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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by vkou on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:59AM (#14955173)
Yet, making it clear that this form of behaviour is acceptable would not be shooting itself in the foot, when it comes to hiring and retaining women?

"Come work for us - where Senior SREs will publicly question whether or not you are capable of doing your job, based on your gender!" does not sound like a great recruiting pitch. Never mind that it is also an incredibly shitty thing to do.

Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by FooHentai on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @04:35AM (#14955768)
>where Senior SREs will publicly question whether or not you are capable of doing your job, based on your gender!

"We put a policy in place that dictates that hiring should be on the basis of something other than capability"

"Oh my god why are employees questioning whether hires were made based on capability or something else?"

Seems pretty reasonable. It is far from the first time this point has been made: https://www.nationalaffairs.com/storage/app/uploads/public/5...

Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by someguydave on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @10:48AM (#14958300)
>"Come work for us - where Senior SREs will publicly question whether or not you are capable of doing your job, based on your gender!"

"Senior SREs will privately doubt you are capable of doing your job, based on your gender/racial hiring preference" sounds so much better?