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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by Kluny on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:31AM (#14955371)
I'm willing to bet there was a better way to do it. He probably just got impatient that he wasn't getting quick enough response, or the response he wanted, through those channels. Anyway, doing something that makes the company look so bad on such a scale as this would be grounds for firing no matter what it was about.
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by dvfjsdhgfv on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:36AM (#14955404)
What really makes Google "bad on such a scale" is actually firing the guy and thereby confirming his "echo chamber" point.
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by Kluny on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:40AM (#14955418)
Would you want that guy on your team? I wouldn't.
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by dvfjsdhgfv on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:47AM (#14955461)
You might not realize but you might already have several similar people on your team, but you'll never know as it's now officially forbidden to even express one's opinion on these matters.
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by chvid on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:56AM (#14955504)
I have been on teams with people having opinions like "that guy" plus some people being vegan communist yoga teachers. And we have been able to get along just fine.

That is how it is and how it has to be in a big company.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by peoplewindow on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @08:43AM (#14957194)
Sure.

He challenges unsupportable mental hangups with data and reason. Fuck yes I'd hire him (and if he lived in a different part of the world I could, because I am a hiring manager for a software engineering team at the moment).

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