At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment and Bias Complaints

Re:At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment a... by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @10:12AM (#14401303)

Is this what got Amit Singhal in the first place, perhaps? (EDIT: I guess not, he left fifteen months ago, this list is eight months old.) It's briefly mentioned in this article, but I was shocked less people talked about what the Amit Singhal story meant for Google.

That one of their most senior executives, who at one point rewrote the entire Google Search engine, when that was possible for one person to do, and worked there for sixteen years was fired for sexual harassment.

It's hard to imagine he suddenly started harassing women sixteen years in, so I have to wonder how long Google may have been trying to protect one of their most valuable employees.

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Re:At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment a... by xyzzy_plugh on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @10:34AM (#14401535)

I've worked with my share of jerks and assholes. Rarely have I seen them dealt with. Mean people often know how to manipulate their messaging you avoid punative action. Few places have a zero tolerance policy, they'll just move them somewhere else.

None of the jerks or assholes I've known had anything happen to them, that I am aware of. I'd like to think they'll be fired eventually.

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Re:At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment a... by hetspookjee on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @10:27AM (#14401437)

I think it's reasonable to think that the public awareness contributed to his departure, almost to the extend of being responsible I'd reckon.

I don't think he started suddenly, but rather has done it for a very long time. Being such an immensly valuable asset does buy you slack, I bet.

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Re:At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment a... by Danihan on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @12:22PM (#14402546)

>It's hard to imagine he suddenly started harassing women sixteen years in

Why?

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