Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai

Re:Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai by tchaffee on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @10:58AM (#14958444)

Expressing opinions that make employees feel less adequate due to their gender is a violation of the CoC. I applaud restricting that kind of speech, as do most companies. At some companies the motivation might be strictly legal, but regardless of the motivation you're going to get fired if you open the company up to future gender discrimination lawsuits.

"many points raised in the memo ... are important topics."

So what? Other points were a violation of the CoC. Goodbye, good luck, see you around the campus!

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Re:Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai by Caveman_Coder on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @08:26PM (#14964388)

So I'd expect every employee posting "The Future is Female" or "#YesAllMen" or something on Memegen/Eng-Misc to be fired as well...but that is not going to happen.

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Re:Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai by tchaffee on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @12:18PM (#14970792)

> but that is not going to happen.

At every company in the world. You aren't seriously expecting a company code of conduct to be applied fairly in some sort of scientifically measurable way? The code of conduct is there to protect against the worst types of behavior, and plenty of bad behavior will slip under the radar. So what? It's not meant to create some sort of utopian workplace. It's meant to create a better workplace for those who have historically been discriminated against. So far, it looks like it has come in handy at least once in a very public way.

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