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Alphabet Inc.'s Google has fired an employee who wrote an internal memo blasting the web company's diversity policies, creating a firestorm across Silicon Valley. James Damore, the Google engineer who wrote the note, confirmed his dismissal in an email, saying that he had been fired for "perpetuating gender stereotypes." He said he's "currently exploring all possible legal remedies."
[...] Earlier on Monday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a note to employees that said portions of the memo "violate our Code of Conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace." But he didn't say if the company was taking action against the employee. A Google representative, asked about the dismissal, referred to Pichai's memo.
[...] After the controversy swelled, Danielle Brown, Google's new vice president for diversity, integrity and governance, sent a statement to staff condemning Damore's views and reaffirmed the company's stance on diversity. In internal discussion boards, multiple employees said they supported firing the author, and some said they would not choose to work with him, according to postings viewed by Bloomberg News.
"We are unequivocal in our belief that diversity and inclusion are critical to our success as a company," Brown said in the statement. "We'll continue to stand for that and be committed to it for the long haul."
Source: Bloomberg.
[Update: Apparently Julian Assange has offered James Damore a job, saying that "Censorship is for losers". - Fnord666]
Previously: Googler's Memo on Culture of Diversity Extremism Goes Viral Inside Google
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 08 2017, @11:41PM (9 children)
My takeaway from this whole incident is that Google is a bloated, bereaucratic workplace that has grown large enough that they can support a fair amount of deadwood. Diversity Officer? What the hell does her workday consist of? I guess this guy just gave her an opportunity to justify her job. Seize the moment; burn the infidel! Show your power as a woman is greater than the man's!
Honestly, the vast majority of their products are either forgettable crap that eventually fails and they drop, or else it's an acquistion (Android, Youtube, etc.)
They do have search though, and all that data mining on you funds the failures.
(Score: 4, Funny) by kaszz on Wednesday August 09 2017, @12:12AM (4 children)
Is search the only good product they have?
Anyway considering some other companies. There seems to be some common warning signs:
* In deep cahoots with the government.
* In deep cahoots with the military.
* Firing the founder(s).
* Being bought by company that is larger than yours.
* Management wouldn't understand what their foot people do even if their life would depend on it.
* Management lack anyone with a engineering degree.
* They have high paying deadwood positions. Like human resources or diversity officers etc.
* Obvious and inexplicable inefficiencies.
* They are just too big for the given task.
If you see any of these. Consider to not invest, buy, work or be associated with them.
And a general advice is to stay away from people in HR, diversity officers, and social issues mission people.
Anyone stranded on the Moon. What would they need. A) Diversity officer B) CEO C) Engineer that can fix the oxygen generator?
And what happens to the groups that select the the wrong composition of merits? :-)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 09 2017, @05:51AM (2 children)
Search used to be good.
Now it's really so-so. Their recommendations are crap, and the hoops you have to jump through to use their vaunted search features are ridiculous.
How many fucking times do I try to narrow down a search to show something I actually give a fuck about, before Google comes back with prove-you're-a-human bullshit? I'm getting tired of Google deciding I must be a bot just because I try incremental searches.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 09 2017, @06:42AM (1 child)
Have you heard of Bing!? Do you like to watch Gladiator movies, Jimmy?
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday August 11 2017, @12:48AM
Bing = Microsoft.
They are lapdogs to the uppercase letter things.
(Score: 1) by DECbot on Wednesday August 09 2017, @05:55AM
I don't know. Bang the flight attendant until the oxygen is depleted?
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 09 2017, @12:48AM (3 children)
Her only previous job was apparently at IBM. Also as diversity officer. And her schooling is solely in the Business wheelhouse. MBA generally says enough. As the old saying goes, the fastest way to ruin a business is to hire a Harvard MBA (not that her MBA school was anywhere near that prestigious).
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday August 09 2017, @01:49AM (2 children)
Four hours and 37 minutes before the debug session found the faulty component, the MBA bug! ;-)
Death by MBA (tm).
Is there anything more known about this political commissar?
Seems the Microsoft owned linkedin.com profile [linkedin.com] won't let out much except this to search engines:
Doesn't seem to like privacy protection schemes either so anyone else that can extract the full data?
I recall some government agency whining about the Google workforce not being diverse enough some time ago. Perhaps anyone else remember where those article are and where to find it?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday August 09 2017, @09:17AM (1 child)
Apparently inclusion works by excluding people. Apparently Google has always been a competitor of Eastasiacorp.
People operations - specialising in engineerectomy.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday August 09 2017, @05:55PM
VP and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, People Operations
means?
Venom-Producer and Chief Diversion & Exclusion Officer, People Oppression operation ? :P
If she gets out of work. I heard Merkel-Feacebook-STASI is hiring again [infowars.com] after a 28 year interruption ;-) Seems it was a mistake to not lookup the Stasi agents like Anetta Kahane, when the wall fell in Europe 1989.