rallies and marches you're looking for are called the alt-right, as thoroughly misguided as they are about a number of things. They even elected a fake president.

    Your analysis here is a reaction to their identity politics that still exists within the very limited utility of identity politics. Their identity politics is a reaction to capitalist pseudo-feminist identity politics. Identity politics, of course, is rooted in the Kerner Commission Report and attempts by the bourgeoisie to distract the working and (shrinking) middle classes from the class issues that they face.

    But because men fear losing their masculinity and the attendant societal privileges

    There are some things that have to do with gender. Notably, men are discouraged and face legal discrimination in child care professions and elementary school teaching positions. In child custody disputes, men also face discrimination.

    Mostly, however, it's about their income. I believe this is a common factor that drives reactionary feminists such as TERFs. It's about access to healthcare with affordable health insurance. It's about the difficulties the working class faces building a secure retirement. Pensions are becoming a thing of the past. It's about workplace injuries and deaths (see WSWS' extensive coverage) along with woefully inadequate disability compensation. It's about increasingly precarious employment and the destruction of unemployment benefits. It's about austerity policies that reduce food stamp and welfare benefits to families in need.

    Men in the working class are losing out. Women in the working class are losing out too. We see a wedge of distraction created by the mainstream media propagandists who turn all these things into issues of identity politics. This is particularly devastating to men, because when things such as the wage gap come up, their struggles have no voice.

    So men march and rally. And they go, "Trump! Trump! Trump!"

    We need to raise awareness of the class issues.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday November 01 2018, @03:58AM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday November 01 2018, @03:58AM (#756326) Journal

      Agreed entirely, 100%. The GOP somehow convinced the Democrats to stop appealing along class lines sometime in the 80s, which is the equivalent of ripping the engine out of their car. And for all the naysayers who say that platform won't fly outside the coasts...the union movement *began* in the Midwest. My adoptive home state of Wisconsin was one of the epicenters, and to see what it's become and is going to turn into at this rate is tragic.

      Someone in the GOP, decades and decades ago, was a hell of a psyops artist...

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      I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @08:52AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @08:52AM (#756364)

    I don't know where you pick up this crap.

    I, myself, in person, first hand, have watched women complaining when men speak up.

    Oh, those must have been unreconstructed anti-feminist women, right? Backlash bitches or something?

    Wrong. They were hard-core 3rd-wave (or later, depending on who's counting) feminists.

    Why on earth would they be angry?

    Because it was obviously a cynical plot to withdraw resources from women who obviously desperately need them. And the men were probably making it all up anyway.

    Wait-wait-wait, this must have been an aberration in a far-off isolated community, right?

    Wrong. It was a nationally known, famous institute of higher learning. It wasn't ignorant benighted women getting all the wrong ideas. It was educated women, including some professors.

    So. Yeah. Not so much with the it's-all-men's-fault narrative.

    But thanks anyway.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 02 2018, @03:23AM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday November 02 2018, @03:23AM (#756741) Journal

      So fuck 'em. Education is no guarantee of being correct or even a decent human being. I have some serious, deadly gripes with the kind of feminism I see coming out of a lot of spoiled rich white daddy's girls like this. When someone comes to me with a story of sexual abuse, I am inclined to believe it, no matter the sex, gender, or what have you of the complainant.

      --
      I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @11:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @11:35AM (#756410)

    It's pointless arguing with Griefergrunt. There's no solution but to switch them off while remaining aware that they exist. (If they do actually say anything new, we'll definitely hear about it.)

  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @03:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @03:36PM (#756480)

    It is Wrong with a capital W.

    Ahhhhhh - the dreaded capital W.

    Hail Mary, full of grace.
    The Lord is with thee.
    Blessed art thou amongst women,
    and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
    Holy Mary, Mother of God,
    pray for us sinners,
    now and at the hour of our death.
    Amen.

    Hmmmm, I always wondered where Fruit of the Womb underwear got it's name.

    Should I be more serious? Alright - I'll give it a try. Sexual assault is the reason God created Samuel Colt. As He died to make men Holy, let us die to make men equal!!

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 02 2018, @12:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 02 2018, @12:53AM (#756687)

    Poor, poor SJW NPC baby. No one likes you. No one that isn't batshit insane agrees with you. No society can exist with the retarded moral framework you espouse. Go cry somewhere that people give a fuck.