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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: 3, Informative) by Bobs on Thursday November 01 2018, @10:06AM (1 child)
No.
In any well-run, competently run organization, you prevent/manage fraternization between people with hiring/firing/promotion authority.
If he was a military general running a boot camp and asked one of the recruits under his command, while off base, if they would have sex with him, that would be a problem. If that person was in the process of requesting transfer into his unit, and he asked them to have sex, that would be a problem.
If you are a university professor don’t screw with ‘your’ students or with juniors in your field.
It would also be a problem if s/he asked one of these people to pay him money or give him a ‘loan’.
With power comes responsibility. If you can’t handle the responsibility of not asking every random person you encounter for sex, then you shouldn’t have the power in the organization to oversee a bunch of people. All you need to have is enough control of yourself to only proposition every person who doesn’t work in your field under you. There are plenty of fish in the sea. Don’t fuck with the crew.
The gender of the people doesn’t matter. If it is for sex or not doesn’t matter. It is an abuse of power to ask for externalities from people under you. It messes up organizational function, morale, and is ripe for abuse or the appearance thereof.
And if a person can’t handle that responsibility then they shouldn’t be a leader in the organization.
(Score: 3, Touché) by tangomargarine on Thursday November 01 2018, @06:43PM
Yeah okay, that would be relevant if it happened after the woman was hired at the company.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"