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0 pointsdTal8y ago0 comments

Nah, he was fired for drawing negative attention to Google. Whether he was right or not is irrelevant; if you publicly criticise the company you work for, on a "controversial" topic, getting fired is the expected outcome.

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jazzyk8y ago

Google has been doing an excellent job drawing (the wrong kind of) attention to themselves, thank you very much.

High-visibility lawsuits have been brewing already:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/08/google-wo...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/07/google-pa...

weddpros8y ago

An internal memo isn't really the same as "publicly criticizing the company".

zz98158y ago

You are assuming above that the guy that wrote the memo leaked it to the press. I suspect that we all write memos for our work places that could get us fired IF WE LEAKED IT to the press. However, I have seen no mention that the memo author was in fact the person that LEAKED IT. When will Google fire that person or persons?

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