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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01 2018, @01:01AM
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?